When you think intrigue, excitement, passion and the playful thrill of watching an average guy pull off a clever caper that makes him into a multi-millionaire -- no doubt the creation of Facebook immediately comes to mind.
While most economically depressed Americans, even those who have Facebook accounts, would probably look at a huge silver spoon-fed tool like Mark Zuckerberg and want to punch him in the throat, Ben Mezrich -- the official hagiographer of the Ivy League douchebag set -- looks at him and sees both genius and an opportunity for personal advancement.
Mezrich, a Harvard grad, is the Brett Ratner of the literary world -- a guy who's made a small fortune off writing books which mythologize the rich kid rules-are-for-pussies spirit that, one would imagine, is still very popular right about now. He penned Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions --which was made into the movie 21 and later was debunked as largely being fiction -- Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions, and Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai.
See a pattern?
Now Mezrich is apparently writing a book based on the wild and wacky events that led fellow Harvard alumnus Zuckerberg to create Facebook (Spoiler Alert: He came up with the idea to help him and his buddies get laid), thereby making himself obscenely rich while making the rest of us slaves to the need to seek out old high school friends we otherwise probably would've spent the rest of our lives not missing.
What's more, Mezrich's book proposal has reportedly already merged with a Facebook movie project that will be adapted by -- God, I wish I were making this up -- Aaron Sorkin.
If this whole thing succeeds -- in other words, if people want to pay what little money they have left to hear about a narcissistic frat-boy who's rolling in cash at the age of 24 -- look for the all-but-guaranteed sequel:
Space Balls: The Totally True, Not Embellished One Bit Story of MySpace Creator "Tom" and His Rise to Global Idol Status Among Teen Illiterates, written by Ben Mezrich and directed by Uwe Boll.
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