概況
“Facebook的創立，一個關於性，金錢，天才和背叛的故事”，《意外的億萬富翁》的封面上這樣顯目的寫著。本・麥茲里奇的小說《意外的億萬富翁》被改編成電影《社交網路》，故事源於網站facebook的創始人馬克・扎克伯格和埃德華多・薩瓦林Facebook的創立。
可惜的是，該書暫時並沒有出中文版。
該書的英文版信息：
DOUBLEDAY
Copyright © 2009 by Ben Mezrich
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a
division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random
House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
www doubleday com
DOUBLEDAY and the DD colophon are registered trademarks
of Random House, Inc.
Cataloging - in - Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress.
eISBN: 978- 0 -385 -53219 - 8
該書的英文版目錄：
CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S NOTE 1
CHAPTER 1 | OCTOBER 2003 2
CHAPTER 2 | HARVARD YARD 8
CHAPTER 3 | ON THE CHARLES 17
CHAPTER 4 | CANNIBALISTIC CHICKENS 25
CHAPTER 5 | THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER 2003 31
CHAPTER 6 | LATER THAT EVENING 38
CHAPTER 7 | WHAT HAP PEN S NEXT 41
CHAPTER 8 | THE QUAD 43
CHAPTER 9 | THE CONN ECTION 48
CHAPTER 10 | NOVEMBER 25, 2003 53
CHAPTER 11 | CAMBRIDGE, 1. 58
CHAPTER 12 | JANUARY 14, 2004 65
CHAPTER 13 | FEBRUARY 4, 2004 70
CHAPTER 14 | FEBRUARY 9, 2004 77
CHAPTER 15 | AMERICAN IDOL 83
CHAPTER 16 | VERITAS 95
CHAPTER 17 | MARCH 2004 103
CHAPTER 19 | SPRING SEMESTER 118
CHAPTER 20 | MAY 2004 125
CHAPTER 21 | serendipity 129
CHAPTER 22 | California Dreaming 135
CHAPTER 23 | henley ON THE THAMES 145
CHAPTER 24 | JULY 28 , 2004 150
CHAPTER 25 | SAN FRANCISCO 155
CHAPTER 26 | OCTOBER 2004 166
CHAPTER 27 | DECEMBE R 3, 2004 172
CHAPTER 28 | APRIL 3, 2005 176
CHAPTER 29 | APRIL 4, 2005 180
CHAPTER 30 | WHAT GO ES AROUND … 183
CHAPTER 31 | JUNE 2005 186
CHAPTER 32 | THREE MONTHS LATER 192
CHAPTER 33 | CEO 196
CHAPTER 34 | MAY 2008 198
EPILOGUE | WHERE ARE THEY NOW …? 200
SECONDARY SOURCES 203
英文版第一章
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The Accidental Billionaires is a dramatic, narrative account based on
dozens of interviews, hundreds of sources, and thousands of pages of
documents, including re cords from several court proceedings.
There are a number of different―and often contentious ―opinions about
some of the events that took place. Trying to paint a scene from the
memories of dozens of sources―some direct witnesses, some indirect ―
can often lead to discrepancies. I re - created the scenes in the book based
on the information I uncovered from documents and interviews, and my
best judgment as to what version most closely fits the documentary
record. Other scenes are written in a way that describes individual
perceptions without endorsing them.
I have tried to keep the chronology as close to exact as possible. In some
instances, details of settings and descriptions have been changed or
imagined, and identifying details of certain people altered to protect their
privacy. Other than the handful of public figures who populate this story,
names and personal descriptions have been altered.
I do employ the technique of re - created dialogue. I have based this
dialogue on the recollections of participants of the substance of
conversations. Some of the conversations recounted in this book took
place over long periods of time, in multiple locations, and thus some
conversations and scenes were re- created and compressed. Rather than
spread these conversations out , I sometimes set these scenes in likely
settings.
I address sources more fully in the acknowledgments, but it is appropriate
here to thank in particular Will McMullen for introducing me to Eduardo
Saverin, without whom this story could not have been written. Mark
Zuckerberg, as is his perfect right, declined to speak with me for this
book despite numerous requests.
