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[mindmetoo]

Brought some books to What the Book in Itaewon. You may find these floating on the shelf soon:

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk: Classic Palahniuk but I'm getting the sense he's like the male Margaret Atwood. Both authors seem to have 5 basic character types, 5 basic plot frame works, and just randomly shuffle the deck.

The Search by John Battelle: About Google and the search industry in general. Take an interesting topic, a couple funky companies, add in a seasoned technology writer who can write for the Wired masses, and you're going to get a decent enough book about Google and the search engine biz. But you're also left wanting a lot more. More history on Google. More insights into the background of its founders. More on internal corporate culture. A fine enough read but you get the feeling, aside from a handful of actual interviews, that what you're reading is a bunch of google searches on google, put into the author's own words, and then strung together.

Theatre of Fish by John Gimlette: A combination travel book/history of Newfoundland and Labrador. Gimlette is a semi famous humorous travel writer who had an ancestor who helped explore/settle the Rock. All my life I lived in Canada and little did I know that most Newfoundlanders seem to think they're Canada's whipping boy and are utterly helpless at solving their own problems.

Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon: Somewhat like High Fidelity but not as good. No one has even reviewed this book on Amazon.com.

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami: I didn't mind this one so much. I like how Murakami sort of writes himself into this book.

[livinginkorea]

I've read the last two, pretty good in my opinion. Did you buy them second hand? I haven't been there in a while.

[mindmetoo]