Another first – this time reading a real book in less than 24 hours. I’ve never been a particularly prolific reader, given the way the words don’t really make much sense and swim around on the page, and that by the time I’ve got to the end of a sentence I’ve forgotten where it started. It was Douglas Couplands “Hey Nostradamus!”, so disposable trash, but 240 odd pages of disposable trash in 24 hours, thats an average of 10 pages an hour. Remarkable. I feel all burned out now, time to get back to “Globalization and its discontents”, a somewhat dry look at the IMF from the point of view of an advisor to the World Bank.
HN! is trash, its typical Coupland, character narative, character building incident at begining, study of human interaction and coming to terms with incident throughout book, theres no depth, everyone is so fake, characatures. But its an easy read, and compelling enough to get me through the spaces between snacks on an 11 hour flight.
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