Archive for October, 2007

The Braindead Megaphone

October 24th, 2007 / 1 comment

See the rest of this year’s listings • What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
№50
Title: The Braindead Megaphone [$]
Author: George Saunders
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2007
Pages: 272
Let me preface this review by saying that despite his ostensible fame—Genius Grant and all that—I’d never heard of George Saunders (or at least not insofar as I remembered him the next [...]

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Microserfs

October 23rd, 2007 / No comments

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№49
Title: Microserfs [$]
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 1996
Pages: 384
So soon after I read Show Stopper!, my literary travels once again take me back to Microsoft… sort of. Microserfs is a fictional story of a group of Microsoft refugees who flee [...]

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Friday Random Ten CXXIX

October 5th, 2007 / No comments

The “moving tomorrow” edition.

Silverchair - [Freak Show #09] Learn To Hate
Various Artists - [String Quartet Tribute To Incubus #10] Insomnia
Dalek - [Abandoned Language #10] Tarnished
Ben Folds - [Rockin' the Suburbs #06] The Ascent Of Stan
Jellyfish - [Spilt Milk #12] Brighter Day
Änglagård - [Buried Alive #05] Vandringar I Vilsenhet
Solefald - [Black For Death - An Icelandic [...]

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