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lady_aurora's review against another edition
Initially i was really intrigued with his observations but as I got further into the book they just became a bit excessive, particularly when he digresses in to the footnotes and they become longer than the text.
It was interesting to try a book of this style but sadly I felt like this narrator maybe thinks a wee bit too much
I’d probably give it a
It was interesting to try a book of this style but sadly I felt like this narrator maybe thinks a wee bit too much
I’d probably give it a
kingmantis's review
challenging
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
austinsmart's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
elmreid's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.5
alayna_ummm's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
puli0005's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
2.5
deborahwithanoh's review against another edition
This is most certainly not the type of book I would usually read, and I found it challenging but also fascinating. It's basically an 135-page-long thought experiment that makes you, in turn, think thoughts and ask yourself questions such as, "What on earth is going through MY head every day? Could it possibly be half as interesting?" And here's the thing -- it could! It was pretty fun seeing an entire book devoted to the kind of commonplace, mundane minutiae that I usually dismiss as undeserving of attention or discussion, and having to reevaluate that. The book is, by design, rooted to its era in the everyday life and technology it describes, and it did depress me a little to read these meditations on all these ingenious mechanisms that are now obsolete in favor of sleek soulless technological minimalism. But alas. At least for the next several days, I'm gonna be looking at everything differently. Great book to read on your commute.
wldiv's review against another edition
4.0
hyper-fixation, nostalgia, pondering the history of engineering and architectural design and how that creates the infrastructure that surrounds us; or how i learned to love nicholson baker’s the mezzanine.