I'm about a quarter into Cory Doctorow's new book Eastern Standard Tribe. It's fun—reminds me of early Neal Stephenson. I dig his use of language and sense of rapid-fire dialogue.
I downloaded the thing onto my PDA and have been reading it from that. I've been slow to try that technology, cuz I didn't think it would be too much fun reading a book on the tiny first-gen monochrome LCD screen of my obsolescent Palm V. But after I took some time to get used to it (about 30 seconds) I realized how jazzed I was by the idea of it. It's so convenient—you can just lose yourself on the bus or train, or escalator in between levels of the tube. A minute here, ten minutes there, to lose myself in someone else's plot. I like it. It's nice.
Gotta run. Today was the fourth time in the last four workdays that someone's popped their head into my office and remarked "hey, Peter, you really look like shit." (Cheers.) Gonna go make a heroic effort at sleeping now.
Posted by case at February 10, 2004 10:35 PMI read his last one like that, it was really cool always having it available to read... unfortunately don't have a mass transit commute anymore, so I don't really have the time to squeeze in little readings like that. which is another reason I need to get out of this godforsaken city.
I'll probably read this one in HTML, since I seem to be in front of a computer 15 hours a day or so. really.
Posted by: jeremy at February 11, 2004 10:04 PM