I just recently completed Transmission by Hari Kunzru, an interesting novel covering globalization, software, viruses, India, and America. Sean Ryan recommended this fast read, and if it weren’t for the Da Vinci Code getting in the way, I would have read this one in a day or so.
Some interesting insights in Transmission on the forces of globalization and Thomas Friedman-like trends making the world much smaller. Kunrzu writes cleanly, wasting little time in extra description, but his theme rises to the surface in deftly worded character gems that catch you nicely off-guard. At first a few of the characters seem out of place, but the novel ties separate storylines together by the end in an interesting way – not in the plot, but thematically instead.
Edward Tufte has ridiculed Powerpoint Think before (as have others, brilliantly) – but the segments on Guy Swift, up and coming marketing exec, are tightly drawn satires of modern day corporate emptiness. Great stuff.
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