Category: books
Pattern Recognition recognized
I finished reading “Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson (first published 2003) – thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended. It is less sci-fi furturistic than his early works. The story revolves around a quest to find the maker of a series of enigmatic online videos that rocked a certain corner of the cyberspace inhabited by otakus, industrial…
Jet Lag / Lost In A Moment
I am reading “Pattern Recognition” – a sci-fi-ish fiction by William Gibson. His style in describing all things near-futuristic can sometimes be abstract, to say the least. But it surely beats something that reads like a fanboy’s wish lists of next-generation gadgets. The main character is a media consultant who is psychologically “allergic” to certain…
Haute Cuisine without Mao Zedong
For the trip to Mexico, I picked up Fuchsia Dunlop’s sweet-sour memoir – “Shark’s fin and Sichuan pepper” at JFK. I have read her article(s) in some travel/food magazines before, but did not realize the full extent of her immersion in Chinese food culture. I will post more about her book here. When I saw…