what are we reading?

[SteveDallas]

Originally posted by Chewbaccus
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. For the uninitiated, Microserfs is quite possibly the chronicle of early 90's geek culture. The book is written like a journal, telling the story of Daniel Underwood, a bug checker for Microsoft, who's been having trouble sleeping, so he starts the journal to find out why and it snowballs. Fun read.

Excellent. I also enjoyed "Shampoo Planet," also by Coupland. I like both of those more than "Generation X," the novel that coined the name we all know and lo{v|ath}e.

[Oddly enough, Microserfs is probably the only novel my dad has read in 40 years. I've never seen the man with a piece of fiction in his hands, and he once told me he had to take freshman English four times before he passed it in college, so it was a great surprise to me when he & mom were visiting a couple years ago and he picked up Microserfs and started reading it. My mom got hold of Tales of the City on the same trip, and when I asked her how she liked it, she said, "Well, I never knew there were so many perverts in the world."]

I just started "On Basilisk Station," the first book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Weber came to my attention primarily because his publisher, Baen Books, also publishes Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan books, and I was poking around their web site. Too early to tell if I like it.