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Watch-related book tip: Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
Hi all,
I just read this on the plane and can heartily recommend it. I have never read a fiction book with this much watch content - the author is clearly a fellow sufferer. The story is a satirical view of US society at the time of the Trump election, where the protagonist takes off after a fight with his wife on a Greyhound bus tour of the country with a roll-on containing part of his huge watch collection. Includes discussions of winders, bauhaus dials, early Journes, Excel spreadsheets to take care of daily seconds lost or gained, the works. I assume the writing won’t be to everyone’s taste (it is a little “Bonfire of the vanities”-like) but I enjoyed that too.
Best
Andreas
Watch-related book tip: Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
Hi all, I just read this on the plane and can heartily recommend it. I have never read a fiction book with this much watch content - the author is clearly a fellow sufferer. The story is a satirical view of US society at the time of the Trump election, wh...
Thanks for the tip!
Tried another book of his ages ago and it didn’t gel but will certainly have a look. Both authors and our tastes change
Thanks for this.
By the way-try Allen Kurzweil: "The Grand Complication" and "A Case of Curiosities" if you want "watch" novels.
Congratulations on completing JerseyHenge and becoming a druid!
Happy Autmnal Equinox!
I just got it from my local library,
I noticed watches were mentioned about 3 pages into it. Looking forward to finishing it.
I never have time for a book
Unless I’m on vacation. I’m loving this book not for unsympathetic characters, but for the way it flows forward and backward (like a rotor) and of course, all the watch content. Gary Shteyngart is my newly discovered brother!