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Watch-related book tip: Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
Sep 23, 2018,11:30 AM
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
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Watch-related book tip: Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
By: donizetti : September 23rd, 2018-11:30
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!
By: KMII : September 23rd, 2018-11:34
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: TheMadDruid : September 23rd, 2018-13:04
By the way-try Allen Kurzweil: "The Grand Complication" and "A Case of Curiosities" if you want "watch" novels.
I never have time for a book
By: Larry Seiden : October 8th, 2018-19:23
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!