Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

it's like microserfs and the davinci code had a baby, and that baby grew up playing on reddit and reading the oatmeal and smbc cartoons, and got a useless art degree.

generally speaking, the story is nice and fun with just enough “wink wink but really though” sage advice to give it substance. it does flag somewhere in the middle, not entirely sure why. i think it makes the mystery so compelling from the very start that it has difficulty sustaining it while other parts of the story develop. but it does pick up and deliver a pretty satisfying reveal.

if you meet 3 or more of the following criteria, you will enjoy this book:

-you can identify 5 or more fonts by name
-use a mac
-are interested in art and DIY
-read wired pretty regularly
-aspire to live the lives portrayed in the social network.