Jpod

Jpod
I didn’t realise I like Douglas Coupland until I picked up this book, when I then realised that he’d written Generation X … so it appears I am a fan. However I haven’t read any of his books, which is unsurprising.

Jpod didn’t initially appeal because its a thick book, beyond my default ‘under 300 pages’ limit (550 odd eeek!)… however it had pretty pictures of lego-ish men on the cover so that grabbed my attention. As did the book title of ‘jpod’ too. Good title that. I can see why they used it. I flicked through the pages of jpod without reading anything…. just to smell the pages and check out the font, kerning, paragraphs, whitespace and pictures as usual…. immediately I was hit by the layout… very appealing, if like me, you don’t read much, and are turned off by pages and pages of text. This was full of various font sizes and weights and looked just gorgeous. The subject matter was great too, as its about office life, shit marketing departments with daft ideas and a splattering of web related stuff thrown in for good measure. This book could be my life tbh. Bought it, as yet unread. Might read it if I’m bored on holiday.

Train Man

Train Man
Another daft book. But I’m liking these irregular format things, makes browsing more interesting. This is laid out in messageboard format based on conversations from one of Japans busiest forums. I can’t exactly recall if its all fiction or faction, but its different that’s for sure. Check it out. (if you hate reading)

Written in Chinese with english subtitles

The 3.5 lives of Captain Bluebear

The 3.5 lives of Captain Bluebear
This book is as mad as a box of matches! If Eddie Izzard was a book, it would be this one. There’s a lot of pages, which I didn’t like too much, but the formating (layout and whitespace) was good… pictures too! which I was stoked to see. I won’t buy this, but it was such a good find that I had to mention it. Buy if you’re bonkers and have a childs brain (harry potter fans) … its big, yellow and soft backed, which means it’ll crumple at the corners in my bag when I’m travelling. Not good. Still fun tho.

Londonstani

Londonstani
Can’t remember much about this title apart from a good name and a catchy cover. I did like the subject matter. Young asian guy growing up in London, reminded of my friend Darryl, who is a punkistani