Bellwether - Connie Willis This is a very witty novel about workplace culture, the academic culture, and how trends become trends. It also served to remind me that humankind has always been pretty ridiculous when it comes to vanity and ego. This present culture is no exception to the norm. I love Willis's other books and this one is most closely like To Say Nothing of the Dog in term of humor and close observance of human nature, of which I think Willis is a master. This has a SciFi label on the spine (if you get it from the library, as I did), but I didn't find any traces of that in it, unless you count that the main character is a scientist of fads and their inception. This had a humour that appealed to me (think a more sciencey/nerdy Office Space or The Office) and an observant outlook on life that appealed to me as well.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Bellwether - Connie Willis This is a very witty novel about workplace culture, the academic culture, and how trends become trends. It also served to remind me that humankind has always been pretty ridiculous when it comes to vanity and ego. This present culture is no exception to the norm. I love Willis's other books and this one is most closely like To Say Nothing of the Dog in term of humor and close observance of human nature, of which I think Willis is a master. This has a SciFi label on the spine (if you get it from the library, as I did), but I didn't find any traces of that in it, unless you count that the main character is a scientist of fads and their inception. This had a humour that appealed to me (think a more sciencey/nerdy Office Space or The Office) and an observant outlook on life that appealed to me as well.
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