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...watching the latest Bollywood movies. No reason to worry about any of this, right? There isn't as long as you don't read Hari Kunzru's new novel, Transmission, in which an unhappy Indian programmer is driven by job insecurity and his obsession with a Bollywood starlet to write a vicious computer virus and unleash it on the world. The misadventures of this renegade geek-along with those of the starlet, her mother, a shallow London marketing executive, his promiscuous girlfriend, a couple of xenophobic European bureaucrats and a Korean society devoted to an online fantasy game-combine...
...Transmission is Kunzru's follow-up to his debut novel, The Impressionist, which described the life of a half-English, half-Indian protagonist in colonial India. The success of that book-and the million dollar-plus advance the author reportedly received to write it-made Kunzru, now 34, one of the world's hot young authors. That has turned out not to be a curse. Half-English, half-Indian himself, Kunzru, a former technology writer for Wired magazine, has emerged as that rare phenomenon: a promising young author who exceeds his initial promise with his second novel...
...Good men do not have to explain themselves, just as good Presidents do not have to write books to shape their legacy or justify their deeds. A person's actions speak for themselves. Jerry Garber San Antonio...
...great. The deficit was eliminated. No devastating wars. No killings. I'd vote for him again if he could run - and I'm an old-time Republican. Ellen Ruark Southbury, Connecticut, U.S. Good men do not have to explain themselves, just as good Presidents do not have to write books to shape their legacy or justify their deeds. A person's actions speak for themselves. Jerry Garber San Antonio, Texas, U.S. How I miss Clinton's intelligent, thoughtful and truly compassionate leadership. He has the kind of genuine concern that pays more than lip service to the needs...
...open-ended essay question on something “meaningful.” Most students place what they remember of the experience in that box of bad high school memories alongside taking the SATs, making science fair projects and finding a prom dress. However, for me, deciding what to write about in my college essay was a no-brainer: the New York Yankees...