Billy’s Reviews

What if one device could help you navigate anywhere in the U.S. and Canada, while offering travel tips, storing your favorite tunes and photos, providing translation assistance, and more? That device is here, and it’s not much bigger than a deck of cards. The Garmin nuvi 350 is set to revolutionize what we expect from [...]

Generation X by Douglas Coupland is a book that took my years to read. I initially thought “who the hell is this guy that thinks he is the spokeman for my generation?”. I was a little wrong, after the hype wore off I found that Douglas was not interested in being any kind of spokeperson [...]

Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland is a bit of an inside look at the life of Beauty Pageants and the life around the stage moms in the business. In the opening of Miss Wyoming Susan Colgate, our main chracter who is an actress somehow is the only survivor of a plane crash and she lives [...]

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland is a great book for looking back at the tech bubble of the 1990s. Microserfs follows a few main characters from coding at Microsoft to getting involved in a horribly underfunded startup in Silicon Valley. Microsoerfs is full of injokes about technology and with the pace that tech changes it can [...]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is one of the great American novels of the 20th century. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer prize in 1940 for the Grapes of Wrath. The story is about a family for Oklahoma, the Joads that are forces from there farm during the dustbowl of the great depression becuase [...]

On the Road was the book that launched the beat generation into international prominence in the 1950′s. The story although not autobiographical, was still a reflection on a part of Jack Kerouac’s life. The narrator of the story Sal travels back and forth across the US by car and train moving in and out of [...]