I just dropped one of my favorite books in toilet water. It was clean toilet water but still. I have standards. It was Jennifer Government by Max Barry. I’ve read the book previously (my review) but felt the need to re-read it after I finished Company. This gives me an excuse to buy the book it in hardcover instead of my UK paperback. Max Barry is one of my favorite authors which is why I allow myself to re-read his books. Since there are so many books out there waiting to be read, I typically never re-read a book. There’s something new out there waiting to be discovered why go back to something where you already know how it ends.

Luckily, I tend to read more than one book at a time so I still have Susan Henderson’s Up from the Blue to finish which apparently has a book trailer.

So far I am enjoying the book.

William Gibson, of Neuromancer fame, has a new book coming out September 7th, 2010. Apparently Zero History is connected to two of his previous books Pattern Recognition and Spook Country. I really enjoyed Pattern Recognition when I read it a couple of years ago. I thought it was a smart thriller about advertisements and culture. Spook Country is a book I bought but never got around to reading.

I don’t really like the book trailer. The voice over (i.e. William Gibson) sounds under produced and could have just had its levels adjusted to make it sound like he wasn’t speaking so close to the microphone.