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Kindle Edition
Publisher: Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc.
Colin Zheng
Format: Kindle Book
SPECIAL PRICE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, TWO WEEKS ONLY! -------------------------------------------------------------------- This book is written by a former Amazon.com technologist. Seattle, a medley of lush green hills surrounded by snow capped mountains and sparking blue waters. "Congo.com", a company transforming itself from an online retailer to a selling platform and taking the stock market by storm led by a a CEO who is not afraid to act as goofy as a 10 year old. In the middle of this lands a former Silicon Valley executive who moves to Seattle looking for and opportunity for innovation and adventure. It begins as a story of a technologist leaving Silicon Valley for Seattle to part of a large dot-com. It unfolds into a moving story capturing the beauty of Seattle, its interesting people and culture, giving us an inside scoop of the dot-com world. Adventure. Humor. Wit. Imagination. Technology. Innovation. They all come together very nicely in Seattle Adventures.
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| Memoirs of working for an e-commerce company |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (1/09)
In "Seattle Adventures," the author is an executive in the software industry in the Silicon Valley. After ten years of employment there, downsizing forces him to relocate to Seattle to work for an e-commerce company which he refers to as Congo.com. This book tells his story of the experiences that he has working for this company. He discovers that there is a huge discrepancy in how employees are treated here versus in the Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, it isn't a positive change.
Kalpanik enjoys being introduced to the Seattle culture. His thoughts venture off into areas like the uniqueness of women with tattoos and men with piercings. Much of his discussions about his experiences in Seattle are quite entertaining and he backs them up with stories with photographs. It is obvious that he journeyed there with an open mind and was therefore able to more fully appreciate Seattle's identity.
Because of his disappointment in the way his employer treats him, after a time, he decides that it is time to move on to the next adventure. So Kalpanik goes off to discover Nashville and all that it has to offer. Once again, his views are very entertaining and also insightful. I really enjoyed reading Seattle Adventures" by Kalpanik S. and would definitely recommend it to others.
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| Silly and Sophisticated at the same time! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a memoir of a successful foreign born technology executive who moved to Seattle to work for Amazon.com after spending more than a decade in Silicon Valley. Apprehensive and unsure of what he'd find, he is nevertheless a risk taker, admirable and somewhat naive.
What I found most endearing about "Seattle Adventures" was Kalpanik's sense of humor--it's simple and yet complex, silly and yet sophisticated all at the same time! From page 1, I was drawn into his writing style. He is clear, mysterious, funny and the occasionally poetic and creates a diverse writing style.
I recommend this book, it's wonderful.
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| A very interesting short book! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Man, this is a great story! Funny, cute, descriptive and illustrated, with pictures adding a thousand words. I got glued to the story once I started reading it, enjoying every detail and only got up once I finished this short book.
Cherubs don't come out of the heavens, but author's happiness at finding peace and acceptance in Seattle comes out pretty clear. So I will say that he was very effective as any other at describing his story of transitioning to yet another land, while also transitioning across midlife.
Highly recommended.
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| A fun read, Humorous Seattle memoirs of someone determined to live his life and have a good time. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The book is a fun read and reminds me of the things that many men of author's age tend to go through around career, job, family, realization of their children growing to be adults, and how deftly he handled those issues. I wish men in my life could have handled them as bravely and with as much fun as author was able to.
He seems to be a guy who is self-assured, and determined to live his life to the fullest. I keep reflecting back on so many of the points he made about Seattle and his life and things that he learned and trying to apply them to my own life. His vivid description of Seattle, specially in summers made me plan spending my next vacation in Seattle!
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| A fun read, Humorous memoirs of Seattle by someone determined to live his life and have a good time. |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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The book is a fun read and reminds me of the things that many men of author's age tend to go through around career, job, family, realization of their children growing to be adults, and how deftly he handled those issues. I wish men in my life could have handled them as bravely and with as much fun as author was able to.
He seems to be a guy who is self-assured, and determined to live his life to the fullest. I keep reflecting back on so many of the points he made and things that he learned and trying to apply them to my own life.
I am convinced that his literary talent is likely to keep his work in print for a very long time. This book is destined to be a best seller, to rise to the top of the list!
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