#1 has been assigned 'The World Is Flat'. For a writing class.
The really funny bit? The book isn't being used as an example of how not to write. That's funny as in,"If I don't laugh, I'll cry'. That kind of funny. I keep trying to read it, and keep having to put it down. I'm afraid I'll be overwhelmed by the urge to give it a toss toward the far wall of the living room, and it might hurt Queen Victoria if my aim is off. Just read this quote in which he discusses the office complex for Infosys:
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"Security is tight,cameras monitor the doors, and if you are working for American Express, you cannot get into the building that is managing services and research for General Electric. Young Indian engineers, men and women, walk briskly from building to building, dangling ID badges. One looked like he could do my taxes. Another looked like she could take my computer apart. And a third looked like she designed it!"
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"...like she designed it!" ? WTF does that mean, exactly? Is the point of that sentence that Friedman can tell at a glance what people do for a living based on their appearance? Or that he is startled beyond belief that a woman could design a computer? The guy's on crack, I swear.
I have rarely seen such a fantastic assortment of mixed metaphors, and even if you manage to figure out what he's trying to say, it's pointless, because his main message seems to be something on the order of 'Boy do I ever love to write simple stuff and try to make it sound Important And Relevent!'.
Argh. I want to review this one. Bleah.
When Poe ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
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