I wandered down to Borders today and actually sat through the entire reading of Douglas Coupland's latest book All Families are Psychotic in 4 hours. I didn't plan to but I couldn't put the book down, so I really read it. No skimming. After that, there was no need to buy that book so I bought Tracy Kidder's House instead. Basically this book traces the building of a house from architectural floor plans down to the minute details in fictional form. And I still haven't read Soul of a New Machine,a previous book which I bought by this same author.