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false <![CDATA[So Yesterday]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258043266m/24763.jpg 24763 11 Ever wonder who was the first kid to keep a wallet on a big chunky chain, or wear way-too-big-pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards? These are the Innovators, the people on the very cusp of cool. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Braque's job is finding them for the retail market. But when a big-money client disappears, Hunter must use all his cool-hunting talents to find her. Along the way he's drawn into a web of brand-name intriguea missing cargo of the coolest shoes he's ever seen, ads for products that don't exist, and a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism as we know it. 1853833 book 2004 So Yesterday total:1899|5:450|4:623|3:567|2:204|1:55| 1899 6906 2744 290 5 3 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 12:40:35 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 09 17:41:15 -0800 2009
He meets a girl named Jen, an Innovator (explained in the book), and she ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Mar 09 09:41:39 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:40:02 -0700 2009 1
At the zenith, we have the Innovators. These are the first ones to do something new - rock a backwards baseball cap, get two piercings in one ear, wear boots on the outside of their pants. "When you meet them, most Innovators don't look that cool, n...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Dec 31 13:09:12 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 10:33:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Aug 27 15:42:54 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 16:02:51 -0700 2008 The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, with cool teen characters, and an over-the-top mystery involving super cool shoes and purple-dye sabotage!
Hunter is on the hunt for coolness and innovations, so when he sees Jen, with her ska...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:18:26 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 13:21:42 -0800 2008
The too aptly named Hunter, is a self-professed "cool hunter", someone who seeks out the latest...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 18:26:06 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 18:26:58 -0700 2007 PopCo, which is odd, because I didn’t pick up either book because I was interested in the subject—secret societies banding together to sabotage large corporations and dilute the evil brainwashing of marketing campaigns—I was curious about the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 21:36:42 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 21:37:08 -0800 2009
Review: This book reminded me a lot of Feed, which is an all-t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:11:08 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:13:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 10:15:15 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 10:20:39 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 21:08:27 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 21:09:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 14 15:10:08 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 22:14:22 -0700 2009 best book Scott Westerfeld has written. I'm not sure why I think so...Maybe because it was so different than all the other books he's written. First of all, it's a stand-alone novel, which felt kind of nice. Secondly, it's not fantasy or scien...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 23:40:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 18:38:19 -0700 2009 1
This book was certainly very different from other books I've read in the past. Hunter, the main character, is an excellent narrator and provides an origina...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 16:13:46 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 16:27:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 17:27:09 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 22:57:27 -0700 2009
The theme centers around advertising, lemming behavior, teenage lust for the latest thing, etc. He ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:54:51 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 21:58:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 11:24:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 00:57:32 -0700 2009 1 Peeps and Last Days, the first in the New York trilogy that all three are in. I'm going to skip what the book is about, because hell, you're on a book website. I'm sure you can figure it out.

What I liked about this book was Westerfeld's random bu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 19:05:16 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 06:24:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 18:38:49 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 10:33:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 08:35:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 08:44:51 -0800 2009
It's entertaining and very, very funny in parts. Not perfect, but a classic Westerfeld.

Have you ever wondered about how fashion trends start? This gives a comical look (from a te...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 04 16:18:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:21:56 -0700 2009
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