Pure Lesevergügen!

I do not know how it is with you, but when it comes to a book or to a bookstore in a book, then I have to read it. I have not even know what it is exactly, I'll buy it myself. Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore was no exception, fortunately, because I love this book!

Clay Jannon loses his job as a Web designer. To earn more money, he takes a job in Mr. Penumbras 24 hours a bookstore; a bookstore, which is never closed, surprisingly few modern books sold, but large audiences of a strange audience. Clay quickly realizes that here something unusual is going on and decides the matter to get to the bottom. Together with his friends and his girlfriend, who works at Google, he plunges into a mysterious world in which it is about nothing less than immortality.

The book jumps between old bookshelves and the Silicon Valley back and forth. It creates a symbiosis between ancient knowledge and new technologies. And although I was surprised that Google and the possibilities of the art of today play such an important role in a book that actually should revolve around a bookstore, I was quickly enthusiastic about the idea and have the sections on Google almost rather read than on the bookstore.

Sloan has a talent for telling stories. The action is so fast ahead that it never gets boring. The short chapters lead to the typical behavior Only one chapter so you get the book by Ruck-Zuck. The characters are all sympathetic, eccentric and so all its own: the old, opaque Mr. Penumbra; Clay, actually unsuccessful, but funny and geeky through and through, his friend Mat, successful, creative and helpful and Kat, who loves her job at Google and their visions can not go far enough.

It is a book about friendship, a book cult, immortality, geeks, nerds, the past and the future. A book that the printed knowledge in books as well as celebrating the achievements of the technologies of today. There is neither a good nor a bad, the new options are not demonized, while the old is preserved. I've just felt comfortable in the vertical bookstore, as in the ultramodern Google offices. Mr. Penumbra brings all together, those who love the smell of real books, and that those who can not be expected in the future rather pick up the Ebook, those who like to indulge in the past and. The whole paired Sloan with a scavenger hunt and old, dark secrets, Fantasy meets reality.

Buy, read, have fun and maybe rethink his worldview a little

5 of 5 stars for this journey between old and new.

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind But I hope you will remember this.:
A man walking down a dark almost lonely street. Quick Steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book Exactly, Exactly at the right time.