Friday, August 26, 2011

Currently

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, Ben Mezrich

This week: 132 pages

Sentences of the week:
  1. "It wasn't until about seventy-two hours later that Mark found out exactly what he'd done." The Accidental Billionaires
  2. "Eduardo closed his eyes, imagining the tiny packets of information ricocheting out into the world, whizzing down copper tubing and bouncing off of orbiting satellites, ripping through the ether, tiny bursts of electric genius leaping from computer to computer like synaptic flashes in a vast, worldwide nervous system." The Accidental Billionaires
  3. "Summers shook his head. His jowls reverberated with the motion, like fleshy waves in a swirling epidermal storm." The Accidental Billionaires 
My favorite sentence this week is by far number 3 . I laughed out loud when I read it because I picture Summers as a fleshy, pale man with a gut and beady eyes that gaze into their onlooker's soul. It's hilarious that the author compared Summer's jowls to waves in an ocean storm. The imagery created from the simile is so vivid that I can easily imagine Summer's almost comical appearance.

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