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highly recommended |
Light reading yet thought proving, wonderful conversational style! 
Whether you ever wondered about meaning of it all, or you want to read something light amusing, or want to see places like Seattle, San Diego, and Nashville from the eyes of the writer, or vicariously live the life of a student at University of California, this book is for you!
This book combines elements from good humor, a memoir, a scenic travelogue, a touching love story, science fiction and philosophy.
The author, pretends to be an Artificial Imagination computer program simulating human creativity, describes the life/career journey of a modern nomad through the Hi Tech world of California and Washington (Settle). The book is clever, witty and obviously written by someone very intelligent but still manages to be very down to earth and funny! it's light reading, the author has a conversational style, you feel as if you are reading a letter from a close friend!!
A funny memoir by a fine writer! 
This book takes many life concepts expressed in different forms and combine them in a mishmash. He structures the 12 different personal essays, each highlighting a particular transitional period in his life or a specific experience in to a beautiful collage of experiences in this book very successfully. What a funny memoir!
Kalpanik S. is a fine writer with a lot to say about a lot of things and a unique way of making you laugh! I highly recommend her book.
Refreshing, unexpected, humorous and meaningful
ReKalpanik S. takes us through his arrival in USA as a student and subsequent travel to several places - San Francisco, Seattle, Nashville, and San Diego. In each places, he focuses on similar aspect of his life as a technologist and an immigrant - acceptance by local people, standing out as a ethnic minority and foreign born, life as a technology execuitve and family life. In addition, he covers local food, people, culture and sources of enjoyment, joy, and finally, and his quest for love and balance.
He adds so much meaning, passion and humor, he is so open with the readers that I felt like I was reading a private letter that someone would write only to their best friends.
The writing is refreshingly unexpected, humorous and meaningful. Great read!!
AMAZING COMBINATION!!!,
As a travelogue, Welcome to the USA is pretty good, Kalpanik certainly made me think about wanting to go to San Diego, Seattle and Nashville.
as a character. Kalpanik seems simultaneously incredibly thoughtful and serious and yet someone who has a carefree attitude towards life, someone who handle life as it happens!
It's a light reading, and yet thoughtful; funny yet serious; conversational yet literary!
An Absolute Joy to Read!!
This is the story of a brilliant young man who seems to be always on the move, moving from one interesting city to the other.
At the beginning, the author leaves New Delhi for US, where he is awarded a fellowship to study at University of California, but he gets caught into culture shock, as well as an internal dilemma, seeking a deeper meaning of life. While he is most vulnerable, he manages to fall in love with one his student but is unable to express his feelings.
Then he seems to have gone through the roller coaster ride of the technology industry emerging as a winner, a successful technologist leading a group of innovators.
We end in beautiful San Diego, with a moving story about how the author and his family face the Inferno, the great wildfires of 2007.
I don't believe anyone has experienced living unless they have ventured around like the author has. It is in his narratives, his reaction to the challenges he faces and his observations of people and culture of various places that he truly shines.
It is my top read of the year!
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A young man full of hope and aspirations who travels to a new world.
A technology whiz kid who becomes a Silicon Valley executive by age 33. An old world romantic confused by the definition of love in the brave new world.
A true story so imaginative and incredible that no fiction writer could have thought of it.
It begins as a story of ambitions, aspirations and young love at the University of California in 1987. It unfolds in the fast moving world of Hi-Tech industry in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Seattle. From there, we take a detour through Nashville to sample the software industry there, and then get back to Southern California, where we hold our breath as our narrator survives the infamous wildfires.
Technology. Art. Wit. Literature. Humor. Imagination. They all come together in this wonderful tale of man's journey though space, time, life and love.
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