Michael LapiteLapiteitibarenÇubuk, 06760 Çubuk/Ankara, Turchia
One of the creepiest books I've ever read. Beautifully imagined and written, nicely dense with detail, very creative and insidiously frightening. I won't deny that this is a very long book, but it's entirely worth the investment.
Invited to be the writer-in-residence at Heathrow airport for a week, Alain de Botton composed this charming, flippant philosophical missive full of observations we've all made in airports but don't have the insight and eloquence to put on paper. It's a fast read (110+ pages with photographs) dense with pleasing anecdotes so it was all to easy to finish this in one sitting. But I will have to re-read it to fully appreciate all of de Botton's profound observations that go way beyond the airport and traveling, and into everyday life while still remaining (in the author's words) irresponsible, subjective and a bit peculiar.