Author: Michael Gates Gill
01/01/09
This book was okay, I guess. It was a little too schmaltzy and heavy what felt like Starbucks propaganda a lot of the time. The name-dropping from the author's pre-Starbucks life was annoying at times and some of the flashbacks seemed unnecessary. Also, there was a gross abuse of italics.
One thing that I did like though was how Gill portrayed the blue-collar job and the people he worked with. I picked up the book initially because I thought that the idea of a high-powered executive who found himself down on his luck and working at Starbucks was interesting. That aspect of the book was enough to keep me reading and enjoying the book, despite all of the other issues I had with it.
Overall: Not a book that's going to be added to my favorites list anytime soon, but it definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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