That is way cool! What's weird is I just read a really funny novel called JOE PERK, about a guy like Michael Breach, who goes to NYC to win a barista championship. Sort of Midnight Cowboy (but about coffee instead of sex). Life imitates art or art imitates life?

There's a funny novel about banana's and their sordid (United Fruit Company, CIA, "banana republic") past called THE BANANA MASSACRE which, along the way, gives a lot of insight to the production and cultivation of "the blood fruit." Well worth a read and for a chuckle.

There is a hilarious breakdown of Gilligan's Island's characters as the 7 Deadly Sins in the novel BIRDBRAIN. Oh, and Bill Murray's in it too. Sort of.

A very interesting quasi-alternative history novel is THE BLOVIATOR which tells the true last 6 months in the life of Pres. Harding but also intermingles a very cool subplot of "what if the First Lady, the much more capable and clever Florence Harding, ran for president when Harding is forced out of the race?" It also gives a few very interesting insights into how Harding really died, why why http://www.amazon.com/Bloviator-Adultery-Corruption-Superstition-President/dp/1475279531/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389472347&sr=1-1&keywords=the+bloviator

It was good until he proposed. Talk about a downer ending.

I say: "Down with Galt, up with Thomassoulo!" I just read the ultimate anti-Ayn Rand novel called BASTARDO. It's written as humor, and I don't propose that, but when faced with all of this "Atlas Shrugged" style selfishness it's a refreshing change to read something that takes Ayn Rand and Rand Paul to task.