Welcome to California (Kindle Edition)

by Kalpanik S. (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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A beautiful university campus in California.

A foreign born who has traveled thousand of miles at the young age of 21 with an ambition to design computers which can imagine.

A young female student who needs help finishing her assignments for her programming class.

An old world romantic confused by the new definition of love in the brave new world.

A true story which is better than any fiction.

It begins as a story of an ambitious young man traveling to a land far away from his home to fulfill his ambitions. It unfolds in the fast moving technology world of Silicon Valley.

From there we hop to San Francisco and land in Southern California, where we hold our breath as our narrator survives the infamous wildfires.

Technology. Art. Wit. Ambition. Humor. Imagination. They all come together in this wonderful tale of a man's journey though space, time, life and love.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1323 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
• Publisher: Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc.; First edition (June 7, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001AVG3ZY
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #90,441 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC! Extraordinary!!, June 23, 2008

By	Don Harrison "Top reviewer" (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book starts as a sweet story of a foreign born student who is struggling to adapt to a new culture, missing home and trying to find a balance between the demands of his academic life, and who falls in love. This part of the book shows us Kalpanik as a vulnerable foreign born student, a young person. This beginning provides a good background, and serves as a contrast to the rest of the book, wher we see Kalpanik as an confident executive with a carefree attitude.

Kalpanik is an amazing writer with extraordinarily talent for combining simplicity with complexity and sophistication, writing thoughtful and meaningful material into a book which still comes out as light reading!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh, unique, humorous, vivid and clever writing!, June 24, 2008

By	Janet (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

Kalpanik's style is fresh, unique, funny (in a dignified way), vivid and clever. For example, the author successfully anthropomorphizes the state of California! While I have not read another of his other books - I look forward to discovering them in the near future

Being an immigrant myself, I read it with the occasional tear in the eye and several bouts of goosebumps. Words are not enough to describe the feelings of transcendence, enlightenment and plain joy I experienced read this narrative.

Definitely a Must Read!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kalpanik is like the coolest friend you always desired to be!, June 22, 2008

By	Ci Ci Jin (Seychelles) - See all my reviews

The story is engrossing and the writing is skillful. I couldn't put it down, Kalpanik is like the cool best friend you always wanted to be like. I read about this book briefly in a magazine article earlier this year and decided to order it since, I was in the process of moving to California.

What I found captivating about the book was Kalpanik's honesty and frankness. From his hopes, ambitions, accomplishments, to his failures, mistakes and his embarrassing desires, he reveals so much about himself in this book. His writing is complex, and yet very simple! TOugh to describe that feeling, but it is very enjoyable!

Highly recommended!