Globalization. Modified technology. Personality Disorders. Human life. Half-truths. Potatoes.This book was kind of a slow-paced for me. John Sharpe, the main character and narrator of the story drives along the Ring Road while taking us (the readers) into his different experiences and adventures while he was growing up, childhood to adolescence to manhood.There were a lot of deceiving information throughout the story. John would narrate it as if it really had happened but later reveal that it wasn't true. Tim Pears made me realize easy it is to deceive one's perception through ideal storytelling. Wake up, man!Simultaneous. There wasn't really a direct timeline being followed but it somehow made this book more interesting than it is.