Charlie Walks Paperback

Charlie’s a funambulist, a tightrope walker, walking between head and heart between city and nature between a good path and a real path a known path and his own between being a hider and being a seeker between life and death living and dying one option and another another another.

The trick is, there’s always more than two options.

That’s where XK-1 comes in, Charlie’s secret project.

A computer program that shows you what you’re supposed to see but can’t imagine.

A machine learning engineer at the biggest technology company in the world who wants to be a writer. Writing letters to his nephew Pauly. Stories from his past from his present from loving from longing from wandering from walking, step by step creating his own story.

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Charlie Walks intricately merges technology and literature, narrating the journey of Charlie, a programmer yearning to be a writer. Bourke’s writing mirrors the voice in one’s head finding expression through a typewriter. Bourke’s novel is a captivating exploration of personal growth, seamlessly blending the realms of programming, writing, and the human experience in a thought-provoking narrative.