Jennifer Government
Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped...
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Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she's allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale--and everything must go. A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400030927 (1400030927)
Publish date: January 6th 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 321
Edition language: English
Dude, I totally got the point after about ten pages. Talk about beating a dead horse.
In the future no one will want to pay taxes to support the government. Everyone will want all services to be privatized, and they will wear corporate logos to show their brand loyalty. In the future everyone will be a consumer and everything will be a product. In the future there will be artifici...
Bland. The characters were bland, the action was bland, the story was bland. This is a dystopian story about the over corporatization of the world. Of course the corporate world was made a villian as well as the NRA. There was also the cheering for big government that fuels the Left's world.
I found this book very enjoyable, just the right sort of book for me, scarcastic, witty and slightly futuristic. As J D Robb's future shows some hope, this is the future of the corporations with all the power, a situation I can see happening. Nike have a clever marketing plan done by one of their e...
This book had been on my wishlist for a while...so long, in fact, that I had forgotten why I put it on there and what it was about.The little blurb on the cover said it is a cross between Catch-22 and The Matrix. I would say it absolutely had elements of the absurdist satirical humor of Catch-22, t...
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