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JPod - Douglas Coupland
JPod
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Very evil....very funnyA lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver... show more
Very evil....very funnyA lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. The six JPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod's universe is amoral and shameless - and dizzyingly fast-paced. The characters are products of their era even as they're creating it. Everybody in Ethan's life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. JPod is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781596911048 (1596911042)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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yzombie
yzombie rated it
3.0 JPod
Very funny, particularly if you work in an office environment and can relate. Also fun to read and recognize the Vancouver locales.
Joanne
Joanne rated it
I love this book. Its weird, and funny and completely out there. The characters have such unique conversations and get into situations that are completely strange, but that they accept as normal.
Bookshelf Dreaming
Bookshelf Dreaming rated it
3.0 JPod
Different
Bookparadies
Bookparadies rated it
4.0 Jpod
Gibt es ein schrägeres Buch? Dies war mein erstes Buch von Douglas Coupland und ich wusste im Vorfeld echt nicht worauf ich mich einlassen würde. Es geht darin um PC-Spiel-Entwickler die in einem sogenannten JPod arbeiten. Jeder ist dabei schrulliger als der andere. Die Hauptfigur Ethan, aus deren ...
Hall of Records
Hall of Records rated it
4.0
I enjoyed this book very much. All families are psychotic will forever be my favourite Coupland novel, but I was grinning and laughing through various parts of jPod and found myself nodding in agreement at several of the statements. Especially, the discourse on autism by Ehan’s girlfriend were quite...
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