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JPod - Douglas Coupland
JPod
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Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal... show more
Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is being invaded by marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and the rise of China. Everybody in both worlds seems to inhabit a moral grey zone, and nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland himself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780747585879 (0747585873)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 564
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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