JPod

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• When Ronald McDonald did dirty deeds

  JPod by Douglas Coupland Bloomsbury £12.99, pp449 Douglas Coupland is neither a master of plot, nor of characterisation. However, when on form, he is possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today. Since his remarkable ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  JPod by Douglas Coupland (Bloomsbury, £7.99) Since the publication of his cult classic, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland has attempted to do for computer geeks what Dickens did for poor clerks and scriveners. His current novel is swollen to truly Dickens ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

7 Reviews

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  It has a few funnies here and there, but this book tries sooo hard to be clever and quirky.

  Very disappointing.

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  Halfadrop said on Feb 24, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Oh how I laughed! Loved it!
  The story centers around a video game development employee, Ethan, and his co-workers. The book is pretty random, and the plot slightly ridiculous but if you treat this book lightly and try not to try to find meaning in it, it's alot of fun! I recommend it, I mean ... (continue)

  Oh how I laughed! Loved it!
  The story centers around a video game development employee, Ethan, and his co-workers. The book is pretty random, and the plot slightly ridiculous but if you treat this book lightly and try not to try to find meaning in it, it's alot of fun! I recommend it, I mean, come one! A edible stapler? LOL

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  YAappreciation said on Aug 5, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I kept reading this because it was a gift, and because it was hyped up to be such a great book, but like any lame joke it kept building up and getting sillier and sillier, and the punchline never came.

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  Timja said on Jul 16, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The first real picture of a working environment I had ever read!!!
  Silly, unconventional, crazy, hilarious, sarcastic EXCELLENT. Thanx 2 KIA

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  Marco said on Aug 30, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  When "Microserfs" hit, I was enthralled. It said a lot about my life: popular culture as I was a sprawling 20-something working with computers? C'est moi; second helping, please. Today, "jPod". I'm still in the same line of work, still surrounded by wonderful autists and Coupland sniffs most of the ... (continue)

  When "Microserfs" hit, I was enthralled. It said a lot about my life: popular culture as I was a sprawling 20-something working with computers? C'est moi; second helping, please. Today, "jPod". I'm still in the same line of work, still surrounded by wonderful autists and Coupland sniffs most of the air out off that atmosphere.

  The twists and turns of the book are otherworldly, even Monty Pythonesque, and I shan't give any away. Wikipedia will give you the plot. I'll just say that I think Coupland's existential ponderings are interesting kicks and that I loved some of the characters; Ethan's mom scared me the most, by far.

  Some things in the book are very Coupland, e.g. dressing a lot of illegal refugees in nerd, e.g. a Nine Inch Nails Fragility 2.0 tour t-shirt. Pop culture-references hail while the plot thickens, loosens up and gives way to a sort of Bill Hicks-ish atmosphere, circa "it's just a ride".

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  Niklas Pivic said on Dec 12, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Anyone who's every worked long hours in a cube farm can relate to this book in a "how-is-this-my-life" sort of way.

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  Cmmosher said on Apr 2, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 464 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0747586772
• ISBN-13: 9780747586777
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Pub date: Jun 05, 2006
• Dimensions: 1935 mm x 1613 mm x 1161 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken, Svenska böcker

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