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Title	:	JPod
Author	:	Douglas Coupland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published January 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Humor. Contemporary

JPod

Douglas Coupland

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 17244 Users | 968 Reviews

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JPod, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The 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, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. Praise for JPod: "JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away."-New York Times Book Review"It's to [Coupland's] credit that in JPod he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up."-Rocky Mountain News "It's time to admire [Coupland's] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age."-USA Today "Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod."-Vanity Fair

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Original Title:	JPod
ISBN:	1596911050 (ISBN13: 9781596911055)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Steve Logan, John Doe, Carol Jarlewski, Dad, Ethan, Douglas Coupland, Casper Jesperson, Brianna Jyang, Brandon Mark Jackson, Kaitlin Anna Boyd Joyce, Greg Jarlewski, Kam Fong
Setting:	Vancouver, British Columbia(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2006)

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Ratings: 3.69 From 17244 Users | 968 Reviews

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Juvenile, disconnected, not-funny, stupid actually. Not for me.

This book started off pretty strong, but became disappointing after maybe 100 pages, and never picked up from there. I kept hoping it would pull itself out of the death spiral, but no.448 pages. I would estimate that this breaks down into:* 24 pages of fun cultural references* 12 pages of things that will entertain programmers* 15 pages of things that will offend programmers* 164 pages of things that will offend Chinese people, lesbians, ballroom dancers, people who work in offices, vegetarians,

I'm a little conflicted over my reaction to this novel. Because it was an undeniably enjoyable read and there was literally not a chapter which didn't make me laugh out loud. And yet, I feel... underwhelmed.I feel I should preface this review by saying, Coupland is my favourite author. Like, by a really long way. I love all his books insanely much. (Well, except Shampoo Planet. No one loves Shampoo Planet. Except Ryan Ross, apparently.) I want to write like him. I would happily only ever read

Maybe its because i picked this up at a thrift store for a dime along with nine other books and didn't care about this much to begin with, but have you ever read something that reeks of old writer man trying to be Hip and Relatable? Well, if you can't get me to care about your main computer geek, and you can't get me to care about the side computer geeks, you failed at Good Character Work 101.The switches from the story to blocks of text were a bit interesting though, I guess. Made for a faster

...although a lot of the criticism is warranted. that being said, however, i think what i liked about 'jpod' is coupland's healthy dose of cynacism (a lot of it directed at himself and his celebrity) within the novel's 440 some-odd pages. it's also easy to pass this off as 'microserfs 2.0,' but to do so is a mistake because i think coupland's actually stretched himself like he never has before, not so much in form (because it's almost identical to 'mircoserfs') but rather in tone and theme. most

I really like the TV show they made of this book so I was excited to read my first Coupland novel. The story is slightly different than the show, but mostly the same with more story revealed and a different ending. It's good, not incredible, with a lot of weird postmodern quirks that didn't really work. I'll read another Coupland eventually, probably it'll be better.

This was middle of the road as far as Coupland books go. People call it Microserfs 2.0. Since I loved Microserfs, I have to disagree.On one hand, as a computer programmer, I loved that part of the story. The other things I loved? Douglas Coupland portraying himself as a complete douchebag. Ethan's pot-growing, lover-shooting Mom. The quirkiness of the jPod cast.Now you're asking yourselves "But what did you hate?" The hatred is directed at the post modern bend the novel takes toward the end. The