New Douglas Coupland Book
Thursday, March 30, 2006
If you never read Generation X you need to its a must for any Gen X person who has held a dead end job at one point in their life. I think my other favorite book was Girlfriend in A Coma, its hard to explain whats its about, so just read it. Right now I am reading Elenore Rigby, a story about a 36 lonely woman who's 20 year old son comes into her life. His last couple books were more introspective, he dealt more with families, death, and self determination. I think this is why jPod will be a fun read, it will be back to the carefree, comedy and life of a modern adult coming of age.
jPod
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
Posted by mardenhill 3/30/2006 07:50:00 PM
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9:13 PM
Cool blog, interesting information... Keep it UP » » »7:28 PMWhere did you find it? Interesting read » »
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