false \ 22538 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg 221059 13 820439 2006 JPod: A Novel total:2625|5:535|4:954|3:739|2:293|1:104| 2625 9398 3547 382 22538 1596911042 9781596911048 184 41 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22538.JPod 1 4 false Sat Jun 16 19:46:18 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:46:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 3 4 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri May 02 12:16:32 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 12:20:45 -0700 2008
I feel I should preface this review by saying, Coupland is my favourite author. L...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 1 5 false Wed Sep 03 11:55:19 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 12:11:15 -0700 2008
It's hard to believe that this is the man who authored the book that made me want to become a writer. He wrote three brilliant books, at the beginning of his career, his last being Microserfs...Then I watched him fall shorter and shorter with each subsequ...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 4 2 false Wed Apr 04 20:58:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 22:30:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 11:19:01 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 04:09:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 4 1 false Mon Jan 14 09:33:19 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 13:48:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 22538 1596911042 9781596911048 184 41 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22538.JPod 3 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 03 23:29:29 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 23:32:51 -0700 2007 Microserfs for the age of Google" is how this is oft-described. That's pretty accurate, really. Stylistically, it's much the same—which was nice, because Microserfs is pretty much my favorite Douglas Coupland book. (I have now read ALL of them! *sob* Well, except for the one written i...more...]]> 785002 0747585873 9780747585879 59 4 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178323389m/785002.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785002.JPod 2 1 false Thu Jul 31 22:20:36 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 27 16:33:38 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:19:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 22538 1596911042 9781596911048 184 41 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22538.JPod 4 1 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Apr 18 17:07:30 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:10:03 -0800 2009
But this one made me laugh. A lot. And he brings back his...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Mar 29 16:55:09 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:55:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 2 0 false Tue Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Mar 08 15:03:19 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 15:06:10 -0700 2009
I’m a fan of Dougl...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 2 0 false Fri Nov 28 04:58:14 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 05:05:55 -0800 2008
Mitt namn är Douglas Coupland, jag sitter i ett rum och onanerar till hur bra jag är... HARRR Jag skriver en bok om hur bra jag är, som handlar om 6 personer på ett kontor... Hurr fast jag är viktigast i hela boken... Haha, jag är så viktig att om jag till och med ger ut skit s...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 15:34:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 15:51:03 -0700 2009
JPod follows the lives of five young co-workers at a large video game design company - working in a soul-less, mindless...but funky...corporate environment where they each stuggle with the shallowness of their worklives. ...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon May 18 22:14:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 22:29:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 22538 1596911042 9781596911048 184 41 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22538.JPod 5 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 02 17:22:53 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:48:30 -0800 2009
I read somewhere that Coupland said he had a lot of fun writing this book - it shows and it makes it so much fun to read! I didn't want to put this one down. It made me want to re-read Microser...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 2 0 false Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 09 14:51:50 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 14:51:50 -0800 2009
1. The parts that are just like Microserfs
2. The parts that are not as good as Microserfs

The similarities are so pervasive and unlikely that it’s hard to know what to make of it. There are some fun moments here; Coupland is st...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 14:24:02 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 07:37:54 -0800 2009
It's WAY more messed ...more...]]> 22538 1596911042 9781596911048 184 41 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175200210m/22538.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22538.JPod 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:39:21 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:39:21 -0800 2009 Since the early 1990s Douglas Coupland has mined North America's cultural milieu in books including Microserfs, Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and Eleanor Rigby (*** Mar/Apr 2005), among others. Jpod contains the best and worst of Coupland. The novel offers brilliant commentary on global consumerism...

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After devouring mo...more...]]> 221059 1596911050 9781596911055 2229 309 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172821182m/221059.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:22:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 13:29:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22538