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Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book. " ... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus.' It's sick and evil."

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This was was my first Coupland book and it wasn't what I was expecting. Apparently I was prepared for shallow postmodernism or something smugly impressed by its own cynicism. I don't know where I got that idea, b...more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Thu Feb 21 16:27:35 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 16:46:12 -0800 2008 bildungsroman of the techie world set between its two 1990s axes: Microsoft and Silicon Valley. My friends hear me make quips from this book far too often, perhaps my favorite being "Microsoft hired 3000 people last year and you know not all of them ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:18:44 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 18:27:06 -0800 2009 Generation X and Life After God and was thrilled by these tales of wry, vibrant, lost characters who fought for real meaning when their culture caused them to shrug at tragedy and love and weep over reruns and advertising campaigns (I was a pretty lonely teenager, o...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 09:30:03 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 15:58:28 -0700 2008
God knows why - it's not like Coupland is attempting to write a great tragedy. I think I just really liked the characters, liked the way they interacted and how much they cared about each other. The book does a gre...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 02:40:18 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 02:45:31 -0800 2008
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Douglas Coupland, the Canadian author best known for coining the term “Generation X”, concocts a wonderful tale that would make any geek weep.

Microserfs is narrated in the form of a journal (which in itself is appealing to me) penned by the main character, Dan Underw...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 31 14:20:10 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 24 13:44:04 -0700 2009
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Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form[1:] as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to f...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 19:06:46 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 21:16:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 14:26:28 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 12:01:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 15:58:04 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 15:58:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Aug 13 13:51:04 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 13:57:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 13:07:41 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 11:22:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 04:30:26 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 23:38:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2749