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Agatha Donkar Lund
Aug 29, 2007 rated it really liked it
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I genuinely can't believe it's been ten years since I first read this book, but apparently it has been, since I read it in the summer of 1997, right in the midst of the first web boom. It spoke to me then -- about creating your own family, about being happy versus having money and when the two intersect -- and it still resonates with me now. I can't speak to how well Coupland got the Microsoft culture, but I can speak to the fact that his sad, lonely geeks looking for love and connection reminde ...more
Kent Winward
Apr 19, 2020 rated it really liked it
The 90s where everything was different and everything is still weirdly the same.
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