A really long time ago, I read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland and thought it was awesome. I was hoping that jPod would capture 2006 the same way that Microserfs captured 1996. It didn’t.
My main problem was that Doug Coupland writes himself in as a character. This could have been clever but it just didn’t quite work for me like I think it should have. But, I didn’t hate the book because it did remind me a lot of the way we interact in the Help Desk, so I guess it did reflect that part of my current world.
For instance, two characters are trying to annoy a third co-worker by doing a cross word puzzle together by talking across cubicle walls. It is all pre-planned so the hard answers they get right off but yet can not for the life of them guess “Mary Tyler _____ (5 Letters)”. They banter back and forth until the third yells the answer, exasperated. This reminded me of the day that Sheni and I convinced Kridles that neither one of us had ever heard of “Diff’rent Strokes”.
So, yeah, liked little parts but not the whole package.
