{"id":3799,"date":"2007-01-03T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T03:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spynotebook.org\/chip\/wordpress\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2007-01-03T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T03:29:16","slug":"review-jpod-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2007\/01\/03\/review-jpod-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: JPod: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JPod: A Novel<\/a><\/div>\n
by Douglas Coupland<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


\nA really long time ago, I read Microserfs<\/i> by Douglas Coupland and thought it was awesome. I was hoping that jPod<\/i> would capture 2006 the same way that Microserfs<\/i> captured 1996. It didn’t.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, liked little parts but not the whole package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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