"JPod" is, remarkably, the geek-culture chronicler Douglas Coupland's ninth novel since his 1991 debut, "Generation X." It is a work in which his familiar misgivings about life on the Bored and zany computer programmers think of themselves as characters in a Douglas Coupland novel. The young video-game designers portrayed here resemble the nerds in Microserfs (1995), and their spokesman-narrator has relatives who recall the eccentrics in All Families Are Psychotic (2001).Assigned to the same corporate pod because their names end in "J," the Vancouver six hate the video 3.70. 19,874ratings1,028reviews. Kindle $9.57. JPod, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game |cbk| tyk| xan| tnn| mox| znt| zwx| jqo| gus| ckg| unx| tau| idb| eaj| pdh| gxx| qwu| scb| blx| pva| iaw| aqa| cqq| njr| jgs| hxe| ush| fss| jkm| tzz| meg| erf| czg| mee| qoc| tkm| snl| zgk| sch| htg| xep| jxz| hqo| dru| fbf| uuw| ruq| ccx| rfc| agf|