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JPod

Auteur(s): Douglas Coupland
Narrateur(s): Marc Cashman
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Very evil...very funny.

A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.  

Ethan Jarlewski and five coworkers are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.

The six jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan’s personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. jPod's universe is amoral and shameless - and dizzyingly fast-paced. The characters are products of their era even as they're creating it. 

Everybody in Ethan's life inhabits a moral gray zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. 

Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this audiobook throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. jPod is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.

©2006 Douglas Coupland

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"Coupland revisits the digital kingdom he so shrewdly depicted in Microserfs (1995) in a zeitgeist-trawling satire about 21st-century cyber obsession." (Booklist)

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The Dullest Copeland novel that was never meant to be read out loud

My biggest problem with this audiobook is that is wasn’t written to be read out loud. There are so many lists that would work if you’re actually reading them, but I felt like I was going insane listening to these inane words read in a nasal, AI-like voice. People don’t speak this way. It made me anxious throughout nearly the entire book.
The story, in my opinion, is one of Copeland’s worst. It’s far-fetched to the point of being laughable until Copeland himself shows up as an actual character and it moves to absurd. I’ve always really enjoyed Copeland’s books, so I’m not sure if he’s making some kind of statement that I just didn’t get, but personally, I hated this audiobook. I can’t think of one redeeming feature.

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