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JPod: A Novel

"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 design company. The 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"--From publisher description.

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  • ""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 design company. The 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"--From publisher description."@en
  • "From the Publisher: 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 design company. The 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, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own."
  • "From the Publisher: 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 design company. The 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, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own"
  • "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 design company. The 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, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own."
  • "Prenez six programmateurs un tantinet autistes, dont Ethan Jarlewski. Enfermez-les dans jPod, un studio de jeux vidéo à Vancouver. Torturez-les à coups d'idées marketing absurdes, comme intégrer une tortue dans un jeu de skateboard. Ils se rebelleront, c'est sûr. Et si en plus la famille un brin timbrée d'Ethan s'en mêle, c'est la chance de se voir embarqué dans un rodéo cybernétique et déjanté où, l'essor de la Chine pourrait bien avoir à faire avec une histoire de karaoké. (Source : 4ème de couverture)."
  • "Een programmeur van computerspelletjes heeft problemen op zijn werk en tot overmaat van ramp begint de schrijver van dit boek ook nog zijn leefwereld binnen te dringen."
  • "Trapped in the bureaucratic morass of JPod, on the fringes of a huge Vancouver video game design company, Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers wage a daily war with the demands of the company's idiotic marketing department."
  • "Very evil ... Very funny. A lethal joyride into today's new breed of techno geeks, Coupland's forthcoming novel updates Microserfsfor the age of Google."@en
  • "From the Publisher: 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 design company. The 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, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own."@en
  • "Roman d'humour. Roman de société."
  • "Willkommen im jPod, Teil einer riesigen Spieledesignfirma und als solche die tagtägliche Tretmühle für Ethan Jarlewski und seine fünf popkulturversehrten Programmiererkollegen. Die jPodder liegen mit ihrem Marketingteam im Clinch, das sie Tag für Tag mit idiotischen Änderungen in ohnehin schon idiotischen Spielen quält."
  • "Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company."@en
  • "Coupland returns, knowingly, to mine the dot-com territory of Microserfs (1996)?this time for slapstick. Young Ethan Jarlewski works long hours as a video-game developer in Vancouver, surfing the Internet for gore sites and having random conversations with co-workers on JPod, the cubicle hive where he works, where everyone's last name begins with J. Before Ethan can please the bosses and the marketing department (they want a turtle, based on a reality TV host, inserted into the game Ethan's been working on for months) or win the heart of co-worker Kaitlin, Ethan must help his mom bury a biker she's electrocuted in the family basement which houses her marijuana farm; give his dad, an actor desperately longing for a speaking part, yet another pep talk; feed the 20 illegal Chinese immigrants his brother has temporarily stored in Ethan's apartment; and pass downtime by trying to find a wrong digit in the first 100,000 places (printed on pages 383?406) of pi. Coupland's cultural name-dropping is predictable (Ikea, the Drudge Report, etc.), as is the device of bringing in a fictional Douglas Coupland to save Ethan's day more than once. But like an ace computer coder loaded up on junk food at 4 a.m., Coupland derives his satirical, spirited humor's energy from the silly, strung-together plot and thin characters. Call it Microserfs 2.0."@en
  • "A lethal joyride through the world of today's new breed of technogeeks. Ethan Jarlewski and his five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in a massive Vancouver computer game design company, a moral grey zone where smuggling and global piracy are the order of the day. A satire on contemporary life."

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Experimental fiction"@en
  • "Experimental fiction"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Electronic books"

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