JPod - Softcover

Coupland, Douglas

3.7

19,871 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747585873 ISBN 13: 9780747585879

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

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Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is being invaded by marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and the rise of China. Everybody in both worlds seems to inhabit a moral grey zone, and nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland himself.

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Review:

"Coupland is an accomplished and talented writer whose books are perennial bestsellers."
-"Quill & Quire
""[JPod] is a work in which his familiar misgivings about life on the technological cusp are again invoked, but also one in which the skills he's been developing as a novelist pay off, where his satirical streak and his social consciousness finally stop fooling around with each other and settle down together.... JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away."
-"The New York Times Book Review
""JPod is a seriously funny book, ...a rolling thunder of sustained comedy, first page to last, as it ends up, and skewers the shamelessness and amorality that define our era.... Coupland's timing is impeccable: JPod is the right book at the right time."
-"The Globe and Mail
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Praise for" Eleanor Rigby":
"Coupland's. . .most accomplished work to date. . .could be one of the first great novels of the new century."
--"Kirkus" (starred review)
"Eleanor Rigby. . .might prove to be among the best fiction of this new year."
-"Los Angeles Times"
"What makes him hit us again and again, as though he were pelting meteorites from on high, is his ability to connect with ordinary human emotions and to make them profound."
-"Elle "(Canada)
Praise for "Hey Nostradamus!":
"A leap sideways from the acid irony which has shaded some of Coupland's earlier novels. Instead, from the pen of one of the coolest authors on the planet has come a work of suffusing humanity."
-"Sunday Herald "(UK)
"The leading literary voice of the most cynical generation lets it all out in a blaze ofspirituality, terror, high comedy and soul-searching, and does it all in a way that is caring and clever, heartbreaking and hilarious, tough and tender. . .not only Coupland's best novel, but also one of the best of the year."
-"The Hamilton Spectator"

"From the Hardcover edition."

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Coupland is possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today.... JPod is without a doubt his strongest, best-observed novel since Microserfs."
-"The Guardian" (UK)
"Coupland explores the landscape of our rapidly globalizing culture like a tourist armed with a digital camera and a limitless memory card, taking snapshots of everything that catches his eye."
-"The Vancouver Sun"
"A first-rate novelist and observer of the contemporary scene."
-"National Post"
"�Coupland has� given us a rollicking good, larger-than-life read."
-"Ottawa Citizen"
"�Coupland� once again nails the zeitgeist of the age.... The best thing about JPod is its characteristic good writing ... and its dark, unflagging wit."
-"Calgary Sun"
"Coupland is an accomplished and talented writer whose books are perennial bestsellers."
-"Quill & Quire
""�JPod� is a work in which his familiar misgivings about life on the technological cusp are again invoked, but also one in which the skills he's been developing as a novelist pay off, where his satirical streak and his social consciousness finally stop fooling around with each other and settle down together.... JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away."
-"The New York Times Book Review
""JPod is a seriously funny book, ...a rolling thunder of sustained comedy, first page to last, as it ends up, and skewers the shamelessness and amorality that define our era.... Coupland's timing is impeccable: JPod is the right book at the right time."
-"The Globe and Mail
"
Praise for"Eleanor Rigby":
"Coupland's. . .most accomplished work to date. . .could be one of the first great novels of the new century."
--"Kirkus" (starred review)
"Eleanor Rigby. . .might prove to be among the best fiction of this new year."
-"Los Angeles Times"
"What makes him hit us again and again, as though he were pelting meteorites from on high, is his ability to connect with ordinary human emotions and to make them profound."
-"Elle "(Canada)
Praise for "Hey Nostradamus!":
"A leap sideways from the acid irony which has shaded some of Coupland's earlier novels. Instead, from the pen of one of the coolest authors on the planet has come a work of suffusing humanity."
-"Sunday Herald "(UK)
"The leading literary voice of the most cynical generation lets it all out in a blaze of spirituality, terror, high comedy and soul-searching, and does it all in a way that is caring and clever, heartbreaking and hilarious, tough and tender. . .not only Coupland's best novel, but also one of the best of the year."
-"The Hamilton Spectator"

Praise for "JPod: "
" "JPod" is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away." -- "New York Times Book Review"

" It's to [Coupland' s] credit that in "JPod "he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-- too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-- and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up." -- "Rocky Mountain News"

" It's time to admire [Coupland' s] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate ' Only connect' for the Google age." -- "USA Today"

" Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into "JPod,"" -- "Vanity Fair"

Praise for "JPod: "
""JPod" is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away."--"New York Times Book Review"

"It's to [Coupland's] credit that in "JPod "he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man--too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism--and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up."--"Rocky Mountain News"

"It's time to admire [Coupland's] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age."--"USA Today"

"Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into "JPod"."--"Vanity Fair"

From the Publisher:

This is a special Limited edition of 3000 copies.
Each hardback copy is signed by the author and comes in a presentation case together with one of six cube figures based on the characters from J-pod, and manufactured by the cubepeople, Characters include;
Ethan,Bree,John Doe,Cowboy,Kaitlin and Evil Mark.

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