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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.

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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. (May)
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Already dubbed Microserfs 2.0 by some pundits--a winking allusion to Douglas Coupland's previous novel Microserfs, which similarly chronicled pop-culture-damaged twentysomething misfits flailing, foundering, and occasionally succeeding in the high-tech sector--JPod is, like all of Coupland's novels, a byproduct of its era and yet strangely detached from it. Only this time with a bold and very crafty narrative device: Douglas Coupland, novelist, is a character in Douglas Coupland's novel. Which, when you think about it, makes sense since the type of people Coupland depicts are precisely the type of people who consume Coupland novels. As the once-great comedian Dennis Miller might holler, "Stop him before he sub-references again!" Readers familiar with Coupland's oeuvre know what to expect with the characterizations here. They also know that Coupland on a roll is both savagely observant and laugh-out-loud funny: "Bree was showing someone photos of her recent holiday visiting Korean animation sweathshops. She was bummed because she couldn't get into North Korea: too much legal juju. [She said] 'I just wanted to know what it's like to be in a society with no technology except for three dial telephones and a TV camera they won from Fidel Castro in a game of rock paper scissors.'" Much of the book is like that, built on granular and meandering exchanges between characters about . . . stuff. While JPod's flow is hobbled by some preposterous twists and character traits and by random words, phrases, and numbers splattered gratuitously across successive pages in oversized typeface, it's hard to imagine Coupland fans walking away disappointed. --Kim Hughes --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Douglas Coupland is a novelist who also works in visual arts and theater. His novels include Eleanor Rigby, Generation X, All Families Are Psychotic, Hey Nostradamus!, and JPod. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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"Oh God. I feel like a refugee from a Douglas Coupland novel.”

“That asshole.”

“Who does he think he is?”

“Come on, guys, focus. We’ve got a major problem on our hands.”

The six of us were silent, but for our footsteps. The main corridor’s muted plasma TVs blipped out the news and sports, while co-workers in long-sleeved blue and black T-shirts oompah-loompahed in and out of laminate-access doors, elevated walkways, staircases and elevators, their missions inscrutable and squirrelly. It was a rare sunny day. Freakishly articulated sunbeams highlighted specks of mica in the hallway’s designer granite. They looked like randomized particle events.

Mark said, “I can’t even think about what just happened in there.”

John Doe said, “I’d like to do whatever it is people statistically do when confronted by a jolt of large and bad news.”

I suggested he ingest five milligrams of Valium and three shots of hard liquor or four glasses of domestic wine.

“Really?”

“Don’t ask me, John. Google it.”

“And so I shall.”

Cowboy had a jones for cough syrup, while Bree fished through one of her many pink vinyl Japanese handbags for lip gloss – phase one of her well-established pattern of pursuing sexual conquest to silence her inner pain.

The only quiet member of our group of six was Kaitlin, new to our work area as of the day before. She was walking with us mostly because she didn’t yet know how to get from the meeting room to our cubicles. We’re not sure if Kaitlin is boring or if she’s resistant to bonding, but then again none of us have really cranked up our charm.

We passed Warren from the motion capture studio. “Yo! jPodsters! A turtle! All right!” He flashed a thumbs-up.

“Thank you, Warren. We can all feel the love in the room.”

Clearly, via the gift of text messaging, Warren and pretty much everyone in the company now knew of our plight, which is this: during today’s marketing meeting we learned we now have to retroactively insert a charismatic cuddly turtle character into our skateboard game, which is already nearly one-third of the way through its production cycle. Yes, you read that correctly, a turtle character–in a skateboard game.

The three-hour meeting had taken place in a two-hundred-seat room nicknamed the air-conditioned rectum. I tried to make the event go faster by pretending to have superpower vision: I could see the carbon dioxide pumping in and out of everyone’s nose and mouth – it was purple. It made me think of that urban legend about the chemical they put in swimming pools that reveals when somebody pees. Then I wondered if Leonardo da Vinci had ever inhaled any of the oxygen molecules I was breathing, or if he ever had to sit through a marketing meeting. What would that have been like? “Leo, thanks for your input, but our studies indicate that when they see Lisa smile, they want a sexy, flirty smile, not that grim little slit she has now. Also, I don’t know what that closet case Michelangelo is thinking with that naked David guy, but Jesus, clamp a diaper onto him pronto. Next item on the agenda: Perspective – Passing Fad or Opportunity to Win? But first, Katie here is going to tell us about this Friday’s Jeans Day, to be followed by a ten-minute muffin break.”

But the word “turtle” pulled me out of my reverie, uttered by Fearless Leader–our new head of marketing, Steve. I put up my hand and quite reasonably asked, “Sorry, Steve, did you say a turtle?”

Christine, a senior development director, said, “No need to be sarcastic, Ethan. Steve here took Toblerone chocolate and turned it around inside of two years.”

“No,” Steve protested. “I appreciate an open dialogue. All I’m really saying is that, at home, my son, Carter, plays SimQuest4 and can’t get enough of its turtle character, and if my Carter likes turtle characters, then a turtle character is a winner, and thus, this skateboard game needs a turtle.”

John Doe BlackBerried me: I CAN’T FEEL MY LEGS

And so the order was issued to make our new turtle character “accessible” and “fun” and the buzzword is so horrible I have to spell it out in ASCII: “{101, 100, 103, 121}”

• • •

Back in our cubicle pod, the six of us fizzled away from each other like ginger ale bubbles. I had eighteen new emails and one phone message, my mother: “Dear, could you give me a call? I really need to speak with you–it’s an emergency.”

An emergency? I phoned her cell right away. “Mom, what’s up? What’s wrong?”

“Ethan, are you at work right now?”

“Where else would I be?”

“I’m at SuperValu. Let me call you back from a pay phone.”

The line went dead. I picked it up when it rang.

“Mom, you said this was an emergency.”

“It is, dear. Ethan, honey, I need you to help me.”

“I just got out of the Worst Meeting Ever. What’s going on?”

“I suppose I’d better just tell you flat out.”

“Tell me what?”

“Ethan, I killed a biker.”

“You killed a biker?”

“Well, I didn’t mean to.”

“Mom, how the hell did you manage to kill a biker?”

“Ethan, just come home right now. I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”

“Why doesn’t Dad help?”

“He’s on a shoot today. He might get a speaking part.”

She hung up.

• • •

On my way out of the office, I passed a world-building team, standing in a semicircle, staring at a large German-made knife on a desktop.

“What’s up?” I asked.

“It’s the knife we’re using to cut Aidan’s birthday cake,” a friend, Josh, replied.

I looked more closely at the knife: it was clownishly big. “Okay, it’s hard-core Itchy & Scratchy – but so what?”

“We’re having a contest – we’re trying to see if there’s any way to hold a knife and walk across a room and not look psycho."

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?Una gran parte del gusto que uno encuentra al leer un libro de Coupland es la maravillosa e inesperada forma en que van apareciendo los detalles para tejer la trama de forma sabia y meticulosa hasta llegar al final.? The Guelph Mercury --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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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
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'Very funny' Sunday Times 'A blackly comic tale of life in the age of Google, and it's Coupland's best book in years ... A wonderfully inventive book, fizzing with wit and black humour' Image 'The perfect vehicle for his funny and poignant evocations of near-term nostalgia ... there is brilliance at work in JPod. Not to mention more LOLs than you could shake a bong at' Los Angeles Times 'A dazzling comic novel, confirming that there is on current form no funnier novelist writing in English' Literary Review --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From Booklist

No, "JPod" is not the next version of iPod; it refers to a group of geeks with last names starting with J cubicled together in a distant quadrant of a giant Vancouver video-game corporation. Coupland revisits the digital kingdom he so shrewdly depicted in Microserfs (1995) in a zeitgeist-trawling satire about twenty-first-century cyber obsession. JPoder Ethan Jarlewski narrates in deadpan geekspeak, reporting on life in gamer land, where he and his fellow designers--each precocious, cynical, oddball charming, and possibly a touch autistic--invent hilariously clever trivial pursuits to avoid work. But Ethan is often distracted from fun with porn sites, math problems, and an evil cyber version of Ronald McDonald by the crazy demands of his off-the-charts family. There's a South Park edginess and surrealism to the frequently violent escapades of Ethan's actor-wannabe father, gun-toting and pot-growing mother, and real-estate salesman brother, who gets them all entangled with the gangster Kam Fong. As both actual and cyber mayhem crest, Coupland, himself a character in this rampaging comedy, reminds us that no matter how seductive the virtual realm is, it is real life that requires our keenest attention. Donna Seaman
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From Bookmarks Magazine

Since the early 1990s Douglas Coupland has mined North America's cultural milieu in books including Microserfs, Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and Eleanor Rigby (*** Mar/Apr 2005), among others. Jpod contains the best and worst of Coupland. The novel offers brilliant commentary on global consumerism and Internet culture. Bizarre characters and witty humor captivated some reviewers. But others criticized the bombardment of cultural references, flat characters, meandering action (15 pages of prime numbers double as a game), and self-conscious insertion of the Coupland character. "If it's more difficult to recognize the profundity of his insights this time," notes the New York Times Book Review, "we should still appreciate Coupland for his consistency in making them."

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002UM5C04
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury USA; 1st edition (December 10, 2008)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 10, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 18151 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 580 pages

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Since 1991 Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for The Financial Times of London. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux, DIS and Vice. In 2000 Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives, Everything is Anything is Anywhere is Everywhere at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and Bit Rot at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, and Villa Stücke in Munich this fall. In 2015 and 2016 Coupland was artist in residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute. Coupland is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Officer of the Order of British Columbia and is a Chevlier de l'Order des Arts et des Lettres.

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Matt

it's not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 14, 2006

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...although a lot of the criticism is warranted. that being said, however, i think what i liked about 'jpod' is coupland's healthy dose of cynacism (a lot of it directed at himself and his celebrity) within the novel's 440 some-odd pages. it's also easy to pass this off as 'microserfs 2.0,' but to do so is a mistake because i think coupland's actually stretched himself like he never has before, not so much in form (because it's almost identical to 'mircoserfs') but rather in tone and theme. most of the characters in 'microserfs' were endearing folks, people you genuinely liked. a lot of the characters in 'jpod' are often unlikeable, especially the novel's protagonist, ethan jarlweski (not hard to see why when you see ethan's parents).

i do understand some people's abhorrance to inserting onself into one's novel, but the douglas coupland *in* the novel is five-star jerk off. had coupland the author made coupland the character some winning, all-around-good-guy dood, that would have been repulsive. some of the character's are, granted, a bit overdrawn and exaggerated (freedome, kam, steve, evil mark, bree, etc), but couplands endows them with enough fallability and imperfection that rise about the cliched 'quirky and offbeat' characters that pollute so many novels. and since i work in a programming department, i got a kick out of the jpod crew. by and large coupland nails techie and geek culture to the t. i laughed out loud several times.

the novel's denouement is something of a let down, but i think this is entirely the point. it would have been relatively easy to wind it up nicely and neatly as he often does. this is where coupland's cynicism comes shining through: in some ways it does come off as a contractual obligation book and i can't help but think it's a subtle jab at his publisher and his readers. some may find this off-putting. i, on the other, found it completely hilarious. too many authors take their 'art' way too seriously. coupland, however, seems to have a different view. why else would he insert twenty pages of prime numbers? lighten up, people. take a joke. coupland's 'plot' in 'jpod' is merely the vehicle for his cynicism and sense of humor. don't take it too seriously. just go with it. enjoy it.

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Martin P. Eckert

Coupland is back in form

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2006

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After Coupland's last book, Eleanor Rigby, I was really worried about Jpod, especially since it was supposed to a "sequel" of sorts to Microserfs.

After the obvious lag that was apparent in Eleanor Rigby, Coupland is back to his usual satiric, witty self.

Jpod follows the life of Ethan Jarlewski, a video game programmer that works with other colorful individuals in a cubicle farm they call "Jpod". There's not much of a linear plot to speak of. The story mainly jumps around between Ethan's involvement in his Mom's pot dealing escapades, his Dad's zest for trying for a speaking part in a movie by over-exerting himself as a lowly extra, and his brother's involvement with a Chinese people-smuggler named Kam Fong. All the stories interweave, and mixing the different stories together produces some outrageous exploits that are fun reading.

Coupland does insert himself as a character in the book, which I was worried about because it sounded unwarranted and pretentious. However, he played it out well, and only once did it feel forced. I saw a Coupland reading not too long ago in Austin, and he described his character in the book as an "evil, slick, James Bond version of himself". This characterization is pretty accurate and is why this portion works out the way it does.

Coupland inserts many examples of "text art" in the book. On one page there is nothing but the words "ramen noodles" over and over. Another is about 30 pages of random numbers. Others are random buzz words of our modern culture. At first this text art can seem unnerving, but once you realize that their purpose is to conjure images in your head to create a setting in time, you start to appreciate and even enjoy them.

All in all, JPod was a very enjoyable read. Without providing any spoilers, I will say that it was an accurate portrayal of our technology and efficiency obsessed culture. It is not preachy but written with a love for who we are. It was a relevant update from 1992's Microserfs.

First of all, if you liked Microserfs, you will like JPod. If you haven't read Microserfs...it's not entirely necessary to do so before reading JPod, but I would recommend it, if nothing else than for getting the full effect.

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Rachel

Loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2013

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I loved this book. It was recommended to me by someone who rarely reads so I thought I had better give it a go. It is a little bit odd in places with fonts changing type and the narrative changing style - such as words being written in Chinese with limited translation, but this all fits in with the geekiness of the world of computer programming.

The story isn't in a huge amount of depth, and focuses on minute aspects of day to day life such as finding in `O' in 20 pages of random numbers, and the main characters relationships with his colleagues, his weed growing mother, ballroom dancing rather and people smuggling Chinese housemate.

The one downside of the book for me was the author placing himself into the story. In my eyes it wasn't needed and could as easily have worked as another character.

I'm finding it quite hard to review this book because it's quite unlike what I normally read, and I cannot easily explain why I enjoyed it. It's a combination of everyday life and the weirdness of the workplace. The best thing would be for you to read it and make you own mind up. Some people will love it and others hate it.

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Kevin, The Wonder Horse

and managed to cope with annoyance that much of the stylistic brilliance you loved in Microserfs is in here simply regurgitated and cheapened ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2017

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I'm not too sure of the point of this book. It's a little as though as his follow up to the Sistene Chapel Michaelangelo opted to recreate it, in crayon, on the ceiling of a toilet.

It is very similar in many ways to Microserfs in style and characters except that in this work the characters are simply 1 dimensional projections of their equivalents in Microserfs, projected onto a ridiculous plot that involves a version of Coupland himself, for no obvious reason.

Having said that, once you get over the fact it's going nothing to do with Microserfs, and managed to cope with annoyance that much of the stylistic brilliance you loved in Microserfs is in here simply regurgitated and cheapened it is quite an amusing read and whilst I may not actually recommend it I wouldn't caution people not to read it.

A Venice Merchant

Somewhat disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 23, 2009

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I bought this book after watching the complete series of jPod on Virgin Media's on-demand service. Whilst I had not read any of Coupland's material before, but heard opinions from others who had, I had some idea of what to expect. Some pages had me laughing out loud (letters to Ronald, for example), whilst the numerous pages of seemingly unnecessary cruft (e.g. number sequences) infuriated me.

I don't know if Coupland includes himself in the narrative of his other books, but I found his appearance in jPod rather cheesy and, again, unnecessary. I believe the story would have been at least unaffected, at most enhanced, by replacing Coupland (or his evil twin persona, whatever) with another character playing the exact same role. I found his self-inclusion an indulgence, but maybe I missed some nuance or finer point he was trying to make here.

Having read jPod after seeing the excellent TV series, I was disappointed. If I'd read the book first, I probably wouldn't have bothered with the TV show - and that would have been a damn shame.

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Matt Bedford

I really enjoyed the book and some of its more off-the-wall story ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 18, 2018

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A starker version of Coupland than some of his other books, but by no means unprecedented. However, I really enjoyed the book and some of its more off-the-wall story elements - even the one where Coupland appears as a character. It was funny, cynical yes, but ultimately quite uplifting and compelling. I think I read the whole thing in 3 days: I couldn't stop reading.

John Moseley

Like a Dilbert cartoon...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 24, 2011

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Jpod is like an extended Dilbert cartoon. It may not be up there with Coupland's very finest, but it's completely on the money in its deciption of the pointlessness of office life; unnervingly so.

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