Microserfs

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Summary: Waste of recycled trees
Review: I picked this book up at a regular book store on clearance at $3.50 from $21. The cover and back looked intresting with the Legos. I looked through the book and it was not entertaining at all. The market this book reaches is limited at best to people in the computer field and Dilbert readers. Legos doen't play a critical role in this book. My $3.50 could best be spent on ANY charitable organization, whether it did good or squandred the money on something other than buying the book Microserfs.

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Summary: This book is far more facinating than television
Review: I may only be fourteen years old, but i know that books were created for TWO things: education and entertainment. This book was thoroughly entertaining. I laughed at the witty, computer nerd humor. I cried at his mournings. This book has incredible insight into the world of the computer geeks. If it got any closer, i'd have to say that Coupland is a computer geek. If you do turn out to read this book, don't skip out on the rantings in big and bizarre fonts, those are the best parts.

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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book paints a wonderfully satirical picture of Microsoft while at the same time still having the good writing quailities that are usually present in plain fiction.

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Summary: simply fantastic
Review: coupland's done an amazing job with his hilarious, touching, and brilliant microserfs. you don't really know what it's all about until the end, and even then...

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Summary: my favourite book
Review: This is the first book by Douglas Coupland that I finished. I started Girlfriend in a Coma, but that wasn't as interesting. By now, I have read all of Coupland's books, and Microserfs is still the best by far, much better than Generation X itself, which is still decent. The book has a definite thread, is not wrapped up in sexual matters, though it touches it enough to seem realistic. It's really funny. I am sounding like a dork. But read it. It's really good

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Summary: Can't put it down.
Review: You will read this book cover to cover in a day, I did. The characters are very well developed, but the mental imagery of the scenery changes atleast 3 times during the book. You can picture the characters almost vividly as you peruse the pages. Read it and see what the programming world is truly like.

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Summary: My favorite Douglas Coupland!
Review: Granted, I haven't yet read "Girlfriend in a Coma," or the (in)famous "Generation X," but of the three I HAVE read, this one rocks. It has the humor and quirkiness of Shampoo Planet without the lack of emotion and disastrous ending, and it has some deeper thoughts without the complete suckiness that is (and I'm going to get slammed for this one) "Life After God." Funny and touching all at once--who could ask for anything more?

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Summary: a geek & proud
Review: Microserfs was my first Coupland novel and it won't be the last. A simple enough plot ,a story of the extended University campus life spillingout into the computer workplace in a way few careers do. What the author does sowell is to touch on so many latent longings of graduates.....the University digs mentality , Dans relationship with Karla his friendship with Bug his idolisation of the Jedlike Michael are there but also barely mentioned...one of those books you read slowly because you just keep drifting off into that worldof "i did something like " and the "that reminds of the time when"....I loved it...

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I just finished reading this book for the second time. It is one of the funniest books I have ever read.

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Summary: The Greatest!
Review: This book happens to be the greatest, most well written book that I have ever read. I recommend this book to anyone and their dog