Douglas Coupland's jPod
2006
Editorial El Aleph 525 pages
These are the following: with respect to clothing, I'm sick of everyone trying to be different around the world. At the end everyone is buying the clothes at the stores of the mall. And I'm not stupid enough to believe that second-hand clothing makes me rebel.
Douglas Coupland is my favorite writer when you publish something new I always try to achieve, as quickly as possible and sincerely it is complicated because it is over here Coupland published regularly and therefore what gets imported with the consequent increase in price. Fortunately for me this book came as a nice gift. In this novel
Canadian author makes a kind of sequel to Microserfs (1999), no character, but of style. Is repeated in some plague youth group with his work in a multinational company and the computer element. Now unlike the stories of Microsoft's programmers this time is concentrated in a video game programmers and how they change their routine work, the arrival of his new boss, a guy who jumped to save Toblerone (yes, chocolate) for ruin to become head of a division video games
The story is told from the point of view of Ethan, in charge of special effects for games and someone who is classified as a person whose "biggest challenge is to work and do not, making it difficult to maintain in a company where the productivity of space is measured with all possible metrics. "
The book ranges from the work of Ethan, his foreign colleagues and their complicated relationships: his father is a retired star with dreams of film (and whose talents will reach only extra non-speaking roles), her mother who has a tidy business of growing and selling marijuana in retail managed THC levels and generation of clones. It is interesting to see the relationship of need for parents to Ethan who constantly call to ask favors the most different, from going to collect drug debts, hiding and burying bodies casual lovers and others.
Like any Coupland book has some approaches to the graphic design profession's initial author, with some crazy long typographical and numerical listings are also echoed in Microserfs.
Entertaining Coupland book, with less terrestrial side in his previous books, but not fundamental in his bibliography, yet still surprising for its ability to romanticize stories of people drowning in knowledge and lifestyles immersed in popular culture, so much so that the novel has its adaptation in canadian television.
