Microserfs

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Summary: Microserfs - Generation Text
Review: Throughly Entertaining, Insightful, humourous amd extremely empathic. Anyone who has experienced culture in the 70's und 80's and has dwarfed their transition to quassi-contemporary status-quo 90's "Adulthood" will absolutely love this book. whether influenced to remain pre-Adult by tech companies looking to capitalize on youth vision or through other means, such as the unfulfilled quest to find meaning and direction in "Adulthood" resulting in neural temporal displacement., this book will speak to you. It certainly did speak, both for, and to, me. 5 Star ranking because very few books manage to generate such succinct and poignant empahy from the reader. Books generally either entertain or educate but they rarely accomplish both. Microserfs succeeds in superceding a mere read and transcends into becoming a part of you. - Michael Xavier Maelstrom Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Earth, Sometimes.

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Summary: So real it's scary
Review: Just finished the book and what an ending. This book is so real to life it scares you. The conversation and characters are very real to life, and their search "for a life" is something every professional goes through. Great book!

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Summary: THIS IS THE BETS BOOK I HAVE EVER READ
Review: this book is perfect to the person who like techie fiction. Its about a group of programmers that try to make it in life, and i LOVED IT!

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Summary: very real and true to life. very funny.
Review: ok, i listened to the casstte first cos it had Matthew Perry. which i luved. then i thought i would buy the book, and i am glad i did cos it's the best i have ever read. It's so true to life but yet so funny. You can really imagine what daniel is like and what he is thinking. i would recomend this book to anyone.. cos it has something in it for anyone:) try it.. u're gonna like it:) Sally

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Summary: This is the best book ever written.
Review: Some might be put off or intimidated by this book's reliance on computer jargon and technical terms (the main characters are software developers), but to miss this book would be to miss the most richly funny and insightful analysis of Generation X ever penned (including Coupland's own "Generation X"). Whether the characters are discussing the bourgeoise influences of breakfast cereal mascots or Talking Heads lyrics, "Microserfs" is always hilarious and often touching. Don't you dare read another book before you read this. -Chris Willie Williams

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Summary: This title ranks near the top of my list of all-time favs.
Review: If you've read this many reviews and still haven't read Microserfs, switch to reading the book. I won't be long, though, with my review; Read Microserfs; especially if you are my contemporary, (late 20s-early 30s) you'll feel connected to Danielu.@microsoftcom, the books main character. The one-star reviewers above probably believe that they put a man on the moon, and that nothing we do here on earth, even with computers, can ever compare. The test Dan faces is finding meaning and love in a world made impersonal by the internet, and ever more random by new technology; Dan succeeds by being human and vulnerable, never settling for packaged answers to life's questions, searching for closer connections. There is more here on earth in the digital age than was on the moon in the space age, and Dan is among the first characters to show us. Read it, you'll like it.

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Summary: brilliant
Review: Oh, also, "You're my baby now: you're a thousand diamonds -- a handful of lovers' rings -- chalk for a million hopscotch games" is the absolute sweetest thing anybody could tell anybody else.

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Summary: You won't understand this book if you're over 40
Review: If you were born between 1967-1972 & are employed in any technology sector, then read this book! I promise you'll get all the refs to the 70s & 80s arcane knowledge that flies over the heads of Boomers at 30,000 feet -per the usual- What DOESN'T go way over their heads, anyway?- I found the story to be amusing and entertaining & otherwise worthy of my attention.

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Summary: Reveries of the software junkie: geek reflections
Review: Microserfs is great for all the reasons enumerated by other reviews: my particular slant is that the reveries of the characters stem not from the 60's pot culture, but the new transcendent digitalheads of the 90s. Coupland's description of the main character's love relationship being like two cars that crash into each other wonderfully reflects the introverts obsessive desire to find meaning, to know, to have those "significant life experiences". But Coupland perfectly captures the ineffable anxiety that accompanies all introverted insights. To me the personal computer revolution was just that--extremely personal. My Dad worked for IBM, where even as kids we sensed it was "now the fun is over". Microsoft Windows had the promise of bringing our colors back to life, with the belief that software is fun. The ending of Microserfs is poignant, as you will see: Life after IBM? Microserfs is a significant life experience!

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Summary: This Book is Terrible
Review: Microserfs is, beyond any doubt, the worst book I have ever read. It's too long, too shallow, and too boring.