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Summary: it was was a great low-life story
Review: A friend gave this book to me, because I'm a kinda microsoftie. And i loved it. The frightening thing was, that there were really things that fitted me and my fellow loosers :-). Even though you're not working with microsoft stuff, it's very amusing to read it.
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Summary: Like Seinfeld a book about nothing.
Review: The story was developed painfully slow. The subject matter was insightful but dull. The charecters were unappealing and the ending was unsatisfying.
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Summary: This is life!
Review: As a comp.sci. grad, I was amazed that an author has described my life down to a 't' - from eating breakfast cereals for dinner (Cap'n Crunch mouth!) to having a life consist of "Sleep, work and Costco's". How he managed to encapsulate my classmates and myself so perfectly into a book I will never know, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have some hope that despite my geekiness (not nerdiness, thank you!), I will one day achieve a life. Read this book and laugh.
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Summary: Good, but nothing more.
Review: A good funny read, but not for those who want to read mature stuff.
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Summary: Quite a Touching and Realistic Portrayal
Review: I found this book to be interesting and touching. The only things that bothered me were the gibberish regarding pretentious politics (Dusty, Todd, and Ethan), and the character of Amy. Also I wished Doug Coupland dove more into Oop! development. But I guess no one can be perfect!
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Summary: A delightful surprise
Review: Douglas Coupland (who coined the cursed term 'Generation X') suffers from pigeonholing. His writing goes so far beyond inside jokes that appeal to techies (although he's good at those) and characters fond of all-night coding runs and Skittles. He writes about people, and Microserfs made me laugh and made me cry. And it was wonderful!
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Summary: A gripping adventure about the Silicon Valley cyber culture
Review: Once I started this book, it was hard to pull away. Coupland pulls you into the book not by just introducing us to the characters but making us care for the characters as if we actually knew them. The end of this book leaves you shocked at what you have just experienced, a first person view of the Silicon Valley cyber culture.
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Summary: A rewarding read
Review: I remember reading a couple of chapters from Coupland's Microserfs a few years ago and liking them a bit. However, at that time, I had no idea who Microsoft was, why Bill was so great and besides, I'd just realised that girls didn't give you cooties. Just days ago, I finally got a copy of my own to read and I've been hooked ever since.Microserfs is the sort of book where you start to read it for just a few minutes and the next thing you know, it's past midnight and you've only got a third of the book left. This book grabs you and will not let go. Normally I hate titles in this vein, peering through a window into the life of the main character, but in this instace it works. As a quick reader, I normally rush through books, skipping over bits that don't interest me, but Microserfs slows me down to just the right pace, so that I get the full value. Excellent.
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Summary: the *perfect* book?
Review: I really loved this book, for every single line... Not only for the fact, that I found myself in some quite similar (job-)situation when I read it: I just quit a job at a larger company to start working in a 3-people company. Mainly for the idealistic reason of trying to acheive something. I also like the way he writes about the detailed observations of Life(TM).
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Summary: Intelligence in a spin of cynicism
Review: Douglas Coupland is a very intelligent guy, but his writing seems to focus solely on the hardships and difficulties of the younger generation he has crossed with an X. Microserfs is no different. While it includes many apt insights about our current technologised society, it is a one-sided account which igonores any kind of resolution or positive direction of that society. In other words, the novel is stuck in the-life's not fair supplication which, inevitably has no reward except to lead to a redundant and circular chase of our own tails. Quite frankly, it wears thin after a while, which is not to say that Coupland will not produce something of better quality in the future, its just saying that his present, while appropriate to his creative development, is a repetitive whine.
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