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A Small and Compelling Fictional Look at 90s Startup Culture

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

August 8, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire” is one of my all-time favorite shows. When it recently ended (and stuck the landing, might I add) I was craving something very niche – a humane look at the tech world in the 1990s, and the people in that world. Thank goodness for the Net, because the Halt and Catch Fire’s subreddit developed a recommended reading list. That’s how I found writer/artist Douglas Coupland’s microserfs. It’s a novel about some low level Microsoft employees (microserfs) who decide to strike […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1990's, douglas coupland, outdated technology

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1990's, douglas coupland, outdated technology ·
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Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors

Worst. Person. Ever., Season of the Witch, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Dark Defiles, Desolation Island by Douglas Coupland, Peter Bebergal, George Saunders, Richard K. Morgan, Patrick O'Brian

November 12, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/11/12/episode-1-42-the-night-is-dark-and-full-of-terrors/ Wherein I review: 154. Worst. Person. Ever by Douglas Coupland 155. Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal 156. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 157. The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes #3) by Richard K. Morgan 158. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5) by Patrick O’Brian TRIPLE CANNONBALL ACHIEVED As my regularity falls apart like an Acapulco tourist’s bowel movements, I feverishly exploded across that third times a charm finish line.  Not quite […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: a land fit for heroes, aubrey & maturin, desolation island, douglas coupland, George Saunders, killing my kindle, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, patrick o'brian, peter bebergal, podcast, richard k morgan, season of the witch, the dark defiles, worst person ever

prisco's CBR10 Review No:158 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: a land fit for heroes, aubrey & maturin, desolation island, douglas coupland, George Saunders, killing my kindle, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, patrick o'brian, peter bebergal, podcast, richard k morgan, season of the witch, the dark defiles, worst person ever ·
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Unfiltered, pretentious drivel of the best kind

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

October 4, 2018 by tillie 1 Comment

Generation X is an insufferably privileged, pretentious, meaningless novel about three young people living in bungalows in Palm Spring during the 90’s. Nothing at all happens, except the three of them hanging around, drinking, taking daytrips and telling each other long, thinly veiled stories about themselves because it’s easier to deal with yourself as a character in a story rather than own up to your own life. “As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.” I spent this […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, douglas coupland, generation x, Mathildehoeg

tillie's CBR10 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, douglas coupland, generation x, Mathildehoeg ·
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