Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A Small and Compelling Fictional Look at 90s Startup Culture

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

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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 […]

Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors

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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 […]

Unfiltered, pretentious drivel of the best kind

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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 […]



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