Ebook {Epub PDF} Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 23, ratings · reviews. Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as "microserfs," they spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" (writing software) as they eat "flat" /5. Microserfs Quotes Showing of “ and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too.”. ― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs.  · Read "Microserfs A Novel" by Douglas Coupland available from Rakuten Kobo. They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of /5.

I love Microserfs! It has been a long time since I read it, but at the time it was released it was one of my favorite books ever. I think it is Coupland's best. 7. level 1. Luissen. 6 years ago. coupland scares me, because its mostly just my own life now that I've entered corporate hell. 2. Douglas Coupland OC OBC (born ) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual bltadwin.ru first novel, the international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and bltadwin.ru has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. They are Microserfs - six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators.

About the author () Douglas Coupland is the author of twelve novels, including Generation X and Microserfs, and several works of nonfiction, including Polaroids from the Dead. He lives and. Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in , is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length. Set in the early s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and anticipates the dot-com bubble of the late s. The novel is presented in the form of diary entries maintained on a PowerBook by the narrator, Daniel. Bec. Douglas Coupland. ReganBooks, - Fiction - pages. 43 Reviews. Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize.