61. Douglas Coupland | Hey Nostradamus! douglas coupland manages to portray religious fundamentalism as hopelessly and, at times, hilariously inadequate, when faced with the deep struggles of http://www.reading.ac.uk/SerDepts/cr/reviews/books/0007162510.html

about us contact us donate downloads ... multi-faith Book reviews Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus! Mark Foley The love that keeps us sane ... This Thing of Darkness Films Read reviews Television Read Reviews God is nowhere / God is now here ISBN: 0-007-16251-0 The unfolding story, spread over 15 years, is full of complicated relationships highlighting issues of sorrow and loss and how people deal with them in their own ways. Each of the characters has some sort of religious conviction and all of them have had to deal, with varying degrees of success, with the collapse of the belief system on which they have previously relied. The over-riding message of Hey Nostradamus! is that nothing in life is simple and that things are rarely how they first seem. Beneath its engaging and entertaining exterior lies a core that will make you consider not just what you believe but also how you view the beliefs of others. John Kentish standards

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63. Douglas Coupland Biography douglas coupland emerged in the 1990s as a novelist who seemed to capture the voice of a generation—the generation whose members were in their twenties by http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4237/Coupland-Douglas.html

Other Free Encyclopedias Brief Biographies Contemporary Novelists Vol 4 Douglas Coupland Biography Find all books written by Douglas Coupland on Amazon.com Nationality: Canadian. Born: Baden-Soellingen, Germany, 1961. Education: Attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada; completed a two-year course in Japanese business science, Hawaii, 1986. Career: Writer, sculptor, and editor. Host of The Search for Generation X (documentary), PBS, 1991. Lives in Vancouver. P UBLICATIONS Novels Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Shampoo Planet. New York, Pocket Books, 1992. Microserfs. New York, ReganBooks, 1995. Girlfriend in a Coma. New York, ReganBooks, 1998. Miss Wyoming. New York, Pantheon, 1999. Short Stories Life after God. New York, Pocket Books, 1994. Other Polaroids from the Dead (essays and short fiction). New York, ReganBooks, 1996. (with KipWard). Rocklin, California, Prima Publishers, 1998. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Generation X Generation X immediately established Coupland as a writer to watch, but it was, in itself, an episodic, inconsequential, and possibly ephemeral work. Shampoo Planet Generation X Shampoo Planet In 1994 Coupland published a collection of stories

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Join Epinions Help Sign In All Categories Books Computer Hardware Electronics Games Magazines Subscriptions Movies Music Musical Equipment Pets Software Related Deals Advanced Search Home Media Books "Douglas Coupland - JPod" Douglas Coupland - Jpod Overall rating: This product has not yet been reviewed. Write a Review Compare Prices View Details No Reviews Subscribe to reviews on this product Read Review of Douglas Coupland - JPod Review Summary About the Author Coupland's Clever Novel Gets Lost in Silliness Mar 27 '07 (Updated Mar 27 '07) Pros Amusing characters. Witty prose. Accurately depicts cubicle life. Cons Sidetracked by silly family subplot. The Bottom Line A silly subplot nearly ruins the entire story, but JPod is clever and witty enough to make it an entertaining read. Full Review Douglas Coupland's Jpod is the perfect example of what can happen when an author gets sidetracked from his main premise. What could be an incisive novel about consumerism and pop culture gets lost in a sea of random events like dead bikers and drug deals gone bad. Coupland creates six very interesting main characters and their interactions are consistently hilarious. Thus, it baffles the mind why he needed to throw in extraneous "humorous" moments that are just far too silly. These moments ruin the comic momentum established in the rest of the novel. Jpod focuses on the daily lives of employees for a game design company in Vancouver. The specific characters involved are stuck in a dead end cubicle environment known throughout the company as JPod. There is no escaping from JPod. When new hire Kaitlin attempts to contact HR, they tell her nothing can be done and she should make the best of it. And that's what the group of JPodders do. Led by the novel's narrator Ethan Jarlewski, they participate in a series of office games that make their daily lives much more tolerable. Ethan is in fact proud of himself when he's able to waste time at work. When he accidentally begins discussing company business on the phone, he says he "accidentally got sidetracked".

65. Lonely Planet By Emily Mead - Nerve.com Screening Room at, fortyish, and friendless, Liz Dunn is an unlikely heroine, even for an oddballsavant like douglas coupland (Hey Nostradamus!, Microserfs). http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/books/interview_douglascoupland/

Lonely Planet Generation X author Douglas Coupland on the new culture of solitude. Emily Mead Screengrab by Various Today on Nerve's movie blog: The Ten Worst Hairdos in Movie History. /film lounge/ Domestic Bliss by Susan Egan /photography/ The Nerve Insider by the Nerve staff Your first look at what's new and hot on Nerve. Scanner by Emily Farris and Bryan Christian Today on Nerve's culture blog: Feeling the light of Christ has never been so easy. Or so wrong. Dating Advice from . . . Volvo Owners by Will Doig Q: Where's the best place in a Volvo to have sex? A: The way back, baby. /regulars/ Miss Information by Erin Bradley Should I settle for second-best? /advice/ Horoscopes by the Nerve staff Your week ahead. /regulars/ promotion at, fortyish, and friendless, Liz Dunn is an unlikely heroine, even for an oddball-savant like Douglas Coupland ( Hey Nostradamus!, Microserfs ). But Liz's wry, crotchety commentary is the heart of Coupland's eighth and arguably best novel, Eleanor Rigby When a hunk of meteorite lands at Liz's sensibly shod feet and the son she'd given up for adoption twenty years earlier turns up in a nearby hospital, her drab, solitary life is suddenly upended. Her son Jeremy's apocalyptic visions transform Liz's once-beige existence into a kaleidoscopic circus act.

66. Bookends: JPod By Douglas Coupland JPod by douglas coupland. Reviewed by McKinley Sielaff on November 29, 2006 Genre Fiction and Literature. JPod.gif. I was a bit late in reading Microserfs http://library.coloradocollege.edu/bookends/archives/2006/11/jpod_by_douglas_1.h

@import "http://library.coloradocollege.edu/bookends//styles-site.css"; Bookends Book reviews from the Colorado College Library Archive for Review of JPod by Douglas Coupland JPod by Douglas Coupland Reviewed by McKinley Sielaff on November 29, 2006 Genre: Fiction and Literature I was a bit late in reading Microserfs by this author (only last summer because a friend was getting rid of it at a yard-sale). However that turned out to be part of its charm a look back at the pre-dotcom boom life in a cubicle at Microsoft. I had some laughs, suffered from some nostalgia, and shook my head for that time of a youthful, pre-browser, command-based Internet. JPod is in a similar vein only a decade or so later. The characters are the modern day equivalent of the Microserf technogeeks. Six co-workers at a massive Vancouver video game design company suffer the ups and downs of the gaming world, googling their way past absurd and idiotic bureaucratic input on the game they are creating. In retaliation, the JPod team lead by Ethan Jarlewski write code inserting an evil Ronald McDonald clown to undermine the kiddy-surfboard game. While the JPod crew is shameless in their amoral behavior and try to live lives beyond the boundaries of the company and their own self identified, quasi-autistic characteristics, the rest of the world is no different. Ethan's life outside of work is no less bizarre or moral a mother involved in a marijuana grow-op, a ballroom dancing father turner actor want-to-be, and a shady real estate selling brother. The story even includes a trip to a Chinese sweat shop. Drugs, murder, human trafficing, and take-out abound.

67. 'JPod,' By Douglas Coupland - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times douglas coupland s latest tour through a technoliterate but socially alienated universe. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/review/21itzkoff.html

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68. Coupland, Douglas - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Coupland, Douglas Hutchinson encyclopedia article about coupland, douglas. coupland, douglas. Information about coupland, douglas in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Coupland, Douglas

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69. Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief: New Novel Explores Characters In Aimless Trans Review of douglas coupland s forthcoming novel The Gum Thief, with analysis of coupland s output, including Generation X, Miss Wyoming, and JPod. http://canadianfiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/couplands_multiplicity

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70. The Interminable Present - October 10, 2007 - The New York Sun For douglas coupland there is no greater muse than the present. Over the past 15 years, the Canadian writer has issued a frighteningly steady — dare we say http://www.nysun.com/article/64303

GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-2780138255948105", "NYSUN_ROS_Mid_ATF_125x125"); Current Weather Recent Editions Mon Tue Wed Thu January 25-27, 2008 Search Archives: Advertise Subscribe Contact Us Email Alerts ... Print The Interminable Present Books Review of: The Gum Thief By HUA HSU October 10, 2007 A D V E R T I S E M E N T A D V E R T I S E M E N T For Douglas Coupland there is no greater muse than the present. Over the past 15 years, the Canadian writer has issued a frighteningly steady — dare we say machine-like — stream of novels, plays and essays about life in the digital age. He found his greatest success early on with books such as "Generation X" (1991) and "Microserfs" (1995), stylish experiments that suggested new ways of speaking, thinking, and writing at a time when the very nature of communication seemed to be changing daily. These, his most striking books, question whether ours is a society oriented around information, or merely around data — pure, infinite, shapeless — and scavenge for meaning in that ill-defined space in between. Mr. Coupland is an ace at describing the symptoms of our culture today — witness neologisms like Generation X and McJob — but his books have rarely risen above a state of extreme cleverness, probably because he doesn't allow any of his ideas to marinate. It is his very fascination with technology that can make Mr. Coupland seem lightweight: his subjects will always evolve faster than his writing will allow. At its worst, his novels can feel self-conscious and gimmicky, as intriguing stories are buried beneath soon-worn references or gags that announce themselves too loudly. From its Apple-picking title to its reliance on eBay and e-mail spam — often reprinted in full — for its punch lines, Mr. Coupland's last book, "JPod" (2006), felt like a novel in need of an expiration date.

71. Crush Inc. - The Gum Thief By: Douglas Coupland Back in the summer, we talked to our good friends at Random House Canada, about doing something for Doug coupland s new book. Didn t know what, just, http://www.crushinc.com/gum_thief/

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief Back in the summer, we talked to our good friends at Random House Canada, about doing something for Doug Coupland's new book. Didn't know what, just, something. We had done some work before for Souvenir of Canada , a pop-culture biographical rumination on well, you have to see it, and should really. Back to The Gum Thief . We wanted to do a series of short pieces, which would then find their way out into the world the way all things do now. There are three series, featuring passages from the novel. Roger and Bethany are the two main characters in the novel, and Glove Pond is the novel within the novel. We shot in an unspecified office supplies store, taught ourselves how to animate piles of staples and took a crash course in mid century advertising. Doug Coupland does the narration for all of them and Dave deCarlo from Sons and Daughters helped us out with sound design. Roger Part 1 View Download Part 2 View Download Part 3 View Download Credits Title: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Client: Random House Canada The Gum Thief Creative Director: Gary Thomas Producer: Patty Bradley Director: Gary Thomas Online/compositing: Greg Dunlop Production Company: Crush, Toronto

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73. The Vancouverite: Summary Judgment: Douglas Coupland's JPod Watch: Episodes 1 & Yes folks, that is right my favorite proveyor of the smug, douglas coupland, has brought his Helvetica loving quirkfest to the mothership. http://www.thevancouverite.com/vancouver_tv/summary_judgment_jpod_episodes/

Main It's Tuesday January the 15 around 11:23PM and Just got around to watching the 2nd episode of CBC's JPod . Yes folks, that is right my favorite proveyor of the smug, Douglas Coupland, has brought his Helvetica loving quirkfest to the mothership. I've watch the pilot and the 2nd episode and here's what you need to know. Oh, and yes, in case you're wondering I've read the book. The Best of the Worst. 1. Terrible video game graphics. That and some shit awful sound design tip this off as Canadian. 2. Did they deliberately chose the cinematography/lighting/look of the show? Or is this just what a scripted show filmed on a set in Canada has to look like? If so why? It looks better outdoors, but inside looks like a Canadian show. I hate that. 3. Pretty sure tonight they were at After Glow . Can't ever go there again. Douche alerts! 4. Do Coupland's little inane miscellany page filler items that seem questionable in even the books translate into television transition? At all? No. No they do not. 5. Helvetica. 6. The idea of shirtless software developers makes me kind of sick-y.

74. Douglas Coupland From HarperCollins Publishers douglas coupland was born on December 30, 1961, on a Canadian NATO base in West Germany. He grew up and lives in Vancouver, Canada. http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/2064/Douglas_Coupland/index.aspx

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