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	Amazon.ca: Microserfs: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Microserfs is about a group of young Microsoft employees who seem to spend all their waking hours working, holed away in their offices staring at computer screens.
		Microserfs is a great novel, after reading it you may become a Douglas Coupland fan as well.
		"Microserfs" is the story of a band of disgruntled Microsoft employees who jump ship in their quest for more fulfilling personal lives and professional challenges.
	www.amazon.ca /Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0694515604 (1533 words)

	Microserfs: Of inhuman bondage
		Microserfs, Coupland's latest novel, describes a similar dehumanization of six employees of Microsoft Corp., who work in what Dan Underwood, the 26- year-old narrator, describes as a "Logan's Run-like atmosphere," where the average age of the employees is 31.2.
		The humanization and emotional liberation they experience might be genuine in the context of their lives, but it resonates like a family sitcom, where everyone derives a lesson from their experiences and the family remains intact.
		Microserfs is uneven, frothy and meandering in some spots, hilariously funny in others.
	members.tripod.com /coupland/ms17.html (733 words)

	Microserfs (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Microserfs is an homage to the hacker lifestyle.
		It follows a group of nerdy but hip Microsoft employed roommates as they escape from the evil empire and form a startup in silicon valley.
		Perceptive and often hilarious, Microserfs is a worthy successor to Generation X.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/microserfs.html (62 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Microserfs: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life.
		The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
		Throughout the course of the book, our "microserfs" struggle to really see any purpose in the job that they do - there seems to be no intrinsic value in what they achieve, only ever instrumental value.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006548598 (1539 words)

	Douglas Coupland: Microserfs
		MICROSERFS is the story of a group of young people that is quite common for our days.
		Douglas Coupland's unique style takes some getting used to, but is very original and compelling even if you don't enjoy stories written in the first person.
		MICROSERFS may not be a literary masterpiece, but is an accurate description of the world of todays twentysomethings.
	www.gesehen-und-gelesen.de /books/abc/microserfs.html (302 words)

	MetroActive Features \| Microserfs
		Microserfs is aimed at providing workaholic computer geeks with their moment in pop-culture's rapidly shifting spotlight.
		As a comment on the death of manual typewriters, the novel is told in the form of the diary of Daniel Underwood, a 26-year-old programmer.
		At the booksigning, Coupland says the real aim of Microserfs is to examine how his characters find their lives and build new family structures from the rubble of the traditional nuclear family, which has been felled by divorce and distance.
	www.metroactive.com /features/coupland.html (3336 words)

	Literal Mind. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
		Expect from "Microserfs" the same kind of glib nuggets of philosophy on life in '90s Tech America as in its predecessor -- but for a propellerhead audience.
		He and his friends are the quintessential Microserfs, the term for the clan of recent grads who work Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
		Then Daniel his fellow Microserfs eventually break free of Microsoft and discover a meaning to life that runs deeper than Big Macs and reading the phone book.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=40 (270 words)

	Spinneyhead
		It's been nearly ten years since I first read Microserfs, and it is the only book I've ever re-read three times.
		I could see no-one I knew and quickly grew tired of it (Attachments, an attempt by the same people to do a geek program, was even worse).
		Microserfs, despite being set in the, to a geek, exotic locales of Redmond and Silicon Valley, was full of characters I recognised.
	www.spinneyhead.co.uk /2006/10/microserfs.php (360 words)

	Amazon.de: Microserfs: English Books: Douglas Coupland,Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I was expecting "Microserfs" to be the witty send-up of Microsoft culture and start-up angst that it is. What caught me off guard was the surprisingly tender moments of love, life and death that Coupland manages to squeeze in amongst the humorous descriptions and dead-on depictions of life in Redmond and the Silicon Valley.
		Once you get past all that, "Microserfs" rewards you with a creative, insightful look at geek life and a fondly-crafted time capsule of the early 90s.
		However, "Microserfs" was a great narrative on geek culture.
	www.amazon.de /Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0060987049 (1560 words)

	Rohdesign Weblog \| Microserfs
		The book is about a group of Microsoft programmers (called Microserfs) and their struggles at work and their attempts to find a meaningful life.
		Funnily enough, I originally read Microserfs when it first appeared in the January 1994 issue 2.01 of Wired magazine, long before release of the book.
		I don't know for certain if Microserfs was published to promote the book, or whether the short story was so popular that it became a book.
	www.rohdesign.com /weblog/archives/000016.html (496 words)

	Microserfs on All Consuming
		“Microserfs” had good ideas and was stylistically interesting, but it really didn’t go anywhere.
		Scarlett Thomas (of “Popco” fame) writes in a similar style but she adds compelling plots to her novels which make them ever so much more interesting and fun to read.
		“microserfs” is now a part of my personal history, a place that i can visit to remind me of where i have been and how much our world has changed in such a small space of time.
	www.allconsuming.net /item/view/1561 (567 words)

	The Research Paper: Researching Cinema
		The paper should be about 1,500 words long (roughly 5 to 7 typed, double-spaced pages), and follow normal research paper standards, including MLA documentation, notes, and bibliography.
		You should expect to use at least 6-7 outside sources (at least two must be non-internet sources) that may include any of the critical articles we're read in class, the Crang book, and Microserfs.
		Use the novel to explore the potential hazards of work as it is represented in contemporary corporate culture.
	www.lcc.gatech.edu /~dpiano/spring_04_classes/1102/Microserfs_res_paper.htm (859 words)

	Microserfs, 12 Years Later \| DarrenBarefoot.com
		One of my favourites was Microserfs, a book about Microsoft programmers trying to get a life.
		On amazon they refer to it as Microserfs 2.0 … hmm we’ll see.
		Microserfs came after Life After God (see http://www.coupland.com/books/index.html for the chronology) and was the last readable book from Coupland.
	www.darrenbarefoot.com /archives/2006/04/microserfs-12-years-later.html (407 words)

	Fimoculous.com - misc - Microserfs, Revisted
		MICROSERFS TEN YEARS LATER: A look back at the Dougals Coupland novel Microserfs from one who read it and lived it, and took notes along the way.
		Microserfs Resurfaces: Douglas Coupeland is a great writer and I always come to interesting realization about myself when reading his books.
		Microserfs remains to this day one of the most important novels to my life, and one that I revisit ad nauseam.
	www.fimoculous.com /archive/post-876.cfm (2087 words)

	Microserfs by Douglas Coupland and Coupland : Booksamillion.com (0060987049, Paperback)
		Known as "microserfs," they spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" (writing software) as they eat "flat" foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to "flame" one of them.
		Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop!
		Funny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation& 39;s very strange and claustrophobic coming of age.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0060987049 (204 words)

	Amazon.com: Microserfs: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shortly after the book opens, the author joins a startup company building a product called "Oop!" Their office is a section of his parent's house and they transform it into a nerd/geek retreat.
		Microserfs is written by Douglas Coupland as the journal of the protagonist and former Microsoft coder named Dan (or as he introduces himself danielu@microsoft.com.
		The group of friends and Dan's constant observations on life and his friends throughout the book provide constant comic relief from what can seem to be an almost pointless and sometimes bland storyline.
	www.amazon.com /Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0060987049 (2127 words)

	Amazon.de: Microserfs.: English Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Microserfs beschreibt die Entwicklung einer Gruppe von Programmierern zwischen 20 und 35, die sich entscheidet, ihren Job bei Microsoft an den Nagel zu hängen und mit einer eigenen Firma eine Software "Oop!" zu schreiben, die sich am LEGO-Konzept orientiert.
		"Microserfs" ist beileibe bloß kein Buch, das bei Microsoft spielt, es ist vielmehr ein Einblick in das Leben von Programmierern und Techies generell.
		Der Reiz von "Microserfs" liegt in den tausenden von kleinen Erkenntnissen und Gedankenspielen, die man selbst schon einmal durchexerziert hat.
	www.amazon.de /Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0006548598 (1329 words)

	Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs' Review by David Louis Edelman
		The 33-year-old Canadian's novels are so accurately conveyed by their packaging that sometimes I wonder whether Coupland's just hacking out text under the whip of a nefarious cabal of publishing art directors.
		The narrator of Microserfs, one Daniel Underwood, is a software bug checker at Microsoft who types out his story in the form of journal entries on his Apple Powerbook.
		Then Daniel and half-a-dozen or so of his fellow Microserfs strike out on their own for new territory.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /reviews/coupland.cfm (667 words)

	Wired 3.07: Microserfs:Transhumanity
		"Microserfs" started out as an acclaimed short story in Wired about the life of young coders at Microsoft.
		In this excerpt, the original crew has grown in number and found the courage to leave the mother ship, move to Silicon Valley, and pursue the ultimate goal: starting up a company and building a product of their own creation.
		Michael asked the original Microserfs to come down and help him form Interiority Co.; they were joined by a number of new recruits, among them Ethan, a perpetually dandruff-laden venture capitalist (who later contracted skin cancer), and Dusty, a female bodybuilder and accomplished coder (whom Todd found at Gold's Gym and later got pregnant).
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.07/coupland.html (728 words)

	Powell's Books - by
		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.
		Living together in a sort of digital flophouse — "Our House of Wayward Mobility" — they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.
		Funny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's very strange and claustrophobic coming of age.
	www.powells.com /biblio/2-0060987049-1 (412 words)

	weschan.com: microserfs
		Snow Crash was a great escape into the past and the future; Microserfs was riveting because of how much I could relate to it.
		The similarities I share with some of the characters in Microserfs are quite eerie.
		Take, for example, Abe (who, like me, also graduated from MIT): "He seems happy to be reaching the age of 30 in just four months with nothing to his name but a variety of neat-o consumer electronics and boxes of Costco products purchased in rash moments of Costco-scale madness ("Ten thousand straws!
	www.weschan.com /2003/07/microserfs.html (226 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland, Paperback, REPRINT
		Living together in a sort of digital flophouse —"Our House of Wayward Mobility" — they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.
		Douglas Coupland was born on December 30, 1961, on a Canadian NATO base in West Germany.
		The novel's real fun is the frequent and rapidly fired pop-culture references that span the 70s, 80s and 90s...and Coupland uses them with relish.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0060987049&itm=1 (1458 words)

	Amazon.fr : Microserfs: Livres: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pourtant, derrière la farce et l'apparente déconstruction formelle, Microserfs propose un état des lieux critique d'un monde occidental en mal de repères.
		Chronique d'une révolution en marche et de ses effets sur la nature même de l'homme, Microserfs, grâce au décalage de son humour, renvoie davantage à Bouvard et Pécuchet de Flaubert qu'à une triste diatribe anti-moderne.
		Bien au delà d'une simple analyse de son univers, Microserf traite avec intelligence, profondeur et légèreté de questions existentielles.
	www.amazon.fr /Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/2264024003 (525 words)

	read Microserfs before 12/27 on 43 Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I was loaned Microserfs by a friend and had a blast reading it.
		Microserfs is a great book though not my favorite work of his.
		I start a new job on the 27th and it’s become my tradition to read Microserfs before I start.
	www.43things.com /things/view/1336 (298 words)

	The 4Crossroads: Microserfs Translation
		There is a wonderful book by Douglas Coupland called Microserfs, which comes very highly recommended by yours truly and most of the literate planet.
		Anywho, if you read right along, you'll get to a part where it'll be two pages of gibberish (in my copy, pages 308 and 309).
		Any reader of Microserfs has wondered: "What the heck is that?"
	www.usd.edu /~gbruenin/microserfs.html (578 words)

	microserfs (debris.com - online journal of matthew mcglynn)
		It’s not so much that the microserfs characters are authentic… they’re actually more pure than most of the hackers I know.
		What Coupland gets right, what he really understands, is the ideal, even though most of the folks who comprise this subculture can only strive to be as weird (hackish) as Coupland’s cast of misfits.
		Even if you’d sooner set fire to your hair than use any of the Windows family of products, you should read this book.
	debris.com /journal/86 (241 words)

	Fan mail to Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Well, after poking around on the net and reading your AOL Auditorium transcript (from whence i got this e-mail address), i feel that perhaps i'm coming to the party a wee bit late.
		i used to love his Melrose Place Update, and when Microserfs: the original Wired piece came out, i mailed him and asked if it was true-to-life.
		And THEN, i happened to see the photo essay in SPIN about Microserfs, and noticed in one of the pictures a nametag with Ian Ferrell's name!
	www.darryl.com /brushes/microserfs.html (565 words)

	[No title]
		The Microserfs of Douglas Coupland's latest novel are the men and women in the gray flannel shirts, working through the weekend.
		Boys and girls, really: These twentynothing vassals of Bill Gates's software empire live mired in bogs of arrested Oedipal development, toiling away days and nights in desperate competition for even the malignant attentions of an imperious and absent Father.
		In place of characters, he gives us caricatures - Xers spouting on about "Mattel Hot Wheels tracks," Star Trek and "that old '70s song, 'Convoy.'" In place of subtle insight wafting from the textures of his storytelling, he hammers meaning at us through the Delphic pronouncements the Microserfs are always nattering at one another.
	membres.lycos.fr /coupland/ms25.html (742 words)

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