Quit your day job. Go on. I dare you.

Jpod is the latest novel from Canadian author Douglas Coupland. Most famous for his novel Generation X which cross a line and actually created a zeitgeist, my personal favourite is his novel Microserfs, written in the 1990s about a group of coders who leave a safe job at Microsoft to create a one-point-oh technology company.

Jpod follows microserfs but is drawn from the Google generation. We get involved with the inner high-functioning autistic lives of a bunch of games developers. It’s harder, edgier, the escapades have become more surreal and more emotionally flattened. Coupland uses the unusual technique of putting himself into the novel. It’s pure evil in a world where good and evil aren’t quick enough to keep up.

Best page. 397. There is nothing on this whole page except for one line in subscript in the middle of the page. “I’m so fucking sick of Google”.

It’s fucking brilliant. Buy it from Amazon now.

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