Microserfs
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Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that they don't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech 1990s' American geek culture.
Amid a Seattle backdrop of software corporation cultishness ("B-B-B-B-Bill!") and the financial terror of San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech startups, the members of Coupland's quirky ensemble "stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hopes that when they reassemble their exploded insides they will be somebody different."
Coupland gives readers an intimate, deadly accurate, and profoundly funny view of a way of life that is quickly becoming the dominant lifestyle: friends, families, and lovers falling through trapdoors of the new elctronic order and becoming involved in an engaging, awkward scramble toward love and success in a brave new world.
Released 5 yrs ago (9/17/2018 UTC) at US Patent & Trademark Office - Madison Building in Alexandria, Virginia USA
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It was very 90s in attitudes (the gay character was actually handled with decency, but overall very romance-normative, and the emergence of Susan as a feminist was dismissive as hell) but fine with some nostalgia to recommend it, so I was planning to send it to my friend in Seattle who remembers those days. Then less than 40 pages from the end they went to Vegas and BAM multiple major plot twists BAM completely unnecessary and unprompted transphobia and BAM they incredibly unrealistically invented AAC (something my profession does better and had been doing well before the mid 90s. And a halfway decent nostalgia read nosedived into a dumpster fire. Will not be rereading, will not be passing on.