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In the beginning, he appropriately uses the sarcastic voice for which he is so well known, but as the story reveals the darker side of protagonist Dan's frantic world, Perry drops the attitude and uses a much more understanding tone. Matthew Perry, of television's Friends, does a remarkable job of bringing this abridged audiobook version humorously and heartbreakingly to life.

Maybe I was Coupland' out, I don't know.Īnyway, I love the idea of reading more from Canadian authors (Station Eleven really set the bar lately, damn.) and a lot of friends rave about Doug but I felt somewhat disappointed.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. I should try again as it's been a little bit now. Lastly I then found a copy of Miss Wyoming and I don't know why, but I just couldn't get through it. I did get through it very quickly though (one thing I like about his books.). Though the hyper-ostentatious 'Glove Pond' stuff was entertaining, the book in it's whole simply felt 'ok.' I didn't have that Microserfs feel when I closed the book. The gum Thief was interesting, more so for the style of narration than the story itself. The author, somewhere in an interview I read the other day said he only wrote it because he re-read Microserfs after years of having not looked at it and felt 'wow, I wonder if I can recreate this?' He did not. So naturally, I scoured the Earth for more of his stuff. I finished reading Microserfs not long ago and I was floored at how much I loved it.

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