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Title: Slightly interesting premise... falls flat after that
Review: I was given this book as a gift, so I forced myself to slog through this book, hoping there would be some light at the end of this brick. From a slightly interesting premise of a quirky group of software developers, this book spirals downward quickly into a bizarrely unintelligible plot, many waste-of-space diversions that seem to just be there to make the book look thicker, laughable attempts at sounding twentysomething ("I'm going to download some jifs") -- and the key indicator that Coupland has truly jumped the shark -- writing himself into his own story. Poorly.
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