Microserfs - Douglas Coupland

I was due to write a bookreview but instead i felt like creating a blog. Have i done both? Maybe, but nothing is finished. Problem: I want to make everything at the same time. Result: Nothing becomes complete. Question: Do i accomplish anything?

Microserfs bookcover

The title Microserfs fits in totally in what the book is about. Its meaning grows in your mind during reading it.
But at first, you think it’s related to the company Microsoft which the main characters work at. We follow a group of young people that the work - life border has been erased for. The campus as a workplace- expression is alive and active. But eventuelly, that plain idea that microserfs only means the employees at microsoft seems useless, as it is something deeper he meant, that we are microserfs to the material world we live in.
The book contains so much, a whole life. It’s political, philosofic, down to life, geeky, amusing. And everything with a touch of wit.

Since Marxism is explicity based on property, ownership and control of means of production, it may well end up being the final true politik of the Benetton world we now live in.

The language Coupland uses is direct and not emotional. The structure is in diaryform, and instead of just writing I am sad to describe a feeling, he just explains the situation and the reader him/herself will figure out what’s in between the lines.

My personal experience of the book is that it’s first just funny. Then recognizible. Later on interesting and in the end, I’m thrown over. I’ve always had a feeling when reading Couplands book that it’s something more laying inunder. Not just only words, a meaning.

I FEEL A MEANING WHEN READING COUPLANDS BOOKS.