a brief jPod review

Okay so at a certain point in the book the whole ‘world’ that i had created in my mind – the whole image the book created… was flipped upside down. The daily lives of the characters get flipped around a lot but that’s pretty much the norm throughout. This affected me as the reader – as well as the main character. For me, this happened at one specific point about 200 pages in. I expressed my confusion and annoyance regarding this ‘flip’ on the podcast last week.

Welllll….. despite all that, I have to say that i finished jPod this afternoon on Third Beach and… it’s good. I’m not jumping for joy but I do like it A LOT. It’s relatable to me, the characters are interesting, it’s SO Vancouver and yet it still manages to be completely out of this world — taking you to the sweatshops of China and back to the Willingdon off-ramp of the #1.

Overall impression/rank (being a Coupland lover?) I’d have to say 8/10. Of course I’m going to make John read it, not so much because it’s Coupland or Vancouverish, mostly cause it’s totally geeky – we dig geeky.

btw, I’m a folder, not a crumpler.

(amazon) (john’s podcast)

EDIT:
“Congratulations! You’ve won 2 tickets to the CBC Radio Studio One Book
Club with Douglas Coupland, Monday, June 26 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, at
Vancouver Community College!” SWEEEEEETTT!!!!