I’m trying to wrap up this thread of posts about Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs,” one of the best books I’ve read in a long while. Suffice to say that if you are familiar at all with Microsoft and the computer and software industries, it’s an entertaining and enlightening read – not so much about the industry, although that’s in there, but about how human beings fit (and don’t fit) into the world of computers. It’s also oddly touching, which is a pleasant surprise. While the book predates weblogs by several years, it is eerily similar in format and tone to a lot of weblogs out there now, six years later.
Here’s just one of uncounted quotable passages:
Dusty said, “I think your problem is that you think everyone else is a freak except you, but everybody’s a freak – you included – and once you learn that, the World of Dating is yours.”