The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own-living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world. But now there' s a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day 'coding' and eating 'flat' foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to 'flame' one of them. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) About the Author:īook Description Paperback. This audiobook is an often hilarious foray into the risks and the rewards of the high-tech world.

Halfway through the story (read as journal entries), Dan and a group of like-minded cohorts quit their jobs, pack their bags, and set out to start up their own company in Silicon Valley. Dan, not yet 30, but already facing burnout, realizes he has no life and begins keeping a journal in an attempt to sort through his personal and professional plight. 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.

***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.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. ***First impression of the simultaneous true first edition. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrappers bright. ***In a near fine colour and silver illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £9.99. Head and tail of spine very slightly rubbed. Blue front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. ***Near fine in tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. First impression of the true first UK edition (published simultaneously in the USA) - with the full number string sequence on publisher's copyright prelims page including the no.

Microserfs by douglas coupland