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One star was generous, trust me.

It's hard to believe that this is the man who authored the book that made me want to become a writer. He wrote three brilliant books, at the beginning of his career, his last being Microserfs...Then I watched him fall shorter and shorter with each subsequent release.

He became a watered down version of his former self with each new book published, not unlike the de-evolution of sitcom characters who become caricatures of their original concept, left with only the qualities most praised by the masses. Shallow versions of their former selves.

The same can be said for Coupland's Jpod. This book is full of self-absorbed pretension. He does his very best to imitate a great author (young Douglas Coupland) but his attempts at bizarre situations are failed, and his inclusion of himself as a character in his book raises the self-aggrandizing bar to new heights (or lows, depending on your view)

He wastes page after page with binary codes, and random words that have little to no relevance to the "story", taking up space, and raising the page count and price of the book.

It seems as if he was merely attempting to recreate Gen X and Microserfs with different names for the characters.

This book was so bad, I wouldn't even be willing to trade it, sell it or give it away as I could never do something so malicious to another literate human being.

So there it is. One man wrote one of the best books I've ever read, and one of the worst. It may be time to wash my hands of his work completely.