Jennifer Government
9 journalers for this copy...
It's a great book, I read it ages ago & enjoyed it, but can't remember much of the plot, so here's the blurb from the back cover...
Welcome to paradise! The world is run by American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; the Police and the NRA are publicly-traded security firms; and the U.S. government only investigates crimes it can bill for.
Hack Nike is a Merchandising Officer who discovers an all-new way to sell sneakers. Buy Mitsui is a stockbroker with a death-wish. Billy NRA is finding out that life in a private army isn't all snappy uniforms and code names. And Jennifer Government, a legendary agent with a barcode tattoo, is the consumer watchdog from hell.
This is going to Morseman , and will continue as a bookring!
Welcome to paradise! The world is run by American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; the Police and the NRA are publicly-traded security firms; and the U.S. government only investigates crimes it can bill for.
Hack Nike is a Merchandising Officer who discovers an all-new way to sell sneakers. Buy Mitsui is a stockbroker with a death-wish. Billy NRA is finding out that life in a private army isn't all snappy uniforms and code names. And Jennifer Government, a legendary agent with a barcode tattoo, is the consumer watchdog from hell.
This is going to Morseman , and will continue as a bookring!
Welcome to the Bookring for Jennifer Government: Max Barry
Member \ Location (Ring posted March 29 2005)
:-) Morseman \ UK
:-) Swanofkennet \ UK
:-) Semioticghost \ UK
:-) Tanya04 \
:-) tutleymutley \ UK
:-) Amanida \ UK
:-) Millycent \ NZ <-- Book is here (14 Aug 2005)
:-) Back to me! \ Zurich Switzerland
Small Print
:-) If you wish to be added to the list, please PM me with your details.
:-) You must be prepared to mail internationally.
:-) The bookring will kick off once we have 5 members.
:-) PM the next person on the list for their address, then send the book.
:-) It's not a race, but please read and send the book on as soon as you can.
:-) Please journal the book once you have received it (so we all know where it is) and again when you have read it (so we know what you thought of it!)
:-) If you're the last person on the list, the book comes back to me.
Member \ Location (Ring posted March 29 2005)
:-) Morseman \ UK
:-) Swanofkennet \ UK
:-) Semioticghost \ UK
:-) Tanya04 \
:-) tutleymutley \ UK
:-) Amanida \ UK
:-) Millycent \ NZ <-- Book is here (14 Aug 2005)
:-) Back to me! \ Zurich Switzerland
Small Print
:-) If you wish to be added to the list, please PM me with your details.
:-) You must be prepared to mail internationally.
:-) The bookring will kick off once we have 5 members.
:-) PM the next person on the list for their address, then send the book.
:-) It's not a race, but please read and send the book on as soon as you can.
:-) Please journal the book once you have received it (so we all know where it is) and again when you have read it (so we know what you thought of it!)
:-) If you're the last person on the list, the book comes back to me.
Sent to Morseman 29th March (UK, economy post)
Helen/Nice-cup-of-tea kindly sent me the book as part of a bookring that she has set up.
When I have read it, I will rate it and pass it onto the next reader.
Dave/Morseman
When I have read it, I will rate it and pass it onto the next reader.
Dave/Morseman
I read this book in about two days, which tells me that I enjoyed it. :-)
It's set at quite a pace and, you have to say that it's a warning about what can happen to you after a meeting round the water cooler!
I've posted it onto the next person in the bookring.
It's set at quite a pace and, you have to say that it's a warning about what can happen to you after a meeting round the water cooler!
I've posted it onto the next person in the bookring.
Received safely in this morning's post. Thank you!
I loved this - wry, funny and with a serious satirical point to make. It's undemanding reading - I was slow at first only because I was preoccupied with other things, but the whole second half I read at a sitting.
On its way to semioticghost at the earliest opportunity.
On its way to semioticghost at the earliest opportunity.
Arrived today, literally minutes after I'd finished a previous bookring - your timing is impeccable, Rosie! PMing Tanya04 for her address now.
Set in a world ruled by corporations more than the increasingly powerless government, everybody takes on the name of the organisation they serve. Jennifer Goverment, the eponymous heroine, valiantly struggles to do The Right Thing while working to exact a spot of revenge on her ex, John Nike.
The National Rifle Association and the Police provide the firepower for a no-holds-barred competition between the only two Customer Loyalty Programmes left in existence after cross-industry mergers and things get ugly. Corporate politics, a real killer marketing campaign for the latest pair of trainers and some hapless idiots add light relief to the plot which bravely embraces the ridiculous along with the scarily plausible.
The National Rifle Association and the Police provide the firepower for a no-holds-barred competition between the only two Customer Loyalty Programmes left in existence after cross-industry mergers and things get ugly. Corporate politics, a real killer marketing campaign for the latest pair of trainers and some hapless idiots add light relief to the plot which bravely embraces the ridiculous along with the scarily plausible.
Journal Entry 10 by 
Semioticghost
at By Mail in By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Semioticghost at By Mail in By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (5/5/2005 UTC) at By Mail in By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
To be sent off today.
To be sent off today.
I couldn't seem to get past the first couple of chapters I'm afraid which is a pity because I've heard great things about this book. Maybe I'll try reading it again sometime in the future.
Will post to the next in line as soon as I receive an addy. Thanks nice-cup-of-tea.
Will post to the next in line as soon as I receive an addy. Thanks nice-cup-of-tea.
Just got this in the post, thanks! - Fortunately I'm on holiday end of month so I can clear up all these ringed books... Apologies in advance for any delay. This book looks like just my thing, though.
Hilarious - and a quick read: finished it in one gloriously hedonistic, slumped on the sofa coz it's raining outside, sitting.
Wicked slapstick in a National Lampoonish sort of way, with wonderful baddies and a pretty cool heroine. Just don't forget to read the small print!
Thanks, nice-cup-of-tea XXX
Wicked slapstick in a National Lampoonish sort of way, with wonderful baddies and a pretty cool heroine. Just don't forget to read the small print!
Thanks, nice-cup-of-tea XXX
Popped in the post today and on its way to Amanida.
Arrived safely, together with a bar of CHOCOLATE !!!! Thanks tutleymutley :)
Great book: easy to read, enjoyable and funny, but also makes you think. Could this really happen one day?
I loved the map of the world at the front and would be interested in a sequel (when Jennifer moves to Europe?!)
Will be posted off to Millycent tomorrow (probably surface, so it might take a while to get there).
I loved the map of the world at the front and would be interested in a sequel (when Jennifer moves to Europe?!)
Will be posted off to Millycent tomorrow (probably surface, so it might take a while to get there).
Hi all, I thought I'd drop in here to tell you of the Jennifer Government UN-simulation game website, where we have a community of bookcrossers and their states. It's at :
http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/ and the passw0rd is 'unconvention'
The community has gone quiet for need of members, and it would be fun playing with you all - it's free, takes less than two minutes a day or maybe 15 minutes a week to join in, and they don't send you junkmail.
http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/ and the passw0rd is 'unconvention'
The community has gone quiet for need of members, and it would be fun playing with you all - it's free, takes less than two minutes a day or maybe 15 minutes a week to join in, and they don't send you junkmail.
Bad news :-( Think this book is lost and gone. Millycent thinks she posted it at the end of 2005, so I reckon it's gone astray. Bit of a shame as this is the first bookring that hasn't arrived home. Never mind, hope you all enjoyed Jennifer....
This book has washed ashore at the Lost Book Island after not being heard from for many months. This new arrival will be shown to a room and be allowed a bit of rest before being introduced to the many fun things to do here at the island.All around there are books sipping cool drinks under shady palms while other books participate in a wide variety of beach sports. There is plenty of sand, surf and sun here for all of the lost and wayward books to enjoy.
It is hoped that very soon a new journal entry will come to rescue this book from the island and send it back out into the BookCrossing world so that it may continue on its journey. It is hoped that the new journal entry will tell all the interested parties where this book has been this long time and where it will be traveling to next.
