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Title: Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland, Robert Sean Leonard ISBN: 0-694-51951-0 Publisher: ReganBooks Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46 (167 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book was an insight to the thoughts that flood my mind
Comment: I have read all of Douglas Coupland's books (except Shampoo Planet) and this was my favorite Coupland book to date. I admire Coupland's style of writing simply because he has a way of portrying the thoughts and that fill many of our minds. At first the SEEMINGLY shallow and trashy plot nearly kept me from reading, but as soon as I started I could not put it down! As they say you can't judge a book by it's cover and I'm certainly glad I didn't. As a 17 year old I may view the world differently than some of you critics out there, but I stand by my ratings, this book was excellent. Through the obviously fictional apocolyptical events that unfold, Coupland questions the meaning of life and our purpose on this rapidly desensitizing planet. I thoroughly enjoyed and I advise anyone else out there who questions their own exsistance to read this novel!
Rating: 5
Summary: bold new step; dark, but still has his trademark style
Comment: I think this is the only book Douglas Coupland could have possibly written to usher in the new millenium. He will probably prove me wrong, however, and provide us all with more novels, short stories, and essays to enjoy well before 2000.
In the meantime, however, Coupland has again hit the mark with GiaC. This book remains true to the humorous yet reflective style he has honed over the course of his first five books, while introducing impressive and haunting new moods. Having read his other work, I recognized many token Coupland elements which I've come to expect and relish in his work: the sympathetic narrator, the cute and knowing pop-culture references; the rich description, glib dialogue, and uncanny metaphor (the list goes on). But the book also presented me with an equal amount of unexpected elements. After setting up, in its first third, a colorful yet relatively normal portrait of late-teen fun and drama, the book veers off into surreal, mind-bending, and at sometimes downright terrifying realms. Perhaps what makes this trajectory even more effective is that all through the story's supernaturality and apocalypse, he remains focused on the very human characters he's created. The middle of the book - I don't want to spoil it, so I'll call it the "Great Change" section - is particularly gripping.
The story does get a little ponderous and even sappy at the end, but I can forgive it this since Coupland was clearly trying to impart a very urgent social message, one which every reader, even if they don't like the story, will definitely be ruminating upon long after they close the book.
- JP Mohan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic portrayal of boredom in suburbia
Comment: Having grown up in the exact neighbourhood where Coupland sets most of his works, I enjoyed the minute details of this book. Life in the bedroom community of West Vancouver is about as he portrays it. Having this apocalypse set in my own backyard, all of the descriptive tools Coupland use paint a fantastic image of life in a sleepy eutopia.
Struggling to be simply ANYthing is possibly what seperates my Generation-X-ers from most other demographic groups. The relaxed prose of this novel is far more personally gripping then the usual 'hit you over the head with pointless detail' styles you find in far too many contemporary novels. While many find the climax of the story a bit too watered-down, I find that it is an effective tool for describing the feelings of the characters...what IF the world simply ended with a yawn? No big fireworks, no big Michael Bay-style destruction...just simply ended like the batteries running out.
Coupland is apparently not for everyone, but then again who is? Coupland perfectly portrays the generation he represents, and makes no apologies for it. Read this book, read it several times.
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Title: All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 1582342156 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Miss Wyoming (Vintage Contemporaries) by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0375707239 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 031205436X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0060987219 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0060987049 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 19 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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