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Summary: A timeless relevation about survival in real time.
Review: Coupland drops much of the pop culture references and focuses on the soul. Where does one go to place those religious impulses these days. In this book he tries to find an answer. Being the same age as Mr. Coupland, I can really relate to his hard questions
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This is my favorite book of all time. It's minimalistic, profound, funny, everything great about literature is right here. Certain parts I cannot get past without weeping. EVen after reading them numerous times.
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Summary: Enough is Enough
Review: There were some slightly profound, thought provoking passages in this book. Being in my late 20's, naturally I could relate. But after a while, I began to wonder why it was the Mr. Coupland felt that we needed to be included in ALL of his deepest thoughts and lonely banter. I too would love for the world to read MY existential life thoughts, family secrets, and childhood memories, but does anyone really care? After awhile, I just didn't care anymore. It would have helped if this "stories" were collected in a more organized semblance, it seemed a bit sloppy.
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Summary: a thought-provoking collection of short stories
Review: i read LIFE AFTER GOD when it was first published and was simply floored. here was an author whose voice spoke to me and my generation. coupland's simple yet poignant prose captured the feelings of ambiguity and confusion that many of us were feeling. the stories in this collection may seem simpleton on the exterior, but they are much more than what meets the eye. think the greatness of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by erich remarque. its complexity lays in its very simplicity.i was still in college when i first picked up the book. i recently picked it up again. the effects were still the same. what's remarkable about LIFE AFTER GOD is the sheer optimism one feels after finishing it. coupland doesn't claim to know all the answers or to grant inner peace, but what he does do is allow the reader to intensely reflect on his/her own beliefs.
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Summary: deeply moving in a poetic way
Review: i just like the fact that although coupland targets a specific age range as his audience, the message of his ruminations extends far beyond into future generations similarly raised without the backdrop of religion.
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Summary: A simple little book, but Coupland's best effort
Review: If you want to sample Coupland, start here. At the risk of dubbing this book "Chicken Soup for the Slacker," this is Coupland's best book, better than his breakthrough "Generation X," and the most honest story he's written. Actually, it's several stories spun by the protagonist, wound around journal-like reflections to his daughter after his marriage breaks up. This is the only Coupland effort where he doesn't lean too heavily on mass culture references, so it might last longer than his other works. When I read "Generation X," I immediately related to what was going on (some may not have and, alas, were lost and hated it), and I felt the same relationship to this book, although in a different way. It reads much like an epitaph to everything "Generation X" laid down before it.
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Summary: Words that Heal
Review: When Douglas Coupland tells a story it feels as though it's not just a story that he's telling, but the truth. Logic and reason float around in his head and flow out onto the page. I know this story by heart, every comma, every character. This story is a monologue in my head. It is after all, about me, and about you. He is subtle about it of course. Coupland is an old soul, blessed with wisdom and grace. He puts a smile on my face. His words explode in the static behind my eyes. They are fresh in my mind and in my heart and I have no need to look beyond the crinkled edges of these pages. I know these gentle syllables by heart, these lines are written on the parchment in my brain. These are the words, the words that heal, the words that tell us we are whole :)
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Summary: It changed my life
Review: Douglas Coupland's subject matter and charaters are so incredibly relevant to most twenty somethings. This book looks at the first generation to be raised without the church and religion as being a major influence. I can identify clearly with the characters and the situations they encounter. I strongly recommend this book to anyone born between 1962 to 1972.
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Summary: Breathtaking Ending
Review: Read it in one sitting. The "book" format gives it a sweet, minimalist air. Yes, it's not the most insightful thing he's written, and I am getting tired of his apocalypse fettish. But the final sequence is one of the most beautiful, light-handed pieces of spiritual writing I've ever seen. I love all of Coupland's work, but this one lodged at a deeper place in my heart.
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Summary: Still Thrilling To Recall Coincidences
Review: I remember how "taken" I was that I'd purchased this book while visiting in Prince George, B.C., only to discover the first story dealt with a man who had just travelled there. One of the reasons so many appreciate Coupland's art, is that he seems to have intersected our lives with his own. I heard him read in Victoria, B.C., and although he is uncomfortable at the podium, his message has "the prophetic" about it...and I hope he will continue to exmaine "us" and "himself" in that light (just as this fine collection does).
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