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Summary: disappointing and puzzling
Review: I have to count myself among the other Coupland fans who were disappointed by this book. I've anxiously awaited everything Coupland's written since Generation X and was frustrated by the delay of this book (it was supposed to be out last fall). It was really not worth the long wait. Coupland's uncharacteristic descent into the Twilight Zone in the second half was interesting at first, but was so lamely concluded that it just left me wondering what he was thinking. I also found the characters pretty thin, and while I enjoyed the pop culture banter of the characters in his previous books, I was somewhat annoyed by it in this one, though I'm not sure why. This book just didn't reach me personally like his others have.I recommend that Coupland fans wait for paperback or hit the library for this one. I don't recommend it for non-fans.
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Summary: A great book. Many twists and turns.
Review: It's about death, tribalism, social and personal decay, the coming millennium, adult responsibility and the meaning of life. And it's an easy read. Deceptively complex, it's an important book.
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Summary: Not what I had grown to love from Douglas Coupland.
Review: I miss shampoo planet and i miss generation X, I miss Life After God. With GIAC Coupland not only sells the reader short with his lacklustre characters, but with the CONSTANT literal copying of lyrics be the band, the SMITHS. The title itself is a Smiths song. Don't take me wrong, I have been a huge fan of Douglas Coupland, but also a fan of the Smiths and I fail to see why the author didn't give the characters more analysis time, let them evolve. It's the end of the world folks, don't you think the people who had survived would THINK about what was going on around them, why THEY had lived and what it meant? With constant line dropping from nearly every Smith album, including lines from HAND IN GLOVE, the QUEEN IS DEAD and others, i have to wonder if the author should have turned the CD player off and concentrated more on the SUBSTANCE that he so beautifully glimpsed in LIFE AFTER GOD... you are only as good as the last great thing you did, and in this case douglas coupland could have done much better.
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Summary: not a good intro to coupland
Review: there is something about this book that left me wanting, expecting more..... an avid reader of Coupland's books, I expected a bit more, i expected the characters to go somewhere else, to get beyond the tricks that are Coupland's.....to show that he, as an author, has grown..... By the end of it all, I felt like I was just following yet another person's view of the Zeitgeist......fun, hip, frightening, and desperately in need of soe serious analyzation....
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Summary: What happened?
Review: I love Coupland's books. What happened with this one? The last half of it fell apart at the seams. If you've read all his other books, you'll want to read Girlfriend In A Coma. If you've never read anything by Coupland before, don't start with this.
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Summary: Doug's New Testiment to It's a Wonderful Life
Review: Readers of many Copeland books will recognize a lot of the same tricks he used in his past efforts. For example, to help explain his characters, he uses descriptions of each as they appeared in their high school yearbooks -- it sounds a lot like using the top-10 Jeopardy categories from Microserfs... and there's other similar touches. Like everything he writes, this is immensely readable -- regular readers will devour it in a couple nights. Unfortunately, Doug tries too hard to make a point -- to make us readers really feel his bleak view of the the present (not the future). In the end, he tries to convince us to make the most out of life -- Carpe Diem -- kinda in a Joe Vs. the Volcano sorta way. Ultimately, it's a bummer. Check it out at the library or wait til it comes out in paperback.
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Summary: Almost great...pretty dammned close.
Review: Fantastic novel. Begins beautifully and draws you in and then freaks you out. As always Coupland is very much is totally on the pulse of living *now*. He seems to articulate what I've been thinking, but just could never express. READ.
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Summary: it scared the snot out of me...
Review: (i was scared to leave the comfort of my friends) i will just leav it to the fact that i am only 18 and got the boook for my birthday but i thought it was awesome... it made me realize myself that if that were to happen to any one of us, what the hell would we do? how many of us can take a good hard look at our lives and feel like we have done something other than sell our sould to meaningless jobs when all we want to do is write poetry on an island in the carribean... luckily the kids in 'Girlfriend in a coma" got a second chance, i think this novel was more like a wake up call for us... i am way too preachy and i am not quite sure what i was talkign about in the first place... tahnks for reading and keep in touch... p.s. please forgive my typing...
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Summary: Not perfect, not for everyone, but entrancing nonetheless
Review: I know most wouldn't agree with me, but I actually really enjoyed Girlfriend in a Coma. At first, it looked like I was in for more of the same-old-same-old "what to do with our aimless lives" trademark theme of Coupland, but I was pleasantly surprised with a slightly sci-fi interjection halfway through the book, which I loved. (This is why I always force myself to finish a book, no matter how bad - I wasn't really enjoying the book a great deal until I got to part 2). Not much can be said for the characters, but the series of events in this book I found enchanting. Frustratingly, the book provides - and doesn't even *attempt* to provide - answers to the where-is-this-generation-leading-us questions it asks. That's probably half the point, but it was a little lazy and these parts of the book could have been written a little more constructively. Still, I was on the whole satisfied with Girlfriend in a Coma. Not a bad read for those who don't really consider themselves sci-fi freaks, but don't mind a bit of mystery injected into what you'd expect would otherwise be a regular drama.
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Summary: Read this last.
Review: At best, this book is preachy and strange, at worst it's a response, published as an afterthought, to a stoned, shoe-gazing dare.
You have to know going into it that this is not a good book. If you have never read a Douglas Coupland book before, stay away from this one. If, however, you have an affectionate fondness for Coupland, if you've read all of his other books and you find his struggle to reinvent a moral vocabulary *before*it's*too*late* absolutely adorable, then go for it. This book is like an eccentric aunt, and should be appreciated that way.
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