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Summary: A book with no real plot or storry line
Review: Through the many pages of mindless dribble we see the true nature of Douglas Coupland. The stories that his charactars tell each other is just a path into his own subconscious. the parrall lines of the charters is just a way to express his dissatifacation with the way his life seems to be heading
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Summary: Here's life from a different perspective
Review: Ever found yourself wondering why you have to eke out a living at that corporate barn when your heart isn't in it? Or why you have to have stuff to make it known that you've made it? Shed the yuppie stuff; read this book. It'll wake you up. Generation X is all about just BEING.
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Summary: Worth a look, but too wilfully chaotic.
Review: Although there were some well-written moments in the book, and some interesting observations, in the end it's just all too clever-clever and you quickly grow tired of the book's recklessly idiosyncratic nature.The characters are Coupland's attempt to make a theatre of the absurd interesting and trendy, but the result is an inelegant mishmash of daft situations and conversations which may or may not have a deeper meaning (guess which). The margins of the text are peppered with inexplicable slogans and terms (with accompanying definitions) describing various cultural artifacts from a hyperconsumerist age. These do create a chuckle, and some of them are quite original and spot-on, but they have little more sophistication than the definitions encountered in Douglas Adams' Meaning of Liff, and you just know that, placed in a volume on their own, they would draw little attention or merit. The book is certainly an interesting time capsule and there are some moments of mirth in it, but it's unfortunately too hit-and-miss to be taken very seriously.
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Summary: A Particular Story for Particular People
Review: I get a bit defensive about this book because so many people are quick to dismiss it. They'll cite the lack of any truly innovative ideas or the multitude of pop-culture references. To some degree, I can agree with all this. The book I don't think was intended to be revolutionary, and if Don DeLillo had written all those same themes twenty years before in "White Noise", so be it. Despite all the hype, at its core, Generation X is a fiercely honest and self-conscious evaluation of a very small but nevertheless common type of person, those born to the upper-middle class who, given all the opportunities in the world, suddenly felt the pressure of having to live up to those opportunities and decided, in the wake of so many choices, not to make any. It's a scary and tiresome position to be in, and yet we watch as these characters -- in a play on passive resistance -- stand up for their rights, refusing to partake in a world which they feel has simply grown too large for their tastes. Now and again, I'll have a thought about "life" or the "world" and I'll be both sad and happy when I remember how characters in this book felt the same way.
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Summary: FANTASTIC!
Review: This is undoubtedly one of my favorite books! Coupland's prose flows beautifully and he has his hand on the pulse of "my" generation. His best ever -- one of the 10 "must reads" of this generation.
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Summary: what's the point ?
Review: I'm not sure if the 'genre' doesn't cross the atlantic too well, or i am missing the point - both this & Microserfs lack plot, development, direction, and probably most importantly, humour. Badly written, and more concerned with witty slogans and trendy terms than with offering value for money or interest. Wouldn't bother.
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Summary: Gen x, My rant on this Modern Classic. A must read for all
Review: This book touched the center of my being at the time of my first read. I first read a reprint of the story about the family caught in the year of 1974 and the guy in the basement. It reminded me of my greatgrand parents house. Where nothing had ever changed in about 30 years. I had to have this book. I found it and read it cover to cover. I knew that Coupland would be a difintive writer for the next generation. Now our generation is nothing more that a "segment" in a target market for the big money machines of the world. I used to be very angey because people didn' get it. This book is about the reality in the lives of people living in todays society. A reality the many people miss and don't get. I have encountered many people in my life that are just blimd the way the world really operates. They think that people are lazy and stupid. Aall for the reason that they thing that people don't work hard like they used to. But they don't do anything the try and under! stand why. This are the people who miss the mark and belive the hype of the "segment" media that catorgorizes Generation X into a motley index of the unexplainable. So, that those who do wish to find the true answers are misguided. This has done nothing more that just alienate us more from a world that already that does not understand. You must read this book and then reread it with your heart. You will love it.
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Summary: flawed masterpiece
Review: This may go down in history as the defining novel of its generation: a Great Gatsby or On The Road for post-Reagan America. Unfortunately, its overwhelming message for me, as a non-American, is that here is a generation that has given up. Where is the hope? What is the future for these people beyond self-indulgence and a series of McJobs? Is this what America is becoming: a land full of well-educated wasters? A good read but profoundly depressing if you give its message some thought. A brilliant novel if Coupland's vision is proved right. I hope he is wrong.
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Summary: Glipses of Epiphany
Review: This book has slow spots sparsley scattered through moments of profound epiphany. The one moment you want to take from this world stories shend shivers down my spine, and the story of world ending while at the local grocery story is both scary and full of grace. Coupland combines errie and macab possibilites with images of life that are as beautiful as any I have read. This book makes one think, and wakes up the intellect. A must read - not the best book ever.
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Summary: marketable
Review: Not matter what WE are marketable casualties. A book that seems a commercial, an MTV video, a scary-24 hours a day mall-scenario, but that's about us, our world, our extremes. We can't deny it. Maybe we can't even laugh t. What should we do? Take a look, read it once again, and understand that perhaps one day everything is goign to implode. Be careful!
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