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Summary: This is not a STORY.
Review: Do not buy this book if you want a nice, happy story to read in bed. This is a beautiful book exploring the flaws of modern (accelerated) culture. If you read "Microserfs" and enjoyed it for the search for a 'meaning' to life, then you'll love this - Coupland's writing debut. Excellent.
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Summary: not what i expected
Review: I read this book as a requirement for a 1st year english class. The teacher hadn't mentioned that it was a post-modern novel, so i read it as i would read any novel. I got lost becoz i didn't understand how each chapter was supposed to relate to the previous. I kept rereading chapters hoping to find some sort of understanding. After discussions in class, i still don't understand the basic meaning of the text. Though alot of the stories told by Dag, Clair, and Andy were funny, the book doesn't really have a true meaning, in my eyes anyway. So, if you are expecting to read a book that makes sense, this is not the book to read.
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Summary: a good book but not a generation
Review: just to clear it up, coupland himself says he was not trying to name the gen X'ers and i hope people will accept that because the book should not be read for that reason... it is a wonderful story about three friends trying not to conform to "standards" but still living in a society where it was believed to be impossible to do so... read it.. and when you are done get the rest of his books they are all great...
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Summary: Excellent Style
Review: This book was the first book I ever read of Mr Coupland and I fell in love with it. Its style is direct and uncompromising. It tells exactly what the person think and feel without making long sentences.
As a result of reading this book three times I also read the other Coupland books:
Shampoo Planet, Life after God and Microserfs and the short stories on his Web-Page.
They are also fantastic.
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Summary: current review
Review: "If Douglas Coupland had lived in the Wild West I'm sure he woulda been one of them guys that always stayed in town. Sure the boy can write but could he save himself out on a prarie with a herd of buffaloes coming his way or a ratllesnake getting ready to strike. All this future stuff is okay but it don't pay no light bills. --Mexi Titican, author of RED
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Summary: DEEP
Review: This book really explores lifes little qusetions, as well as brings up some interesting ones. The working person can relate to much that is said here, and probably had thought of a retreat like Andy, Dag, and Claire's.
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Summary: Forget the title now!
Review: I read Gen. X as my last Copeland book, primarily because I was scared of the title. I had found Copeland through Life After God, etc. and after reading all of his other pieces in print, I reluctantly trudged to the bookstore and bought Gen. X. I almost felt embarassed bringing it up to the counter and handing it to the cashier. I felt like I was selling out to the ads and the marketing campaigns, etc.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
I got it home and read it cover to cover and then again and again. It's a simple book, granted, but it's worth it. Douglas Copeland has the most amazing ability to be painfully honest with the reader. It is as though his sentences whisper themselves into your ears. His style is overwhelmingly personal and certainly captivating. His writing is charming, candid and introspective.
Generation X is not about marketing campaigns. It is about three young people who are worried, scared and without much personal safety. Your now-typical Kmart shopper. Forget the title. It's a book that will make you remember your self.
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Summary: People try to put it down ....
Review: Readers who were disappointed with "Generation X" probably felt that way because they expected too much.
Although the title of Doug Coupland's nifty little tome (also the name of Billy Idol's old punk band) gave rise to an insipid label used all too often as a crutch by aging writers for Newsweek and Time in attempts to define every man and woman too young to remember JFK and too old to get excited about that new Hanson album, IT'S NOT A GUIDEBOOK FOR LIFE AS A "TWENTY-SOMETHING"!
As one of those post-Baby Boom malcontents, I've learned to not expect great things anymore. The city of Seattle can't agree on an effective way to get people across town, so why should we expect the Feds to send another man to walk on the moon, or cure world hunger, etc., etc.? And why should I expect Douglas Coupland to map out the blueprint for probably the first generation that lacks singular, defining moments like the ones our parents keep blathering about?
I didn't expect that. So I found "Generation X" surprisingly entertaining. While Andy, Claire and Dag lead relatively uninteresting lives (as far as main characters' lives go), it's their personalities and the little stories they tell that make the larger story work.
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Summary: It's like a book in which my life story was told to me.
Review: This first adventure is the best Coupland book by far, although the others are excellent as well. It perfectly mirrors many of the feelings that have been labeled "disaffected" by media and congeals them into words that succesfully describe what it is like to be of this tabula rasa generation: going into the world and trying to make something for yourself when you feel like nothing else has been left behind from which to work. The characters are so seemingly shallow they're solid, and eventually give up the individual truths they would be given for the ones they must give themselves. I won't give away the story, but this book is good enough to be required reading somewhere. Douglas Coupland is an approopriate voice for my generation, and I am willing to accept his iteration in lieu of that of the popular culture
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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK
Review: TO SUGGEST THIS BOOK IS A BLEAK CRITICISM OF THE "20 SOMETHINGS" IS COMPLETELY MISGUIDED. tHIS BOOK IS A POIGNANT LOOK AT COMING OF AGE OVER EDUCATED AND UNDERMOTIVATED. gEN X IS A GREAT READ--FUNNY AND TRAGIC. fOR ANY ONE LOOKING FOR KEROUAC LIGHT THIS IS THE BOOK. NOT TO MENTION THAT THERE IS GREAT COMMENTARY AND "DICTIONARY" IN THE MARGINS. TO TRULY ENJOY THIS BOOK DON'T GO INTO IT EXPECTING REVELATION--IT'S SIMPLY AN ENTERTAINING LOOK AT LIFE THE WAY MANY OF US VIEW IT
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