On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
I think this was supposed to be the novel that really marked the departure from Generation X and Microserfs, and indeed it feels a lot more like Hey Nostradamus! than the earlier novels. His common themes of teenage loss, pregnancy, the loss of aims and values in twenty-somthings and so on recur. The first half is much like his other work, but then halfway through the book the world ends. The post-apocalyptic world is increasingly strange. In the end, I'm not sure it works. By no means a poor book, I still find it inferior to the other novels of his I've read.
Permalink. Posted 17:33, Sat, 28 Aug 2004.
There is also a complete index of the books.
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