New Coupland..
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just started genaration x for uni, so far alright. I've only read the first chapter but I loved the poetic decription of the pomegranites contrasting against the tone of disillsuinment and apathy (edited to add, I just reread that sentence and it sounds so pouncey, but it's still true 
). Doing a post modern literature module, we just looked at howl, which I was cool, gonna have to get on and read some more ginsberg, thats the trouble with studying english, opens your mind to new authors, but you've never got time to read anything other than whats on the reading list and stuff around it
). Doing a post modern literature module, we just looked at howl, which I was cool, gonna have to get on and read some more ginsberg, thats the trouble with studying english, opens your mind to new authors, but you've never got time to read anything other than whats on the reading list and stuff around it jesus, they teach Coupland at Uni now
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Just been lent Eleanor Rigby - is it one of his shit ones or one of his good ones?
Orang Utan said:
i think it's a lovely book.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
yeah, but is it any good?
yes. yes it is 
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
phew, cos I hated Miss Wyoming and All Families Are Psychotic. Can't even remember if I've read Hey Nostradamus! What was that about?
Orang Utan said:
Hey Nostradamus was absolutely wonderful - set in the aftermath of a Columbine shooting?
the two you mention are both shite.
foo said:
it's his hysterical soap opera / dumb coincidences tendencies at full throttle. It's just too OTT
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Oh yeah, I did read Hey Nostradamus! I was underwhelmed I have to say. Read the first few pages of Eleanor Rigby though, and already feel in Coupland's warm embrace, so fingers crossed. Was jpod any good, cos I've heard mixed reports about that too.
Dubversion said:
i liked both miss wyoming and all families..., although i can sort of see why people wouldn't like all families... as it is very over the top and the characters are just so one dimensional and cartoon like. i dunno whether he was just having a laugh when he wrote that one, taking it to extremes.
i read the first page of the gum thief to the missus last night. it's such a brilliant first page. i knew i'd love the book when snuffleupagus was mentioned in the first paragraph!
Orang Utan said:
Jpod was one of his lighter, more zeitgeisty ones - almost a sequel to Microserfs. I enjoyed it a lot, but it didn't have much emotional punch
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I have just reread Eleanor Rigby myself (after reading the gum thief I have started to go back through them all). Its a really touching story. I prefer stuff like that to the zeitgeisty stuff such as Jpod or Microserf's or whatever.
ETA - that is not to say I don't like them!
ETA - that is not to say I don't like them!
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Well, The Gum Thief has got some brilliant reviews (in the literary review even!), and there is a cool interview with him in todays Times book section.
