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by Douglas Coupland
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sj
sj rated it 12 years ago
Pretentious-as-fuck 20y/o sj LOVED this book, but 30something year old sj is afraid she'd want to smack younger her's face right off her face if she re-read it.I really don't even remember what I loved about it, but I think Coupland is better left to my youth.
CharlotteBuriedinBooks
CharlotteBuriedinBooks rated it 13 years ago
Weird, very weird. My first Douglas Coupland.Karen and her small group of friends - still missing their friend Jared who died of leukemia. Karen is frightened of her dreams, a feeling that she has seen something that she shouldn't have. After losing her virginity to her boyfriend Richard (on the ...
digitaltempest
digitaltempest rated it 13 years ago
"Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know. It's really serious."Liked this much better than Generation X. 17-year-old Karen goes into a 17-year-coma after having sex with her boyfriend. Talk about ways to scare you into not having sex. Well, she didn't go to sleep immediately afterwards, but she was rea...
carey
carey rated it 15 years ago
I loved the first half of this book. I thought it was a really well-written piece saying a lot about loss, grief, and loneliness and the impact of tragedy on others. But then the book just went weird, the "apocalypse" was just plain silly and the philosophy underlying it all was too simplistic for w...
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