JediKermit's Full Review: Douglas Coupland - Generation X: Tales for an Acce...
This is one of few books that I've bought and read and re-read and re-read, and can wholeheartedly recommend for all readers. Buy it without hesitation.
This book (Generation X) is the first book by Douglas Coupland that I read, and I believe his first work period. If I were teaching a class about "my generation" (I'm 27 now), I'd make this book required reading. Doug Coupland has written a work of fiction that covers the lives of three friends, from the point of view of one of them, which details the media-saturated, self-aware (to the point of paranoid self-analysis), over-educated and under-employed plight of many of my peers.
Coupland's style is one that I find very easy to read, very conversational. He transitions back and forth between dialogue and soliloquy, and gives us backgrounds and histories for all of the major characters. If you yourself are between the ages of 25 and 35, then you KNOW these people. Their habits, their childhoods, their schooling and careers are all things we've gone through. I really think this book will end up a generational milestone, becoming for my generation what "The Graduate" was for our parents.
If you've read "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", this has a similar flavor; I prefer Coupland's writing to Eggers', but I've read more of his work. The self-obsession of his characters isn't as distracting or heavy-handed as Eggers' own self-obsession, and it makes his characters more sympathetic. Since picking up "Generation X", I've read all of Coupland's other books....my favorites were "Girlfriend in a Coma" and "MicroSerfs". Can't wait to see what comes next!
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