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Progress: 100 pages
Being a geek and a programmer, I'm liking this book but I can see why a lot of people aren't getting it. I like the pages of internet gibberish for some reason, I'm used to it. But I guess if you're not used to stuff like that from being on the internet, you might feel it's weird. But it's not as though you have to read the whole page of 'ramen noodles' repeating over and over again.
by mattg on Jun 29, 2006
Being a geek and a programmer, I'm liking this book but I can see why a lot of people aren't getting it. I like the pages of internet gibberish for some reason, I'm used to it. But I guess if you're not used to stuff like that from being on the internet, you might feel it's weird. But it's not as though you have to read the whole page of 'ramen noodles' repeating over and over again.
by mattg on Jun 29, 2006
Progress: 150 pages
It's almost impossible to describe why this is a good book but it is.
I've loved Coupland's humor since Generation X. I remember laughing out loud at the description of a cat in that book that compared its fur to an orange creamsicle. That's a weird comparison but if you know what one of those looks like, you know exactly what color that cat is.
The self-referential stuff is funny. I love when the characters are describing how Melrose Place ripped off Generation X and they all agree that something should have been done about that. Of course a "version" of Coupland himself shows up in the book later apparently. He said the version in the book is built up from all the weird stuff he's heard about himself online. I can't wait.
by mattg on Jun 30, 2006
It's almost impossible to describe why this is a good book but it is.
I've loved Coupland's humor since Generation X. I remember laughing out loud at the description of a cat in that book that compared its fur to an orange creamsicle. That's a weird comparison but if you know what one of those looks like, you know exactly what color that cat is.
The self-referential stuff is funny. I love when the characters are describing how Melrose Place ripped off Generation X and they all agree that something should have been done about that. Of course a "version" of Coupland himself shows up in the book later apparently. He said the version in the book is built up from all the weird stuff he's heard about himself online. I can't wait.
by mattg on Jun 30, 2006
Progress: 200 or so pages
Hmm, I feel the first rumblings that Coupland including himself in the book could turn disasterous. The stuff about how drinking Zima was something "Douglas Coupland would make a character do" makes me cringe. Of course I always cringe when writers put themselves in books (probably since one of the only books I've read that did it well was Breakfast of Champions which is my favorite Vonnegut book mostly because of the tricks he pulls by using himself as a character and the writer of the book and he sets a rather high bar). I cringed when I realized Steven King was putting himself into the Dark Tower books but that worked out very well on many levels so my spidey-sense might be off on this one too. We'll see.
by mattg on Jun 30, 2006
Hmm, I feel the first rumblings that Coupland including himself in the book could turn disasterous. The stuff about how drinking Zima was something "Douglas Coupland would make a character do" makes me cringe. Of course I always cringe when writers put themselves in books (probably since one of the only books I've read that did it well was Breakfast of Champions which is my favorite Vonnegut book mostly because of the tricks he pulls by using himself as a character and the writer of the book and he sets a rather high bar). I cringed when I realized Steven King was putting himself into the Dark Tower books but that worked out very well on many levels so my spidey-sense might be off on this one too. We'll see.
by mattg on Jun 30, 2006