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Thu May 14 00:00:00 MDT 2009
miwi1 Rating:5.0I chose the soft and we are very pleased with everything about the bed. I purchased it for my son, and we all like it. We are even considering a larger one. It does tend to hold in more body heat making it a little warmer than a regular mattress once you lay on it a while, but it does not seem to be really hot feeling like I had expected. Although it is soft, it is firm enough that you don't sink completely down into it yet you don't feel like like you are sleeping on a board either. There was no smell at all to the mattress that we received and it took shape within a hour or two. It is easy to move around and suits our needs very well.
Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 MST 2014
Amr Rating:4.0Mattress came quickly and was in good shape. Did not smell awful after a day or so. Perfect for my daughter on a daybed. But if a adult sits on the edge of the edge prepared to sink pretty well (I am not huge but definitely felt like I was going to slide off the bed since it sunk). It does reshape fairly well though. For the price is just what we needed.
Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 MST 2014
rosetony7 Rating:5.0Finally a good, quality twin mattress for my grandson!! He sleeps through the night now on this firm but gentle twin mattress and it shows better quality than mattresses at twice the price!!
Mon Jul 19 00:00:00 MDT 2010
jdierk730 Rating:5.0Eventhough this is advertised as a replacement XL twin memory foam RV mattress bed system it is great for the twin xl platform mattress frame I ordered it for. It arrives in 3 separate boxes with each foam mattress folded in half. Each is labled soft, medium and firm. Firm is placed on the frame first, then the medium and then finally the soft on top. A mattress cover comes with it and after placing it on the mattrresses you cannot tell it is not a regular mattress. It is extremely comfortable. I have slept on it and so have my teenage grandsons. I highly recommend this system to anyone.
Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 MDT 2014
schwake Rating:4.0It was everything I read on the reviews. I didn't experience the overwhelming smell (there is a slight one when removing the plastic covering, but went away within a few hours) and it expanded within an hour to it's full size. I have recommended it to a couple of people that were looking for an affordable bed that was of quality. Can't beat the price anywhere around here!!
Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 MDT 2014
momdeal Rating:5.0Sleep Sync Raspberry 7-inch Twin-size Memory Foam Mattress Great bed that kids love and it is what we expected.
Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 MST 2011
mimiche1162 Rating:5.0It was very easy to set up the bed. The mattress is quite comfortable. I am only missing a headboard. Easy to store.
Thu Apr 11 00:00:00 MDT 2013
nkp01 Rating:4.0This mattress is for a guest room bed. It is ultra firm, and at first, I thought it would not be comfortable at all. However, after using it for a nap, I discovered that it is fine. It will serve our purposes perfectly. I purchased a different mattress from a local store for the other bed, and spent more for that one, which is no better than this one. This was a good value.
Sat May 25 00:00:00 MDT 2013
bgr19 Rating:5.0I ordered the medium firm mattresses and they feel great. Very happy with this purchase. They were shipped very quickly.
Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 MDT 2011
receipt Rating:5.0We needed a way to convert a California King waterbed mattress to a Normal King Mattress. Two of these Twin XL placed side by side is an Exact Normal King. When we ordered, we didn't get any shipping confirmation for 3 days, which was unsettling, but then a shipping confirmation came from Ontario, California, so we knew we were OK. The mattresses arrive in round cardboard packages that look like a big heavy sleeping bag, They are easy to open, then expand in several hours to their full size. We have been sleeping on them for a month now, and they are wonderful. Buy this mattress -- you will not be disappointed. To me, they feel like a brand new hotel mattress, very comfortable, nice and firm. When you sleep in one spot for an hour, they kind of indent, it feels really nice, then they spring back quickly when you move. We live in Salt Lake City, and mattress stores charge about 4 times as much for their mattresses that are roughly similar to these. Overstock takes PayPal - so that is really good for us - (PayPal buyer protection) I am an experienced mail order and ebay seller/buyer, so listen to me, I'm not full of crap. Close your eyes and just buy this mattress, period.
Tue Apr 24 00:00:00 MDT 2012
mbzagjc Rating:5.0We were looking for a mattress to fit a specific-sized custom-made bed platform and wanted to get a quality product that would last. We found the twin Sarah Peyton Convection Cooled Soft Support 10" Memory Foam Mattress on the website, and it matched all the criteria we had in mind. After we placed the order, we received a confirmation email and were promptly notified that the item had been shipped. The mattress arrived just a few days later and is being happily utilized by our daughter. We are very satisfied with both the mattress and Overstock.com.
Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 MDT 2015
pjones04 Rating:5.0This is our second memory foam mattress. We enjoy the firmness, softness and overall quality of this mattress. We will buy another.
Tue Oct 11 00:00:00 MDT 2011
hubb31 Rating:4.0I initially purchased one of these to see the quality and if it would suit my needs. After its arrival I found it to be perfect for my needs. I purchased a second mattress of the same size and am in the process of fabricating a frame to make this into a L-Shaped sofa for my apartment. It will give me plenty of seating area plus two additional sleeping spots for when the friends are too tired....to drive home. Good value and saves me over a thousand on buying a sectional sofa. Free shipping a big plus and Bill Me Later option gives me six months to pay off.
Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 MST 2015
laraea Rating:4.0Ours had a smell, lasted for weeks, was for a guest room. Used lots of baking soda, a fan and open window to try to get the smell out. Think the smell was the result of how it was folded and stored before we received it cuz we also ordered 2 twin mattresses at the same time (all guest beds) and neither twin had a smell. We ordered 1 soft (queen) and 2 firm twins for a day bed, wish we had ordered all firm as the main difference is that you don't sink in as deep.
Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 MST 2015
peartz Rating:4.0This mattress is not memory foam. I think I misinterpreted that when ordering. It is very firm, but not uncomfortable. It might break in overtime if someone heavier than my 36 lb daughter was sleeping on it. She is used to firm since all toddler mattresses are for safety and this would be great for a day bed since there is little motion transfer and would hold a day bed cover well.
Tue Mar 08 00:00:00 MST 2011
basnas Rating:5.0we are using this mattress in our son's old bedroom which he stays in when he comes to visit . he also owns a memory foam mattress and said this was just as comfortable as his at home . I will be having a cover made so this may be used with bolsters as seating for TV viewing. I love memory foam !
Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 MDT 2014
Barbp Rating:5.0Love this mattress, it is so comfortable. I would recommend this for a new mattress for kids, it is a great price too.
Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 MST 2013
alfrancis99 Rating:3.01.) This was packed in a cloth bag with NO PLASTIC wrapping the actual mattress. It was raining heavily in Atlanta when delivered so you can imagine the condition of the mattress when it was delivered. It had to dry out on the bed. Big disappointment 2.) Very lumpy. I expected a little better sheild from the coils, but you can definitely feel them through the memory foam. 3.) Great price, but I'd bump it up a notch to a more expensive/all memory foam next time if I could find one. I would have bought a twin in: http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Pillow-Top-12-inch-Full-size-Memory-Foam-Mattress/6056322/product.html which I own FOUR of if I could have. MUCH better mattress for slightly more expense. 4.) Good for the bunk bed in my 5 year old son's room - he can use it for a few years until he moves into a larger mattress. He's lightweight (50 pounds) so he won't feel much until a few years down the road. However, once he hits middle school I'll replace with a much better mattress and use this one for occassional visitors in his room. 5.) Since it's reasonably light weight (I'm a 47 year old reasonbly fit woman) I lifted it in the bag onto the top bunk and stripped the packaging off on the bed and let it unfold there. It's still inflating (we received it a few days ago) and drying out from the fiasco with the rain. 6.) I'd spend a little more next time and get a better mattress.
Tue Dec 27 00:00:00 MST 2011
lexxiedoodle Rating:5.0some complained of a bad odor there was no odor with this product we live in a 5th wheel trailer we got this to go up in our loft for a grand daughter to sleep on. She can hardly wait to go to bed on this new mattress. loved how it came wrapped up and was easy to put in the loft and plumped up after the wrapping was removed. great product we are very happy with it
Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 MDT 2014
cone123 Rating:5.0The Twin mattress I ordered was shipped very quickly in a large box. It's quite heavy. My husband carried it upstairs for me but I was able to open it and set it up by myself after that. The mattress is wrapped in plastic as well. easy to open. Once out of the bag it rolls out and opened to 12 inches within a few hours. It has a beautiful cover made of bamboo fabric. It has NO smell as others I've read about, no need to air out the room. It is comfortable not real soft or really hard. It is very well made. For the price of a little over *** dollars you can't go wrong! Out in retail I found a 7 inch memory foam they wanted *** dollars for. It was not near as nice! This is for company and grandchildren. Its perfect. Thank you again overstock. I Love you!
Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 MDT 2015
Jennifer L. Rating:5.0It is really compterbal. I like it a lot. overstock is a web site to buy a mattress. They have great prices.
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A decade ago, choosing a memory foam mattress was easier because there were so few brands and options. However, as the prices of memory foam mattresses have dropped, more brands have begun producing memory foam bedding, and choosing the right mattress has become more challenging. However, one factor remains constant throughout the different brands: memory foam density. Memory foam density, expressed in pounds per cubic foot, makes a big difference in the softness, durability, support, and price of your mattress. Knowing a little about the different densities of memory foam mattresses can simplify the buying process and help you find the memory foam mattress that's right for you.
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Many people have heard of memory foam mattresses, but few can tell you what they are made from. Memory foam is a combination of polyurethane and additional ingredients which increase foam's viscosity and density. It was originally developed by NASA to improve the safety of their aircraft cushions, but now, it's used in mattresses, pillows, and other bedding. The soft and inviting material is what makes these mattresses so appealing to people looking for a good night's sleep.
Anyone who is looking for the ultimate in sleeping comfort will be hard pressed to find an option better than a memory foam bed. Getting a full night's sleep depends a lot on the support of your mattress, and memory foam mattresses offer luxurious, modern comfort. You may have questions about this material, as many people shopping for memory foam do. Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about memory foam beds, so you can shop for your new mattress with confidence.
Air mattresses aren't what they used to be. Nowadays, air mattresses offer a slew of sleep-inducing features, like pillow tops, memory foam mattress pads and even built in MP3s, vastly improving on their giant-sized, pool-toy predecessors. As features improve, air mattresses, also known as air beds, are becoming more and more popular and are being used for a number of different functions, even in place of regular mattresses. Keep reading to find out the top five ways that you can get the most out of your air mattress.
Foam mattresses can range in design from luxurious and thick memory foam beds to roughly-cut slabs of camping foam. Even some pet beds are made with foam. What all foam mattresses have in common, however, is an ability to absorb liquid at an astonishing rate. Unfortunately, accidents happen, and they often happen on foam mattresses. Take a look below to learn how to clean foam mattresses.
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Foam bedding is becoming more and more popular, but traditional memory foam is usually the often the only type you hear about. Did you know that latex foam bedding has been available for years and is preferred by some to memory foam? Here is more information about the strengths of both traditional memory foam and latex foam, so you can decide which bedding is right for you.
One sleepless night may not seem like a big deal, but what if it becomes many? Without sleep, you lose energy, your health suffers, and the quality of your day-to-day life suffers. Gel memory foam is a soft, durable solution that can help you get back the quality sleep you've been missing. These products -- pillows, mattress toppers, and mattresses -- provide comfort and support to help with several sleep-related problems.
Are you having trouble sleeping? Gel memory foam could be the solution. It's similar to traditional memory foam, but the gel adds benefits that many people find to be the secret to comfortable, restful sleep. Because it's a new product, you may not be sure what to look for when you're shopping. This information will help you find the gel memory foam mattress topper, pillow, or mattress that could help you get a better night's sleep -- every night.
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Improving your mood can be as easy as investing in a memory foam mattress. These supportive mattresses cradle the body, alleviating the tossing and turning that keep you from getting a full night of sleep. You may not realize just how much interrupted sleep is costing you. If you find yourself feeling tired and drained even after getting eight hours of rest, it's time to look into purchasing a foam mattress. Before you start shopping, consider these tips on buying foam mattresses.
Many factors can contribute to sleep loss, but a good place to start fixing the problem is your mattress. When you are looking for the right one, it's important to find something that provides both support and comfort. The growing trend in bedding is memory foam. Its ability to conform to the body makes it an ideal purchase for those who suffer from back or joint pain; however, memory foam mattresses aren't all the same, and the prices can vary greatly. No matter what your budget is, though, there is one out there for you.
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nmurray Rating:5.0This mattress is fantastic. I would highly recommend. I spend much more money on my queen size mattress and it is not nearly as comfortable as this one. I am ready to steal this one from my son! I would highly recommend this mattress! You won't be sorry if you purchase this mattress, except that you may never want to leave your bed!
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aryanna d. Rating:5.0I was a bit apprehensive- price was so cheap I was afraid it would disappoint but I figured I could always return it. It did not disappoint! 3 months later I am still loving this mattress- best bed I've ever bought
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Khisa L. Rating:5.0I paid $$$$ once for a bed this comfortable. Not at overstock!!! I love my mattress, the price, the deliver. Awesome purchase.
Apr 29, 2015
adrianf Rating:5.0This mattress combines comfort above all with fantastic value. Used it in my rental properties and have nothing but positive feed back.
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adrianf Rating:5.0Super comfortable. Great price!
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Energy 64kJ |
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Carbohydrate sugars 1.00g |
Carbohydrate Total 2.00g |
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Don't even get me started on this outfit.
According to this news story, R. Kelly may finally be heading to trial to face charges on child pornography...which is a really spruced up way of saying "this jackass not only peed on a 14-year-old girl then slept with her, he also videotaped it for his own enjoyment," but that would read really long on a court docket, so they just call it child pornography. Separately, is that the best prosecutors can do at this point? If anybody I know peed all over a 14-year-old girl, slept with her, videotaped it, held private screenings of said video with all of his friends, then got CAUGHT, they'd be under the jail by now---but not R. Kelly. So I'm skeptical if Kellz is truly on his way to trial in September as the "Pied Piper (eww) of R&B" has practically finagled his way out of these charges for half a decade. There have been a long list of delays in this case and at this point, the teenager in question here is now a full blown adult. It will be interesting to see how Kelly and his team of lawyers plans to delay the trial yet again, but for a 40-year-old man to run around calling himself the Pied Piper is just weird. Especially one that makes a fortune off of a series called "Trapped in the Closet," which may explain the outfit above.
Maybe he'll duck the law continuously, though you'd think that if dude was really innocent, he'd be eager to get to court and prove it.
Whatever. In a secondary note, why do pedophiles make such good music? Somebody help me out with this one cause every time you're "Stepping in the Name of Love" at a party, don't you feel a little dirty?
If so, here's another reason to sing along and feel like you need a shower afterward. --Jonathan Cunningham
If you're still reading this, can someone explain how a man that surrounds himself with women this fine needs to cruise his old high school in Chicago looking for girls?
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They were looking for the child the night before, but didn't contact
police. Instead, "through the business owner, police were able to make
The only reason I can even fathom are that the parents
don't want the police to know everything. Maybe they have another reason.
Maybe they simply aren't the most capable people in terms of dealing with
an emergency. But I'm inclined to think that even the least capable anyone
could be, that they would have thought to call the police. Maybe they are from a
different country with different ways of dealing with such an emergency.
For the boy's sake, I hope it's something else. But if
it's because of neglect or abuse or some other criminal activity, then I
hope the boy can be placed in a loving home where he will be properly raised and
cared for. It's sad these things even happen.
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Time for some parenting classes.
- 2:42 a.m. May 12, 2013
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Sadly, there are parts of Our Country where the local Police are not trusted,
especially by Minority Citizens, and recent Immigrants, legal or not.
it. Lived through it. Deal with it.
- 7:09 a.m. May 12, 2013
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Ok... everybody rush to conclusions. It's not our place to judge. Especially without facts.
- 9:11 a.m. May 12, 2013
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Willybee71 has a point...not having all the details of who this boy is, we
really can't judge
what the circumstances are that brought about this
event. Thankfully someone cared enough to
stop and help this child. I can
hardly imagine the fear of both parent and child.
A mother's day
miracle we can appreciate.
- 9:43 a.m. May 12, 2013
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This would be a non-event in the decade I grew up in. A lot of children try running away from home for reasons only they know of. I wouldn't jump to conclusions in a case like this.
- 9:46 a.m. May 12, 2013
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Let's not judge, let's just be thankful he is safe.
- 11:04 a.m. May 12, 2013
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They may have been new to the area and the boy did not remember his address, or
he had not lived
there long enough to memorize it. Too many details are
missing to be able to make a judgement.
- 1:42 p.m. May 12, 2013
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The young lad riding alone brings back memories of 88 /89 years ago when I would ride my pedal cycle for - at times - up to twenty miles from home. A large part of the travel would be on the main highway. However, in this case things would have been a lot different as in those days there was but little motorised traffic. I am now approaching my 96th. year.
- 2:31 p.m. May 12, 2013
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The article states that she had reported her son missing to SLC police on Thursday. Funny we are so quick to judge yet many thought it was perfectly OK to leave a child the same age alone at lagoon without contacting any authorities simply because he wasn't at the designated pick up stop. That child could have easily been kidnapped.
- 3:07 p.m. May 12, 2013
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I am passing judgement. Let's hope this incident is fully
A nine year old riding a bike along a busy freeway. Really.
- 4:37 p.m. May 12, 2013
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Did you read a different article?
This article
says the police were not notified. It doesn't say anything about
"Thursday" at all. It says the couple looked for him Friday and the
business owner called Saturday. It says that because the police were not
notified of a missing child they were delayed in reuniting the family.
The parents may or may not be unfit. I'm not judging cause I don't
know. Even if I did know, I would hold no malice toward them. The only thing
I'm concerned about is the future if this child. If there is reason to
suspect the child may not be returning to a safe home or even one with
responsible parents... then they boy may need to be removed or the parents may
need some recourse to help them learn responsibility.
Some of us are
not judging them at all. I'm stating concern for the kid and that we should
consider all options and investigate the events that lead to this to provide the
best future events we can give to this child. I think that sounds pretty fair
for the child and everyone else.
- 5:02 p.m. May 12, 2013
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Ha Ha !!! Perhaps the kid was riding his bike along a
major Interstate 'cause that's the route that the Traveling Circus
takes !!!
Was the word Bindlestiff ??
Within this generation,
9-year old kids will be running away from home to visit some Internet Game
Programming Convention with a Laptop or Tablet Computer strapped to their bikes
- 2:58 a.m. May 13, 2013
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Sounds like some of the commenters can't get the facts straight. The article said they HAD reported the child missing to police on Saturday. I don't know why they waited until Saturday to report it. We need more information before passing judgment.
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"About 7:30 p.m. Saturday, a Salt Lake City business owner contacted police and said a woman had been looking for her son the night before". It just sounds like she was looking for her son and didn't want to involve the police. I was a teenager once...got slapped in the face for saying "This just sucks". I got out of the car in the middle of the intersection in some (unknown to me) part of SLC and ran in whatever direction was away from my parents because I didn't know why I got slapped in the first place. Things happen, kids are kids. I've had my share of poo in life and don't trust the police or dcfs BUT, this situation sounds like it's going to be fine either way. I'm happy the boy is fine and the Mother knows where he is. I hope they are reunited soon, (as long as the circumstances aren't abusive in nature).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Generation Bee,
This review is from: Generation A (Hardcover)
Douglas Coupland's Generation A sees a not-too-distant world of ours devoid of bees and therefore things like fruit and flowers. A strange drug called Solon is sweeping the planet, it's effects rendering the user carefree and unafraid of the future with a deep inner peace that stops them interacting with other humans and makes them seek solitude. Highly addictive, the drug is wiping out human creativity as well as the bees.
Five people, seemingly random, across the planet are stung by bees. They are suddenly whisked away for testing and become instant global celebrities. Shortly after being released back into the world they are recaptured and taken to a remote island off the coast of Canada and made to tell stories, the idea being something in the telling of stories releases a protein into their blood and the mixture could become a cure for Solon. Well, damn the negative reviews, because I loved it! Generation A mixes two of Coupland's strengths - his humour, like in Microserfs and jPod, and his humanity, like in Eleanor Rigby - together with his semi-realistic visions of futuristic society. The result is his best book to date. If you've read Coupland before you'll know his love of employing gimmicks into his stories. The reams of numbers in jPod showing pi or the novel within a novel in The Gum Thief or the new dictionary slang of Generation X; in Generation A, the second half is taken up by short stories told by the characters. While this might irritate some readers (short stories are notoriously niche) let me tell you that the stories are brilliant. They not only fit into the themes of the book but are also great stories to be enjoyed for the sake of stories. I won't go into too much analysis here but what I got from Coupland was his message of humans telling stories to humans is essentially what makes us human. While Solon (so alone?) is a futuristic drug that induces in the user the feeling of having read a thousand books in an hour, telling stories engages the teller and the listener in the present and keeps us together. The overall message is of stories and company and how this is the only antidote to the growing isolation of humans as a result of the tidal wave of technology. Read without any subtext, the book is a joy for the reader and a masterclass in writing from Coupland. The swift pacing is kept up throughout and the world he portrays, while different, retains an eerie sense of familiarity. Generation A is accessible for new readers and old and while Coupland has his ups and downs (to be expected from a writer whose approaches and ideas towards fiction changes from one book to the next) this is most certainly a brilliant novel and easily one of his best. Amazing stuff, highly recommended.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well, I loved it,
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This review is from: Generation A (Hardcover)
I've been a fan of Coupland's since "Girlfriend in a Coma" was published, and since then have read all of his work. Personally I've loved almost all of it since "Girlfriend...", although "JPod" and "The Gum Thief" were slight lapses, albeit still enjoyable, but his earlier output hasn't appealed to me quite as much. "Generation X", although lauded by many as his best book, has never really grabbed me on any of the three occasions I've read it, hoping to find that certain something I'd somehow missed.
"Generation A" is not a sequel to "Generation X", and it grips from the start. Imagine a future where bees are extinct, but somehow five people around the world (USA, Canada, France, Sri Lanka and New Zealand) are all suddenly stung. Helicopters or military transport planes land, figures in hazmat suits step out, and the five individuals are taken away, drugged and bound if they struggle. When they come to they find themselves in research facilities, furnishings stripped of all brand identities, and each day they have blood samples taken, a computer generated voice talking to them in an accent of their choice, asking them questions about themselves. They are eventually released, but are soon recalled to an island off the coast of Canada and instructed to tell each other stories... I found the first half of the book utterly gripping, wondering who the people were, how and why they'd been stung by a seemingly extinct species, and why they had been rounded up. I was a little concerned at the start of the second half as I thought the individual stories (not reminiscences, but short pieces of fiction) would drag and become repetitive, but this was far from the truth - they were all hugely enjoyable and incredibly created. What was the purpose of this though? Ahhh - it all comes together beautifully in the end, and any hints in this review would ruin the surprises. Yes, it's true to say that most of the narrators "sound" the same as each other, but don't all of Coupland's characters all ultimately sound a little like Coupland? The reviewer who complained about the mentions of "Finnegans Wake" clearly didn't understand why this was mentioned (it is explained in the book), and as for the occasional bit of weird grammar, well, the book is supposed to be the sound of people talking, inventing stories on the spur of the moment, and not all of us speak perfectly all of the time. "Eleanor Rigby" used to be my favourite Coupland novel, but I think this has trumped it. I loved it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Readable but unambitious Coupland,
This review is from: Generation A (Paperback)
Douglas Coupland seems to be the type of writer around whom cults aggregate. He attracts the kind of fan for whom a favourite writer can do no wrong. At his best, he is funny, intelligent and sharply observant, but uncritical praise does nobody any favours. At his worst, he falls easily into slack self-parody. 'Generation A' is not Coupland at his worst, but it's far from his best.
The book isn't in any meaningful sense a successor to 'Generation X', except as it offers yet another group of young people who are forced to deal with a change in the Zeitgeist. It's set in the near future, and this is a future that offers no very radical departures from the present. The environmental problems have worsened - the bees, and some other insects, have vanished or are in terminal decline. The human addiction to virtual reality and electronic communication has become more deeply rooted. A variety of technological quick fixes - emigration to Mars, a drug that 'cures' the human inability to tolerate solitude - are on offer to address the evident growing disconnection between humanity and the real world. What follows is part dystopian fantasy, part thriller. Five young people in different parts of the world are stung almost simultaneously by bees, and the race is on to discover whether this is the turning point in the world's decline, for better or worse. Readers familiar with Coupland will find few surprises here: if you've enjoyed his recent books, particularly 'Girlfriend in a Coma', it's likely that you'll enjoy this too. For me, it falls well short of his best. Like too many of Coupland's novels, it begins well and then seems to lose energy around the halfway mark, before drawing to an untidy conclusion. It invites comparison at different points with Vonnegut, DeLillo, Houellebecq and Richard Powers, without ever doing enough to suggest that Coupland might be in the same league. It's never less than readable, and sometimes amusing, though I suspect that the patience of other readers will be strained by the long section in which the five bee-stung protagonists are obliged to tell amateurish stories-within-the-story. Never has the veneer of Coupland's postmodernism seemed thinner or the literary nods - in this case to Boccaccio - more strained. If you're completely new to Coupland, I'd suggest starting elsewhere. Try 'Life After God' and 'Eleanor Rigby' for the more serious stuff: 'Microserfs' and 'J-Pod' for the cultural satirist.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Generation A,
This review is from: Generation A (Paperback)
Generation X, a tale of youth in revolt against an increasingly consumerist society, was Douglas Coupland's hugely successful first novel and he has returned, with moderate success, to the same style of framed narrative for his most recent offering, Generation A. Generation X had such a massive cultural impact that its title became a much bandied about moniker for several generations but, just as society seemed to the central characters in the novel itself, the phrase "Generation X" quickly seemed false, predictable and unsatisfactory. In this spirit, during a commencement address he was giving at Syracuse University in 1994, Kurt Vonnegut commented: "Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all tremendous favours when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago". So it is almost with a sense of rebellion against Generation X that Coupland named Generation A.
Generation A is set in the not too distant future, approximately 2020 it seems, where things are pretty much the same as they are now save for the fact that bees are presumed to be extinct. While the major implication of such a rapid extinction may well seem clear, Coupland also focuses on the minor effects. When a group of meth addicts are encountered by one of the characters, it is remarked that they would once have been heroin addicts but of course "poppies require bees". Aside from the absence of bees, the secondary difference to contemporary society is that the majority of the world's population are addicted to Solon, a narcotic that "mimics the solitude one feels when reading a good book". Given the supposed downturn in the number of people who regularly read books, it's quite surprising that a drug with such an effect caught on really. Coupland bases the narrative of Generation A around a group of five characters who each take turns to narrate the chapters. Zack Lammle is an Iowan farmer with ADD who enjoys driving a combine harvester while naked and carving phallic images into his fields so that they can be seen from space. He also offers a nice, pithy introduction to the other four main characters of Generation A: "Sam was a fox, Julian looked like a snotty arcade rat, Diana looked like a dental hygienist and Harj looked like a mild-mannered 9/11hijacker with a heart of gold". On first glance they may seem a rather disparate group but it quickly becomes clear that they are united by a love of storys, an in-depth knowledge of pop-culture and an overwhelming belief that life isn't treating them as well as it should. More importantly, all five of them have recently been stung by bees. Once word of this mass stinging gets out, all five stingees are quickly rounded up by government officials and placed in isolation centres where they are forbidden from accessing novels and popular branded items and are thoroughly medically examined. Despite extensive searching, scientists are unable to locate any hives in the areas surrounding the locations where the bee stings occurred. The five latent consumers are released but, having been offered no explanation for what happened to them, find themselves drawn together despite their cultural and social differences. Eventually they are relocated by the government once again and are settled on a remote Canadian archipelago where they pass the time by telling each other stories. Generation A is a good novel but not a great one. Coupland seems to be repeating the plot devices and characterisations that brought him great success with Generation X but he doesn't seem to be building on them. There was a distinct sense that Generation A had been done before. Coupland has excellent ideas but they don't always translate into an excellent, cohesive plot; it can often seem that he sabotages his own storyline by throwing in an unnecessary quip or reference. Having said all that, while long-term fans may be disappointed, Coupland is a superbly poetic writer and Generation A is an enjoyable read that has moments of magic.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Channelling Palahniuk?,
This review is from: Generation A (Kindle Edition)
Whenever I pick up a book by Douglas Coupland, I suspend any expectation of a conventional plotline or narrative and brace myself for the quirky. In this sense, "Generation A" doesn't disappoint with its near futuristic setting and the premise that bee stings in a world where bees have become extinct become a sort of national and scientific phenomenon.
The 5 characters who are as disparate in terms of geographical background as they are in personality (though they are all twenty-somethings, and presumably the Generation A of their times) headline each chapter, and the first part of the novel opens promisingly enough, when their shared experience creates a kind of bond between them, even as they are prodded and pricked as individual scientific experiments by corporate scientists who try to establish a cause to this unlikely occurrence. However, by the middle of the novel, one gets the idea that Coupland has written a whole bunch of (engaging enough) short stories which he felt he had to plug into the novel in a self-conscious attempt to "[explore] new ways of storytelling in a digital world" (as the inner flap of the book jacket boasts). He does explain the reason for these stories that the characters tell one another and tie up all the loose ends in a shocking way at the end of the novel, though by then I felt disengaged by the narrative. In some ways, I felt he was channelling Canadian contemporary Chuck Palahniuk's earlier novel "Haunted", where a group a characters are bundled into a secret writers' retreat, though that was a far more grisly work, and I would be loathe to suggest any plagiarism on Coupland's part, since the settings and storylines are vastly different.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quirky, Funny, but Uncohesive,
This review is from: Generation A (Paperback)
Douglas Coupland's 2009 novel Generation A is a mix of futuristic sci fi thriller and ironic contemplation of the nightmarish potential of technology gone mad. It is set in the near future in a time of technological addiction - you tube, google world maps and constant internet contact with strangers are ubiquitous. Many of the population have resorted to an anxiety-assuaging drug called Solon, which allows them to live in the present and not worry about the future. There is a major global crop failure: modified corn grows abundantly and is responsible in the US for an even more serious obesity problem than exists currently, but fruit is scarce, fruit juice being largely synthetic, and real, crisp apples exist only as a product of boutique apple ranches where hand-pollination is carried out. Part of the reason for lack of natural pollination is that bees have become extinct - a pot of natural honey recently sold at auction for a small fortune. It is therefore global news when five individuals are stung by bees in different parts of the world within a few weeks of each other.
Harj is a Sri Lankan man whose family was wiped out by the tsunami in 2004. He has worked his way up from janitor to telesales rep at an upmarket clothing factory in Trincomalee. In his spare time he playfully devised a spoof website which has captured the interest of a journalist across the world, but Harj is stung while on the phone to her. Zack is a corn farmer in Iowa whose late father led a life of drug-related crime and who has been taken under the wing of his lawyer uncle. Zack is stung while languishing nude in his harvester in the corn field he has fashioned into a set of male genitals. Samantha is a personal trainer in New Zealand given to hippy dippy pursuits such as making 'earth sandwiches': connecting with someone on the polar opposite side of the world via bread placed on the ground between them. Julien is a petulant French youth in Paris given to scornful judging of those around him. There is a biological reason for this - his frontal lobe is incompletely developed. His disdainful asides can be comical - early on, he is sitting listening to a group of shrieking old women complaining about having to shred their garbage to prevent fraud, and he sneers to himself 'Yes, the Romanians and the Russians and the Triads must be waiting on tippytoes to pounce on them: With Madame Duclos's electricity bill, we will bring Caisse d'Epargne to its knees! ' Diana is a dental hygienist in Ontario. Her membership of the local church is threatened by her uncontrollable lust for the married pastor. She also has Tourette's, which leads to outbursts of cursing. When each of these individuals is stung, they are whipped off by the authorities to isolation units where their blood is analysed frequently and they are interviewed by disembodied voices in order to try and find out what caused them to be chosen by the bees that stung them. After several weeks in these units, they are released transiently and then gathered together again for a form of group therapy which involves them telling stories to each other. Douglas Coupland is a writer who can create quirky, funny situations, and the novel's strongest parts involve the thought processes of these characters. Harj terms conventional American youth as 'Craigs', and this leads to some humorous moments: 'Do Craigs always put exclamation marks at the end of everything they say?' And 'Increasingly large numbers of increasingly drunk he-Craigs and she-Craigs came up to me and made buzzing noises and pretended to sting me.' His matter-of-fact descriptions are often charming - garden furniture is described as 'white plastic lawn furniture of a sort burped out by tsumanis', and his combination of fear and excitement at the (swiftly dissipated) chance to become 'carnal' with a she-Craig is endearingly related. Diana, too, is entertaining, her scathing commentary on her 'putting-out machine' sister and the pastor's possibly unfaithful wife, and her ferocious love of animals giving her some depth. But Generation A falls down in other areas. The plot fails to develop. The time the characters spend in the isolation unit is vaguely intriguing from a Willy Wonka point of view (and the five are dubbed 'The Wonka kids' by Julien, one of their number.) But the descriptions of the cubes of inspid jelly-like food, the lack of human contact in the units and the absence of branding only really whet the appetite for more meaty plot development, which doesn't come. The characters, too, are developed so far but no further so that some of them - for example, nudist, womanising Zack - remain stereotypes. There is a lot of extraneous detail about their relatives which doesn't come to anything, and the underlying condemnation of the technological world and its destructiveness remains superficial. And the stories the characters share - with punning titles like 'Superman and the Kryptonite Martinis' seem pointless. Generation A would have worked better as a short story. In its current form it can't decide whether to be a thriller or a sceptical analysis of our techno-loving society, and the screeds of non-essential information it throws up are as distracting as the techno society it condemns.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastically imaginative - I loved it!,
This review is from: Generation A (Hardcover)
Generation A is set in the near future, when bees have become extinct. People fondly remember honey, flowers and how much more beautiful the planet was back then, so everyone is surprised when five people across the globe are suddenly stung by bees. The victims are whisked away, quarantined and interrogated to try to determine why they have been stung. The answers are cleverer and more shockingly possible than I could ever imagine. This book shares a scary glimpse of the future which is closer to the truth than we dare to admit.
Douglas Coupland has achieved something which no author has managed before - to engage me in short stories. I have always found them disappointing in the past, but this book contained a series of short stories in the final chapters and each of them had me captivated. I have always heard that writing a good short story is the sign of a talented author, and this book has me convinced that this is true. Each one was impressive in its own right and some were so good that I made family members read them too. My favourite was the one in which beings from another planet eat humans: "One day the lieutenant made the observation that human beings who read large numbers of books tended to taste better than humans who didn't. This intrigued the commander: "I'm listening, Lieutenant." "Sir, when the humans read books, it gives them a sense of individuality, a sense of being unique - a sense that something about their existence is special or, as they like to say, `magical.' Reading seems to generate microproteins in their bloodstreams, and those eons give them that extra juicy flavour." I was totally gripped by this book, unable to put it down once the setting had been established. The writing was impressive, managing to make me laugh out loud as often as I found myself thinking deeply about our society. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Coupland for a while...,
By sitsonthefence (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is an excellent read, which challenges the reader to assess themselves as they go.
I read this over a two day period and loved his use of multiple first person viewpoints, which gave depth to the characters, and also forced you to piece together the context around the characters. At no point though was this a "tough" read. It's tough to comment without spoilers, so best I can say is that ultimately this is a positive book, a great read and one I'd read again.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not one of his best,
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...which is a real shame, as Douglas Coupland is a great writer, with an unerring ability to wittily and succinctly precis the current human condition. This book had a promising start, but I think Coupland couldn't figure out how to end the story. By using the device of having the five central characters tell stories at the end, I think he was buying himself time to figure out the conclusion of the book- which was lazy and disappinting. He mentions James Joyce as being unreadable bilge that gets the Emperors New Clothes treatment from credulous readers. I couldn't help thinking that the reviews of Generation A, so proudly printed on the book's cover were a perfect example of the same. Microserfs and JPod were much tighter and funnier- and both more satisfying than this, as they were proper (very wittily barbed) stories.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Coupland classic,
This review is from: Generation A (Hardcover)
Douglas Coupland is unique in modern authors for his combination of being able to write with a sense of keen observation and a unique knack of getting under the skin of the zeitgeist. Generation A continues these traits for the late noughties.
Coupland skillfully pulls together a multi-threaded story that pulls together globalisation, environmental angst, economic decline, end times, murder, drug abuse, changing media consumption and corporate corruption in a tight plot. Coupland drives the story on through five narrators and still manages to provide each one of them with a well-rounded character profile. I particularly like the way Coupland manages to understand and articulate how his characters use and related to technology. Whilst the book is less literal than Generation X or Microserfs it is still a work of its time. One gets the sense that Coupland writes in a semi-reverential way of his previous works. Even the title of this book Generation A - whilst taken as a quote from a speech by Kurt Vonnegut at Syracuse University in 1994. The style of the novel is an obvious reference to Generation X, and like that book the real focus is on angst as a major force in modern life. |
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Generation A by Douglas Coupland (Paperback - 2 Sept. 2010)
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