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Title: let down and hanging around...
Review: This novel is Douglas Coupland's most disappointing book to date. I have been an avid reader of Coupland's work for the past 12 years, and this is my first experience with one of his novels where I actually contemplated putting the book down before I had finished reading it. The novel is an ultimate exercise in self-indulgence. Although I found certain portions of the book to be rather clever and insightful, the author appears to have sacrificed the narrative for the sake of making astute observations. I became thoroughly disappointed in myself for having paid the full $24.95 for the hardcover edition of this novel when Coupland, borrowing a tired technique that has been utilized by far too many fiction writers in the past 20 years, makes an appearance as himself in the narrative. I will undoubtedly read Coupland's next novel, but I believe that I will wait patiently for it to become available in paperback before purchasing it.
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