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Title: A disappointment
Review: I've enjoyed every other Douglas Coupland novel I've read (Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs), but I am starting to wonder if Coupland is now slipping. This is a man who used to have his finger on the pulse of American youth, but he now seems to have lost it. This book just seems like a pale imitation of something he wrote ten years ago and pretty far from reflective of today's culture. It drove me crazy that he kept referring to himself throughout the entire novel. As if twenty-somethings today really sit around talking about Douglas Coupland novels. Get real! That above all made me realize that this man really has no clue how people that age act or think. The story was ridiculously boring and the attempts to make the parents wacky were pathetic (Helen Fielding did a better job with the wacky mom character in the Bridget Jones books!). Save your money and read one of Coupland's older books.
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