false <![CDATA[Generation A]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240424531m/6093864.jpg 6093864 5 In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Idea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. "Generation A" mirrors the structure of 1991's 'Generation X' as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defenses we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and entertaining novel to date. 6270883 book 6 10 2009 Generation A total:76|5:17|4:29|3:19|2:9|1:2| 76 278 382 24 1 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 06:13:04 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:15:49 -0700 2009 Generation A mirrors 1991's Generation X.” It says so, right there on the back jacket. I read that and figured if Douglas Coupland was returning, in some manner, to the book that inflated him into what he is now, I was keen to read the by-product.

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ISBN: 978-0-434-01983-0
Sam North review

I was a big fan of Douglas Coupland, sticking with him to the brilliant millennium novel ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’. Somewhere around Miss Wyoming and All Families Are Psychotic my...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 05:10:35 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 11:21:31 -0700 2009
His latest production, JPod, was an echo of Microserfs, his second...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 11:58:37 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 08:20:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 01:24:57 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 08:22:54 -0700 2009 Generation A was the most enjoyable Coupland I've read for a while - and I find them all enjoyable, so this is high praise. In fact I rank it fourth after Microserfs, Shampoo Planet and Girlfriend in a Coma - not bad going when the other three all have a hefty whack of nostalgia on their side. Is it...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 10:01:11 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:24:53 -0700 2009 Generation A narrated in first person by five separate individuals. It can take a master stylist to pull off five distinct personalities, and Coupland is not up to it. His five characters are too similar; each talks with the same cadences and rhythms, the s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 22:58:25 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 23:30:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:29:31 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 07:22:58 -0800 2009
Douglas Coupland's dry wit and sparkling grasp of pop culture bring us a story set in the near future, in a world reeling fr...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 19:03:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 13:20:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 22:22:42 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 22:28:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 07:53:39 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 19:07:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 22:01:51 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 18:08:32 -0700 2009
Contains bits...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 20:13:39 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 15:58:48 -0700 2009 Generation A in two days, while the second half took me two weeks. If I'd been captivated enough to read it in a few days, I would've given it five stars. It's a hauntingly almost believable story of the near future, with incredible commentary on the power of story-telling i...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:21:47 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:23:23 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 07:14:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 07:16:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 30 10:37:15 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 10:38:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:17:19 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:49:21 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 19:47:06 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 21:55:55 -0800 2009 full review ]more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 15:08:31 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 15:08:42 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 22:13:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 21:09:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6093864