Douglas Coupland
 

I just finished reading GenerationX and Jpod. Two of the best books ive ever read..

Any Fans?

never heard of them till now. the website for the author is very cunfusing or maybe i'm just stupid... anyway what are they about

Its difficult to explain. He writes alot about characters frustrated with the world of 'McJobs' and comsumerism, that escape into their own irony laden worlds. He's also a visual artist so the layout and visual structures of the book tend to take on a life of their own. He's often said Andy Warhol is one of his biggest inspirations. The Warhol influence is clearly seen in the visual style of his last book 'JPod'. What really makes Coupland great though is his use of dialoge and character. All his characters tend have very strange opinions and outlooks on the world.

Begin with his first book 'GenerationX'. Its widely considered to be his best and is a good starting point for getting acquainted with his unique style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland

Wikipedia explains it better than I can.

He wrote the forword to 'Planet Simpson' by Chris Turner and I enjoyed it. That's all I've read so far.

He reminds me of Chuck Palahniuk so much .
Whenever i read either of their books , i get so annoyed and frustrated at their boring repetitiveness that i'm throwing it accross the room, until i come accross either of their signature lil nuggets of truth . Both of them do that , how everythign they write seems to be written around little sentences or single paragraphs that somehow lay down a perfect insight into modern life, and they are grabbing enough to make me persist through the entire novel .

Invisible monsters by CP is FULL of it . the entire thing is quotable, and is really fantastic . Diary on the other hand, is a fucking joke . FUCK !

Generation X by Coupland is one of his gems, for sure . ive read several others and they are "ok" . The novels that follow Gen X get more and more snotty .

Oh, Right . Microserfs is actually fantastic as well . its about a bunch of young computer programmers in the very early nineties searching for their lives, that sorta thing .

i liked microserfs better than jpod because it seemed more sincere, but the hug machine (or whatever it was called) in jpod cracked me the hell up. while the microserfs were just geeks, jpod is an encyclopedia of asperger's syndrome.