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| Title | : | Girlfriend in a Coma |
| Author | : | Douglas Coupland |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1999 by ReganBooks (first published January 1st 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Science Fiction |
Douglas Coupland
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.62 | 17941 Users | 810 Reviews
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'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?'It's 15 December, 1979, and Richard's girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she's locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later - a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?
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| Original Title: | Girlfriend in a Coma |
| ISBN: | 0060987324 (ISBN13: 9780060987329) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Vancouver, British Columbia(Canada) |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 17941 Users | 810 ReviewsWeigh Up Containing Books Girlfriend in a Coma
I suppose I was pretty much destined to not like this book very much. The message just doesn't do it for me, pretty much rings false, and induces a serious eyeroll. Maybe it would have been different ten years ago when the book came out. Maybe it would have been different if I was younger when I read it. But such as it is, I found it a pretty insipid book. I'm never going to like a story that focuses on high school friends years after high school. There is just something terribly repulsive forI was really enjoying the narrative in the beginning, but then it flipped into pseudo-philosophical, paranormal preaching which didn't feel inkeeping with the mood. Not what I was expecting, mixed feelings, here's a video to elaborate.
I'm still trying to sort out how I feel about this book, and Douglas Coupland in general. I loved 'Life After God' when I first read it, 10 or so years ago, and I really, really, really wanted to love 'Hey, Nostradamus,' more recently. I want to go back to 'Life After God' and see how I feel about it now, but I'm scared. I'm scared because Coupland's books are full of bright-eyed, youthful ideas on the world, and I was absolutely that person 10 years ago. And it's not that I'm not that person
This book went somewhere I never expected it to go, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.I started reading this book a few years ago, got around halfway through, and for some unknown reason never picked it up again until now. I was enjoying it at the time, so it's strange that I stopped reading, but I've finally got back to it now.The story focuses around a group of friends and their lives growing up in a world that keeps progressing while they feel their lives are stagnant. On the 15th of
My reaction after finishing the book:
What starts off as a moderately interesting book with a clever story and filled with pop culture references, the book delves into this annoying, dreary and deviating,rant(and I stress the word rant)about 'life' and 'it's meaning' and the ending is just bad, and just a huge bunch of annoying and forgettable characters who are depressed for no particular reason and seem depressed even when there is meant to be joy. An annoying book that does not provoke 'deeper thoughts' and 'questions about
Karen, the girlfriend of the title, sinks into a coma in 1979 and awakes almost 20 years later. As she recovers, the world ends. For two thirds of the book, I thoroughly enjoyed Couplands quite unusual narrative (which frequently shifts narrator) and great characters (and of course, the numerous Smiths song titles scattered all over the text). The final third of the book really goes nowhere, the author and myself obviously have very different views of the 90's, and the ending feels to hurried
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