Douglas Coupland > Reviews > Douglas Coupland - creater of modern classics

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Once you start it, you won't be able to switch it off!

Advantages:	A great social commentator
Disadvantages:	his later books are not as good

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I love Douglas Coupland. He is definately one of today's most important and influential authors.
His novels include the modern classic Generation X, (1991)
Life after God (1994)
Girlfriend in a coma, (1997)
All families are psychotic, (2001)
Hey Nostradamus (2003)
and many more.
He has also written some non-fiction such as 'Polaroids from the Dead' and 'city of glass'.

He is an amazing visionary and there really is no-one else writing like him. His post-modern approach to story telling is beautiful, moving and often very funny. He has been described as a visionary and important social commentator.

A Canadian born in 1961, he has studied art and design all over the world. He also creates art and even makes his own furniture. Truley a creative talented man.
His later novels such as Microserfs and JPod are (obviously) concerned with the new 'generation', those working in IT and/or modern work places. I personally do not find these later novels as involving as his beautiful earlier works.
As I said, I'm a huge fan of Coupland and recommended people to go out and find some of his books, in the right frame of mind (open that is ha ha) they can be very inspiring and uplifting.

(can I point out that I know this is not a review of an audio book but that is the catagory poor Douglas has been stored under on here)