- Paperback: 250 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; First Thus edition (19 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747547432
- ISBN-13: 978-0747547433
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,911,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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David O'Toole, The Times 16th June 2001
'makes compelling reading.'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
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The E-generation have grown up, their own kids are pushing 18. They learned about sex from their parents' pornography; they learned about drugs from the kitchen drawer. There's nothing bad here, between the gym and the ringroad. Until the day the Indian boys fall out of the sky.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Coast is by far the best book I have read in a long while. Yeah, it is hip, but a convincing set of characters, and more plot twists than you can shake a stick at, allow it to be so. If Branton wasn't so cool, Bay and his rabble of gorgeous young things could not be so convincing in their roles of neo rebellion against a society screwed by MDMA. As it stands, I believed him all the way. I'm sure I have met those people. In fact, I probably fancied myself as those people when I was but a whippersnapper. That's the thing about Coast. It is a world we recognise, and a great story along the way. Round of applause, sir.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Narrative style was good and some of the phraseology was very cool but I couldn't help but wonder about Branton's age. Sometimes I felt He was bludgeoning me with how hip he was. Strip away the hipness and you find quite a mundane tale of parental neglect.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
ok, so it isn't really that good. but it is a rare book that comes closer than any i've read to telling it like it is for teens who do drugs [and who doesn't?] and f**k their brains out while still really wanting mommy and daddy [who are-- the sad fact comes out: areseholes just like everybody else] to wipe their noses and cuddle them.
the protagonist feels betrayed by his slimey and duplicitous parents, and by his 'girlfriend'. it is a hard lesson to learn that these people don't act according to YOUR direction or the way they do in harry potter and other fairly tales.
the crystal meth scenes are way cool, even if eventually the kids involved do realize, as we all sadly do, that this kind of lifestyle cannot be sustained.
hey, it was great while it lasted.
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This book is unoriginal, boring and tries far too hard. Aiming to be like the Beach, it fails to capture any emotion or imagination. It's just void of any literary quality!
Published on 20 Mar 2003 by "readercld"
I couldn't put it down! A mirror image of my own life!
Branton's story of how youth always rebels makes this book quite possibly the best book I've ever read. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2001
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AVOID THIS BOOK: IT IS AWFUL. The author panders to cosumerist sensibilities and reels out an irritating stream of brand names in inanely superficial attempt to cover up the... Read more
Published on 5 April 2001
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