- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: Abacus (23 April 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0349103313
- ISBN-13: 978-0349103310
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 19.3 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 180,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A riotous, raunchy tale about three 'twenty somethings' who inhabit adjoining bungalows in Palm Springs.
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Format:Hardcover
Quaint yet contemporary, addictive yet superficial, quite unlike anything else yet utterly familiar, funny yet sooo depressing - there's a distinct Godard feel in there too (he too personified style over substance; thank God he eschewed drugs) - this is consumerism's decadent endgame, affluence's aimlessness plus globalism's uprootedness, the aboutissement (or coming to fruition) of Just What Is It Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing, yet with an eerily provincial, at-one-remove feel (only a Canadian, one feels - North American yet not 'American' - could have written it; this is a very Canadian book!), the chameleon observer or innocent abroad. 'Some people don't have to play the hip game; I like Elvissa, but she can be so clued out.' Is he for real, this narrator? Or Claire: 'Girls can be so froufrou'; 'VSTP: very severe taste problem, that lady'. Exactly how tongue in cheek is this? Worth remarking on too is the loose, at times somewhat Decameronesque, or Sheherazad, structure - aimlessness embodied! Get the original edition - style and content were never better fused.
Format:Hardcover
I had read Shampoo Planet prior to this, which is a great book. But something about Generation X grabbed me totally, years on I still read it regularly and it still touches me. The characters are perfect. Much of the chapters could stand up on their own as excellent short stories and all put together it is wonderful and charming.
Format:Hardcover
When I first read Generation X I was 18, living in a small town in the midlands in England. Coupland wrote about the things i cared about which was not much. Everything seemed to be falling away. A whole world order was terraforming in front of us on TV and it was as remote as the remotest remote control. Reading Coupland back then taught me that your generation will be superseded a million times. That nine years on with a haircut and a job you'll say things you'd have hated yourself for. And remember those friends? Where are they now. So it is good, almost as a history now, but he's wrote infinitely better stuff, from the surface of shampoo planet, to the aching brillance of girlfriend in a comma- the themes remain you are destined to become that which you think you will never be
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Thought-provoking and perfect in every way
Coupland captures wonderfully every cliched portrayal of twentysomethings known to man and exposes them as ridiculous. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2000
OH MY GOD
Never have I read a book that I could so readily relate to. Captures superbly the general apathy of a generation weaned on a diet of bad television and cool trash icons. Read more
Published on 27 May 1999
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