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His fans favourite book. YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.
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Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian NATO base in Beden-Sollingen, (West) Germany on December 30, 1961. He is the author of bestselling fiction, including GENERATION X, LIFE AFTER GOD, POLAROIDS FROM THE DEAD, MICROSERFS, GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA and ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'll admit to having read many of Coupland's books. As a chronicler of our vacuous, materialist age and the damage it inflicts on us as human beings, he is without peer. After his seemingly more substantial works like All Families Are Psychotic, Eleanor Rigby and Hey Nostradamus, the pared down, minimalist structure of Life After God at first seemed ethereal and a cop-out even. But as I read on, I realised that in Coupland's case, less is more.
This is a profound and almost scary take on modern life. The structure (there are several narrators) and lack of plot in the conventional sense may make it hard for some to appreciate, but as with all Coupland's books I found myself laughing aloud one minute and pondering deep sorrow the next. He has an uncanny ability to nail the quintessential element in a vague emotion and nail it. Here's one of my favourites;
"Now: I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting herion with the Princess of Wales , naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still wouldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool...."
Brilliant. Buy it. Read it. Read it again. Delicious!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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a beautifully written, deeply moving collection of poignant little vignettes. coupland's writing is touching even when discussing the mundane, and the disjointed nature is actually very satisfying - it's incredibly thought provoking, and instead of spoonfeeding emotions to the reader, we are left with a head full of our own thoughts triggered off by the stories. brilliant.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Coupland takes us on a journey that succeedes in making emotional contact again and again. Told in a series of short recollections, impressions and observations the story is related by an ordinary, dysfunctional individual slowly coming apart as he questions growing up and contemporary life in America. Reading, I found myself drawn into the central character's life, the experiences described resonating as though my own. Life after god is a book that I thoroughly recommend and one which I shall dip into repeatedly.
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Poetic disaffection...with hope.
I enjoyed this book. The prose is no less affecting or entertaining for it's minimalism. The story of this man, told in bite-size brilliance as he contemplates life,meaning and... Read more
Published 7 months ago by vi
Bittersweet and moving
I am a huge fan of Coupland, and this book, structured into several vignettes, is one of his best. Each story is moving in its own way. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Rhia20
Padding
Seriously visit a bookshop and have a look at this book, you may see 200 pages but each page contains a single paragraph, or a huge child like scrawl of a drawing. Read more
Published on 30 May 2010 by Paul M
Life, eh? What a let down...
This is the 8th book of Coupland's I've read and I wouldn't have read this many if I didn't think he was a great writer doing wonderful things with the novel. Read more
Published on 19 April 2010 by Sam Quixote
disappointing
I've read six or seven of Coupland's books.
I read this after J-pod, which is excellent, and it was a massive disappointment. Lazy and not particularly interesting. Read more
I read this after J-pod, which is excellent, and it was a massive disappointment. Lazy and not particularly interesting. Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2010 by Stuart
Awesome
This is one of those books that I have wanted to review for a while, but was unsure of how to approach it. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
Awesome
This is one of those books that I have wanted to review for a while, but was unsure of how to approach it. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
Life after Plots
`Life after God' seems to have split people. Some love it, whilst others felt it was a bit of a con. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2007 by Sam
God is the teeth of a man who bites me on the back of the neck after a...
A lecturer of mine from university once gave me a list of books to read, which at first glance, had nothing to do with the module we were studying at the time. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2007 by Deanne Dixon
more directed coupland
Anyone with a vague cerebral itch that their life is missing something should read this book. Anyone who feels that existence is a meaningless ritual of minutiae with an absence of... Read more
Published on 13 July 2006 by deadmanjones
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