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by Douglas Coupland (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; New edition edition (1 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743231511
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743231510
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 58,980 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written - a strange but moving masterpiece, 14 Mar 2006
By S. J. Razzetti "pastarasta" (Cumbria, UK) - See all my reviews
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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!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Though provoking, 15 Sep 2001
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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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars more directed coupland, 13 Jul 2006
By deadmanjones (Stockport, UK) - See all my reviews
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 narrative should seek it out and have Coupland once again have their suspicions confirmed.

Probably best not to do it on your own over Christmas and New Year though. Doesn't really put you in the party mood.

This is the third Coupland novel I've read (following Girlfriend in a Coma & Miss Wyoming). Once again Coupland proves his expertise at articulating the need for need that our generation occasionally suffers from. Told as sporadic journal entries and stream of conscious reminiscences, it makes its point more directly than the two later novels I read, but is maybe less memorable or enjoyable for eschewing narrative (though the absence of narrative in life is one of his main points).
Closure is once again however his weak point. Like Miss Wyoming and (especially) Girlfriend in a Coma, he ends with the vagaries of Easy Rider style escapism, where the 9-5 is rejected in order to just head off and, you know, do stuff. Just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead.
But then, by accurately portraying our questioning of how inconsequential work and life is, it's inevitable that he'll never be able to give us an answer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars thanks Mr Coupland
Had this book on holiday with me - read it once and thought it was good, then ran out of reading material, so, as this one was short and interesting, read it again in an afternoon... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars What a con!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Depressing but confusing
I like Douglas Coupland's books but this book, as much as i do like it, it does lack something. The book shows the point of views of the narrators and their troubles. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2004 by Mike

5.0 out of 5 stars It's like opening the mind of a Depressive
This is great to read if you are depressed, or have a tendancy to depression, not because it will make you happy, but at least you will know there is somebody out there who feels... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Book Of Ideas, Rather Than Story
This is an odd way to start a 5-star review but here goes. Of all Douglas Coupland's books, this is probably the most rambling and incoherent. Read more
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