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`A work of genius.' --Independent on Sunday
`A tense, utterly compelling story.' --The Times
`Enjoyable ... The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant ... Coupland has always been a highly compassionate writer, concerned mainly with the ways in which affluent people's lives are cheapened by popular culture.' --Scarlett Thomas, Guardian
`As always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they're quirky, often funny and frequently profound.' --Daily Mail
`The pulse quickens as his principal characters hunker down for some besieged truth-telling ... Dynamic engagement is the real meat of this slim but provocative novel.' --Independent
`A tense, utterly compelling story.' --The Times
`Enjoyable ... The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant ... Coupland has always been a highly compassionate writer, concerned mainly with the ways in which affluent people's lives are cheapened by popular culture.' --Scarlett Thomas, Guardian
`As always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they're quirky, often funny and frequently profound.' --Daily Mail
`The pulse quickens as his principal characters hunker down for some besieged truth-telling ... Dynamic engagement is the real meat of this slim but provocative novel.' --Independent
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From the bestselling author of Jpod, Generation X and Generation A comes a dystopian Breakfast Club for the twenty-first century.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
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This review is from: Player One (Paperback)
I've enjoyed all Coupland's novels before this one, which felt like no more than his early concept notes before fleshing out. Or a single chapter of a more substantial work pre-edit.I didn't even notice I had finished it - there is an appendix of 20 pages or so that I expected to be more story. A less well known writer would likely not have found a publisher for this one........
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Thought provoking or plain pretentious?,
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This review is from: Player One (Hardcover)
In true Coupland style this book brings together the banal ( an airport hotel bar) with the cataclysmic ( the end of civilisation). Into this mix are thrown some of Coupland's most interesting characters for years. A vicar on the run, a stunning, detached blonde, a middle-aged woman on an internet date and a reformed alcoholic bar tender. The novel is short on plot but the eclectic mix of people leads to though provoking muses on happiness, religion and fulfilment in the twenty first century. None of the characters feel real but in their own individual way they reflect the worries and concerns of all of us with an unnerving veracity.As with most of Coupland's recent novels I'm left with mixed feelings. Is the lack of story a sign of unflinching genius or the sign of someone playing to their strengths? In the end I don't think it really matters - in a couple of hundred pages Coupland introduces more concepts than a lifetime of mainstream literature and delivers characters that you care for.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Oops, he did it again.,
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This review is from: Player One (Hardcover)
First of all, I love Douglas Coupland.Well, I have finished "Player One" a few days ago and I was sad to admit to myself that it was not his best book. I mean, it's all repetitive: end of the world, is there God who still cares about us, we are all going to die anyway - his usual stuff sprinkled with the irony - and that's what I love about him, but come on! I read one review that said that he is finally at his best, at his "Generation X" best, and maybe that was my problem - I read "Generation X" and straight away I read "Player One" - maybe that's why it all felt like one long moan about consumerism and over-culture of the world we all live in, fateless creatures. And while it was something unheard of in the early nineties, well, now it's just kinda boring... Once again, I love Mr Coupland and cannot wait for him to astonish me with his new books, like he did so many times before.
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