I have just finished reading a couple Douglas Coupland books in the past week, Hey Nostradamus, as well as Girlfriend in a Coma. I don't know whether anyone has read either of these books, but I personally thought they were actually really good. I must say that I did enjoy the books just as light reading (in the way in which they read - not in their content).
I really don't know what to think of either of them though, for some reason they both left me craving more, but at the same time satisfied with everything that I had read. It is at the best of times an odd combination, but it seems to have worked very well for Coupland.
If I were to point out the aspects that I really didn't like it would have to be that the ending of Girlfriend seemed really quite forced, and to a certain extent hollow as a result. I can also see how some might consider it poorly structured, I for one think that the way in which it is written is done so in order to convey the message and the atmosphere of the book.
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