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17 July 2006

The Link to Doggles reminded me of "Life After God" by Douglas Coupland. It's one of my favourite books. Here's an amazon "look inside" link. I think everyone should read it. But then, as I said before, it's one of my favourite books.
Yes, it's a very good book. I was especially taken with the chapter dealing with the inevitable nuclear attack... "I was at the mall when it happened..." I thought "isn't it funny how no one writes about that. The spectre of nuclear war that I (for one) grew up with. Waiting to see the mushrooms on the horizon. The Next Great Leap Forward. And how no one talks about it much any more (like they did in the 80's) and how the worldwide nuclear payload is still pointed at our dreams."
Every book that I've read by Coupland, I've gone in expecting to hate it, and have loved it by the end. Not "real" hate, by the way, just the annoyance at someone who is really effortlessly clever. ;)
posted by Zack_Replica 17 July | 18:22
Dammit, I lent a first edition of that book to a girl in college I had a huge crush on. She was crazy, and said she was rediscovering who she was as a baby or some such through dreams. Anyway, one night she knocked on my door, we lived in the same apartment building, and I was s-t-o-n-e-d and she asked me to help her carry her mattress out. And I never saw her, or my book, again.

She was a nut. She'd go out to the bar with me and dance all sexy like, grab my crotch, and then tell me when we got home she had a boyfriend in Germany. Sometimes I don't miss college so much.
posted by tr33hggr 17 July | 18:51
I love, love, love American Science & Surplus. || What is the relationship between foie gras and Enron?

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