/lit/ - Literature

What did /lit/ think of this book?

I find the detailed descriptions if mildy autistic IT workers and excessive brand and pop-culture references incredibly soothing but do not understand why.

In JPod, halfway through all the characters start talking about how great Douglas Copeland is and how the main character keeps missing all the opportunities to meet him. At the end, the MC gets taken to Douglas Copeland's secret underground laboratory where he's invented everything, and Douglas Copeland lectures him about the meaning of life.

It's so arrogantly ballsy I don't even know what ot make of it

Anyone read this? I'm about 40 pages in. I love the experimental sections, but the prose in-between feels weak and the dialogue is forced.

who else has read anything bu Coupland?
what do you think of his books?

I don't often see him mentioned here and nether do I consider him the pinnacle of modern writing or the fucking 'voice of a generation' but I was definitely entertained by jpod and generation x.

I would compare him to tao lin and, at a stretch, salinger (mostly because of his vastly irritating prose, leaving the reader puzzled as to whether it is intentional or not)