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What does /lit/ think of Douglas Coupland?

Is it bad that he's my favourite author? (speaking as someone who doesn't frequent this board.

>> No.5276308

What does /lit/ think of My Dick?

>> No.5276311

He makes me wince in pain at times when I read him.

>> No.5276316

>>5276278
I read Microserfs and enjoyed it. He's a nice light realist writer. Good for a deck chair between denser things.

>> No.5276349

>>5276316
When I read his stuff, it seems to me that he is not writing for the generation he is talking about. He is writing for the older people and that generations parents.

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>>5276278
I read Jpod and it was OK.
I think it would've been a better read if Coupland condensed the book, structured it, maybe a plot. Who knows?
Maybe he didn't need to add 40 plus pages of computer chitchat and symbols. Who knows? Who knows?

>> No.5276423

>>5276380
Maybe not have written it at all really.