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Anonymous Sat Jun 12 01:54:56 2010 No.778384 [Reply] [Original]

Hey do you guys in america read Coupland? the guy who coined the term generation x? He's a pretty good writer... funny, indepth, down to earth. I like him. just wondering if you guys heard of him?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 01:58:56 2010 No.778390 Sure have. He's good, witty.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 02:05:56 2010 No.778406 You a fan OP? Have you read Jpod?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 02:09:56 2010 No.778412 >>778406 nah! i keep meaning too but i haven't got around to it. i read microserfs tho. that shit was pretty cash.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 02:10:56 2010 No.778414 hes a little too precious you can tell by his writing that he's really full of himself

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 02:14:56 2010 No.778419 >>778414 ya... but most authors are.

Anonymous Sat Jun 12 02:22:56 2010 No.778429
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Microserfs is excellent. Bunch of twentysomething nerds in the early 1990s slowly get a life.

Shampoo Planet is good too. The character is sort of the last gasp of the 80s--he's fixated on brand names and hair-care products and such, like Patrick Bateman without the serial killer part.

Life After God is weird and sad, and good. Short and disjointed. Generation X is really overrated; his other books do the same thing better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 02:25:56 2010 No.778434 >>778429 generation a? that shit was pretty good, it was very witty and intense.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 11:26:56 2010 No.779317 i was a bad soc major, i didn't read it until just now. read it its good

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Anonymous Sat Jun 12 11:29:56 2010 No.779322

Canadafag here.

I had to read Generation X for an English class independent study in Grade 12. I couldn't stand it. 192 pages of "YUPPIES ARE BAD, FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, BE FREE, ESCAPE NORMS". It was so boring. But then again I'm 19, so maybe it sort of missed its mark.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 11:38:56 2010 No.779329 >>779322 I read it when I was 19 and I liked it. But then, I was 19 in 1992, so maybe it's a generational thing...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 11:48:56 2010 No.779337 I only read Life after God, which I liked. Planning to read Generation A next

>>	Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI Sat Jun 12 11:51:56 2010 No.779342 Generation X - okay Life After God - really good All Families Are Psychotic - shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 12:07:56 2010 No.779364 >>779342 Shampoo Planet wasn't bad, either.

Anonymous Sat Jun 12 14:53:56 2010 No.779663

Yeah, I read almost everything he wrote. (not in America though). Microserfs and J-Pod are my favourite, I think. Though I also enjoyed the Gum thief and All families are psychotic. And eh.. all his other books too, basically. The books become a bit sameish after the third or fourth you read, but in this case, it doesn't bother me.

>>	scarletisred !EWO1S5XDG2 Sat Jun 12 15:04:56 2010 No.779677 jpod was hillarious

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 15:10:56 2010 No.779692 I've read and liked Microserfs & Jpod. But he didn't actually coin the term "Generation X", he popularized it as a term for that particular generation. Wikipedia is your friend.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 12 15:12:56 2010 No.779696 I understand there was a tv series based on JPod... was it any good?

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