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Review: Generation A

Generation A by Douglas Coupland

My rating:
Read from June 21 to November 22, 2010

I read this book at the same time I was listening to Player One so I think I might have over done it with apocalyptic Coupland stories.

Much like Generation X, the story is about the characters and the stories they tell. The premis is interesting and the five principle characters are even more intriguing.

Alas, the momentum that the first half of the book delivers is squandered in the second half. The bee story line is discarded and ignored half way through like a dejected sub-plot that never existed. The second half of the book is really a collection of short stories from individuals in a post-bee world. However, even these sub-stories became mundane as they all seemed to have the same fatalistic and depressing punchline. Almost as if they were the same story recast with different settings.