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Review: Player One: What Is to Become of Us

Player One: What Is to Become of Us by Douglas Coupland

My rating:
Read in November, 2010

Overall impression: Meh.

Coupland is good at setting the stage and introducing us to interesting characters, but just like Generation A, he has a hard time finishing the story. In fact, this book mirrors a lot of thoughts from "Generation A" that I would almost call this world a parallelquel.

The story line premis and back of the book description is interesting, but the story lacks any final punch other than to remind us of the precarious dependency that we have on oil. Even that seems to be a lost subplot.