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Re: coupland

the "problem" might be with "things canada" indeed -
if there's any further info on that "Brave Souls"
tome, please send along personally or otherwise.  i
will gladly proffer to you the name "guy
vanderhaeghe," whose short stories i greatly treasure.
if his collection "man descending" does not tilt you
in the same manner as me, it would still mean that you
have been "tilted".

as opposed to d.c. of course.  :)
--- Absalom Recordings <lists at absalomrecordings_com>
wrote:
> > i wrote a grad school paper (partially) on gen x a
> > couple of years ago.  i had read it for the first
> time
> > in '92 in undergrad and was completely entralled
> by
> > it.  took several years before i came too the
> > conclusion (flawed, most likely), that it is a
> > post-modern adaptation of kerouac's *on the road*.
> 
> > (that is not to downplay mr. coupland's particular
> > craft, mind you).
> 
> Yeah, I can see that.  It's got the same kind of
> flow to it ...
>  
> > i don't know -- have a couple of friends who swear
> by
> > *shampoo planet*, even fewer by *microserfs*. 
> > coupland lost his appeal for me when he started
> doing
> > mtv commercials back in the day.
> 
> I didn't care for Microserfs the first time I read
> it, I thought he went 
> for an easy ending, but I've re-read it a couple
> times since then and 
> been absolutely blown away.  Life After God is
> simply one of the 
> best books ever.
> 
> If you want a really interesting read, you should
> track down a book 
> called Brave Souls ... it's a collection of
> interviews one of the 
> religion editors for a Vancouver paper did with a
> bunch of writers / 
> artists / musicians on the topic of spiritual
> matters.  There's some 
> fascinating stuff in there ... Coupland's included
> as are Bruce 
> Cockburn, John Irving, Robertson Davies, Robert
> Munsch and a 
> slew of other excellent people ...
> 
> I think Coupland's problem now is that he's started
> to take his own 
> press too seriously and instead of just trying to
> write a good book 
> he's trying to write a Coupland book ... 
> 
> Todd.
> 
> 
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