Generation A- Douglas Coupland

Title: Generation A by Douglas Coupland

Jacket summary: Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people from around the world-in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka- are all stung. Their shared experiences unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
Generation A mirrors Coupland's debut Novel, 1991's Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.


My Take: The cover of the book lies, it is not his most ambitious work yet. Seriously, it was disjointed and I have no idea why I was still reading around page 100. The book started out hilariously but around page 100 it started to fall apart. Coupland's wit and brash view of the world was really the only interesting part of this book. The characters were slightly flat and really did not develop. It was one of those books that once finished the reader can piece the story together in under thirty seconds. I have stated in the past that Coupland and I have a love hate relationship. I don't feel that this was one of his better books. Maybe next time Mr. C.