Whoa 1000th post

I gotta thank my mom for finishing this novel by Coupland (family has been staying with me since July, life has gotten kinda boring). Took me about three weeks. I wouldn't say it's a great book but there are so many crappy ones out there that it's a feat to be readable.. yeah low expectations. I'm only this way about books, I swear

I didn't much like Generation X but I thought I needed to give Coupland another chance since it's one of my friend Nico's favorite writer

Got this from the library. It read a lot like a Steve Martin book about a weird quirky character, here super loner Liz. Someone pointed out to me that my book was a Beatles song, with "striking lyrics about the loneliness of old age". In the book, it's the protagonist's email address. Coupland is from Vancouver and the story takes place there, with bits about Rome (a high school trip) and Liz visits Germany and Austria in the novel. As an aside, there's also a Liz Dunn working at Technorati

There are no chapters, it's very free flow and the author jumps back and forth in time with *** markers. I kinda like the style, it's really easy to read. I do feel a bit cheated on the structure of the story, you can guess the fantasies are a setup, etc. I'm not sure if it's from reading too many books, you come to see these things develop and you get a feel for what is about to happen (specifically I'm talking about Jeremy's visions)

There's a happy ending, hey maybe we don't have to die alone


Beautiful cover, loved it (mattress refers to how Jeremy, Liz' son, sold them for a while) design by John Fullbrook III from photo illustration of Jethro Soudant and Shasti O'Leary

Quotes
"Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you"
"[...] is also [...] stupidly handsome, and it's difficult to speak with beautiful people"
"[...] the Liz Dunn who was too lonely to live and too frightened to die"

Links
- reviews - Eleanor Rigby

Posted	Thursday, August 03, 2006 @ 10:17:39 PM (840 days ago)
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