ALL chock fulla great stories that are REMAKING OUR LIVES - into Real Things. We’re reading and ordering vast MOUNTAINS of books. Well, here - right here on GR - that’s all changing. But here on Goodreads - have you noticed? - there are quite a lotta reviewers and bloggers who are attempting to INJECT THAT LIFEBLOOD BACK INTO OUR SYSTEMS.īooks are where we begin our re-invention of our lives.Ĭoupland said our brains trust reconditioning resulted in a situation back in the 1990’s where we found we had lost our stories to tell.

Our personalities have now been leeched away. I remembered how Douglas Coupland, when I bought the first hardcover edition of this book back in ‘94, had reminded me that we were all suddenly behaving as if the very life, and our very identity, had been sucked outta our arteries!Īnd that’s still us, or more so now, at the beginning of the 20´s - the start of the Age of the Quaranteens (AKA burnt out, viral Gen-Xers)!Ĭoupland is right. And Enoch's Giants, in their latest manifestation as the Me-Geners, were morphing into powerful DROIDS. The Me-Gen’ers were now calling the shots. So, after the dishes were safely tucked away into their cradles in the dishwasher, and that cantankerously noisy household device had been duly started, drowning out the news, I rigidly sat back in a kitchen chair - to find out where exactly in this self-isolated day, I had gone wrong.Īnd I was once more catapulted back to the nineties, a tumultuous time of leaner, smarter and better Gen-Xers in an endless, blindingly fast lane. Last night, I had to ease myself down from an OCD treadmill, after a day spent fending off incessant reminders from the authorities that the world was no longer a safe or a healthy place, and we all had to do our best straight-‘n-narrow bit to stay ahead of the game. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, jPod premieres on the CBC in January, 2008. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work.

Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961.

Generation X by Douglas Coupland