Generation A

I didn't get my standard Coupland vibe of cultural gestalt from this one. I'm talking about those moments when you nod in understanding and agreement when a character does or says something that you don't expect in a book but really captures your current everyday experience. It's there in thin layers but this book went somewhere else.

The storytelling at the end seems to be a modern day Canterbury Tales. The tales almost seem a parody of earlier Couplan works. Gen A actually tries to pull a deeper meaning out of those stories. And it almost succeeds. But when I finishe this book I didn't have that experience of thinking I just read something that captured and added to my understanding of our world.

That said I enjoyed the story and it did pull me along enjoyably.