Player One - Douglas Coupland

Covering similar ground to the previous year's Generation A this book moved quickly ('a novel in five hours') though perhaps due to this haste I didn't feel it cut all that deep. It was slightly unnerving to see how little it could conceivably take to plunge society into apocalyptic-like conditions. A few neat ideas conjured up but not my particular favourite. Seeing Coupland read, albeit a chapter I'd already read, was a neat experience - to experience things out loud with a room full of people - I was much more inclined to react audibly than while by myself. He is an odd character to interview with seemingly disjointed stories that only sometimes relate back to the question in any meaningful way.
6.5
(Fall 2010)