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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
1 review
cnidariar3x's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Dripping with all the cynical & sardonic self-awareness granted to a young adult at the onset of the '90s.
I knew roughly what I was getting into, after reading Chuck Klosterman's "The Nineties". Paraphrasingly described within as "jarring to modern sensibilities, but an almost prophetic vision of the grunge mentality."
For what its worth, most of my upbringing was spent watching folks on Youtube discuss media from their childhood around this time period. In that sense the underlying angst, though naïve and half-baked by todays standards, still ring true today.
The world is still currently growing into something unmanageable. Anxieties and absurdisms still abound in lifestyle management, relationship dynamics, and future planning.
I felt this book and its characters more deeply than I thought I would, although I /really/ could have done without the neologism dictionary-definitions and slogan stickers in the margins. A more traditional layout may have served the story better. The quirks seemed to be completely separate to what was happening and served only to distract me throughout my time reading.
Perhaps they are a remnant of the somewhat turbulent phase of selling the book in general; perhaps it made sense of the time. As it is, Generation X was to me, a bit of a time portal. How and where my own predilections towards cynicism and irony may have once blossomed.
I knew roughly what I was getting into, after reading Chuck Klosterman's "The Nineties". Paraphrasingly described within as "jarring to modern sensibilities, but an almost prophetic vision of the grunge mentality."
For what its worth, most of my upbringing was spent watching folks on Youtube discuss media from their childhood around this time period. In that sense the underlying angst, though naïve and half-baked by todays standards, still ring true today.
The world is still currently growing into something unmanageable. Anxieties and absurdisms still abound in lifestyle management, relationship dynamics, and future planning.
I felt this book and its characters more deeply than I thought I would, although I /really/ could have done without the neologism dictionary-definitions and slogan stickers in the margins. A more traditional layout may have served the story better. The quirks seemed to be completely separate to what was happening and served only to distract me throughout my time reading.
Perhaps they are a remnant of the somewhat turbulent phase of selling the book in general; perhaps it made sense of the time. As it is, Generation X was to me, a bit of a time portal. How and where my own predilections towards cynicism and irony may have once blossomed.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Classism
Minor: Lesbophobia and Blood
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