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A review by moon110581
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
4.0
I read a lot of Douglas Coupland when I was younger, including this book. Other than Generation X and All Families are Psychotic, I'd always had fond memories of this book. I read it when I was a teenager and I think the idea of escaping and not being under the control of anything or anyone really appealed to me, although by that point I had tried several times and knew it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I remember specifically laughing at John Johnson big plan to give up all his worldly possessions and wander the earth. I knew it was going to suck for him and it did, that is basically just being a homeless person. I could certainly sympathize, though.
All the other characters were far more interesting than Johnson, though, particularly Susan Colgate. Once again, like in Eleanor Rigby, we're seeing a character that at one point breaks into someones home and kind of likes seeing how these people live and what their life is like, if for only a moment. I drew the parallel between the two books at that point because the idea had always appealed to me as well.
I like the quirkiness of the book, the strange things that happen, and the mostly interesting characters. I thought it was interesting that the character Vanessa thinks that she is the next step in the evolution of humans because she is so smart.
I also liked that these characters were seeking out more meaning in their lives than Hollywood money and fame could provide them, and in their own strange way they find it. This is a little more cohesive plot-wise than Generation X for example, but not as much as All Families Are Psychotic.
I think I missed most of the main points of this book reading it as a teenager because I just took from it what applied to me and left the rest, I didn't even remember the second half of the book. And yet, I give it the same star rating...
All the other characters were far more interesting than Johnson, though, particularly Susan Colgate. Once again, like in Eleanor Rigby, we're seeing a character that at one point breaks into someones home and kind of likes seeing how these people live and what their life is like, if for only a moment. I drew the parallel between the two books at that point because the idea had always appealed to me as well.
I like the quirkiness of the book, the strange things that happen, and the mostly interesting characters. I thought it was interesting that the character Vanessa thinks that she is the next step in the evolution of humans because she is so smart.
I also liked that these characters were seeking out more meaning in their lives than Hollywood money and fame could provide them, and in their own strange way they find it. This is a little more cohesive plot-wise than Generation X for example, but not as much as All Families Are Psychotic.
I think I missed most of the main points of this book reading it as a teenager because I just took from it what applied to me and left the rest, I didn't even remember the second half of the book. And yet, I give it the same star rating...