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A review by breannamorgan
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
1.0
If there was a way to scrape this travesty of a book out of my brain, I would do it.
My biggest problem were the characters. Without fail, every single one of them had the same voice, what I can only assume is Coupland's voice, because it wasn't a believable voice for anyone. The characters are also incredibly one dimensional: bored goth, alcoholic loser, alcoholic loser #2, alcoholic loser #3, pretty idiot boy.
Plot wise, Coupland seems to have decided that one terrible book wasn't enough, so he made a book within a book so that he could doubly torture his readers.
I can't fathom why anyone would write this, much less a publisher who'd be willing to take it on
My biggest problem were the characters. Without fail, every single one of them had the same voice, what I can only assume is Coupland's voice, because it wasn't a believable voice for anyone. The characters are also incredibly one dimensional: bored goth, alcoholic loser, alcoholic loser #2, alcoholic loser #3, pretty idiot boy.
Plot wise, Coupland seems to have decided that one terrible book wasn't enough, so he made a book within a book so that he could doubly torture his readers.
I can't fathom why anyone would write this, much less a publisher who'd be willing to take it on