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Summary: How has the world changed since you've been asleep?
Review: In this novel, amid Honda CVCCs (the little ones), mild mexican dope and house trashing parties of the late 1970's, a girl goes into a coma. She awakes in middle age amid an efficient society of electronic gadgets (and don't tell her again about AIDS and the Berlin Wall coming down) which suffers from a lack. "A lack?" "Yes, a lack of convicitons, of beliefs, of wisdom, or even good old badness." In the late 1990's, nobody has time anymore, and nobody believes in anything anymore. Why should we make it any different? Will entropy crash the world, or will it just go to sleep some day. Read it & see.
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Summary: A great start but fades towards the end
Review: I have enjoyed all of the author's books but was a bit disappointed with the pat (almost I can't be bothered to keep writing) ending to this novel. I really enjoyed the characters and cared about what happened to them but I just found it a bit difficult to suspend my disbelief with the ghost scenes. Having said that it has made me take a look at the things I am doing with my life in which case I guess it has served its purpose.
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Summary: Salinger trip?
Review: What is it with Coupland - does he really think the world needs another Salinger??? Been there, done that, own the t-shirt thanks...when will the world realise that Gen-X doesn't exist anymore and that the concept is boring everyone rigid? Slackers are passe! In short, a lot of words masquerading as high-concept literature that merely fails to deliver. BORING!!
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Summary: makes you think, and enjoy doing so
Review: This was one of the most well written books I have read in a long time. Coupland takes the problems and dilemnas that people face going from teenager to adult, and portrays them in an interesting and fun manner, that will definatley make you think about and evaluate your own lives. This book is a quick read, and once you start, don't expect to get up unitl you finish.
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Summary: Do something. Read this book.
Review: This IS a good book. It takes the redemption of wasted lives as it's theme. How ordinary people, you? me? How they fail to cope with tragedy. Douglas Coupland writes in such a profound way it gets caught right in the heart. This book makes you think, feel and want to question what life is all about.
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Summary: Could have been better.
Review: Girlfriend in a Coma began as an interesting novel, but was a disappiontment at the end. At first, the novel seemed to touch upon the sensitive issues of dealing with a loved one in a coma. For example, the drastic differences in the ways Richard and Lois dealed with the loss of Karen. The plot took a nice, fairy-tale kind of turn when she wakes up after eighteen years, but after that the story takes an unbelievable twist, with ghosts performing miracles and people falling asleep...everyone but the main characters. An even greater twist is when a character is impregnated by the ghost. All in all, I felt that the ending was feeble and could have been better. However, the questions that the author posed are very thought provoking and should be considered by everyone, because there is truth behind it all.
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Summary: Clear and provocative
Review: Being hyper fictional and yet down to earth with contemporary issues, i was taken on a voyage to another place and back. The end evoqued fear of a posssible lost world accerlerated by the selfishness of humankind, the begining its evolution towards it. Coupland's "Girlfriend in a Coma" cannot be taken for granted. Plot developement and characters are interwoven to create a desir to change the way you talk to people, to constantly search for "the truth" in others; truth being everlasting and flawless, providing the basis for "healthy" living in confusing, consumer oriented times. This book should be read for its insight on human nature, and its storyline for a picture of a possible future-- RRM
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Summary: Will it change my life? Maybe.
Review: I read Generation X before it became a label and when its insights were fresh and exciting to me. Hence I felt it changed my life (I was younger then) and gave copies to everyone I knew. Girlfriend IN a Coma had that feel about it. It's the first book I've cried while reading in years. The initial story of the girl in a coma, the lost youth in the 80's and 90's and the hope of her perspective could have stood sturdy without the supernatural Jared aspect. But I like an apocalypse as much as the next citizen. This book can point toward a new direction which I assume is what Douglas C. wants. Let's drop the self-centered Gen X overanalysis and whining and get on with building a better world. GiaC says that more sappily and sily but it still says it and its important. What ARE we doing wrong exactly, (we all know it's something) and how DO we make it right. A thought provoking experience.
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Summary: I love Doug's writing, but not this one...
Review: i love doug's writing; i've seen him read twice (i saw him earlier this year in his first public appearance since his self-imposed public exile) and read all of his books. but his latest attempt falls so short in plot development, the reader is left wishing she/he didn't taint her/his view of doug by buying _girlfriend in a coma_. i wish mr. coupland would stick to doing what he does best: observing the world around him and describing it through his ironic characters instead of subjecting his readers to a superfical, moralizing ride through a bad science-fiction tale.
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Summary: Girlfriend in a Coma, a great book for us Generation X'ers!
Review: Douglas Coupland did a great job writting this story. He looks right into Richards thoughts and delivers a "movie-like" story that most X'ers would enjoy. Its was easy to follow from start to finish. I haven't enjoyed a good book like this since I was in high school reading "The Catcher in the Rye". Also The Smiths song "Girlfriend in a Coma" softly wrisped to me in my mind over and over again as I read though the chapters. The book overall was really kewl (cool).
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