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Ladataan... Generation A (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2009; vuoden 2009 painos)Tekijä: Douglas Coupland
TeostiedotGeneration A (tekijä: Douglas Coupland) (2009)
  
Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. 1   KevinRubin | Mar 6, 2022 |  247  revirier | Dec 13, 2021 | About as profound as a fortune cookie but immensely entertaining. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for the format of characters telling stories. Reminds me of Chucks Palahniuk's haunted. Here the stories also tie into the bigger stories and are echoes of the main story showing how storytellers draw from their own life stories to create them. (  ) Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 | In my opinion Coupland's wackiest book - and also my favourite. I couldn't put it down and, when it was over, I felt as if I had just been to the cinema. Fantastic good fun! (  ) GeorgeHunter | Sep 13, 2020 | Not quite sure what the deal is with the title* but I always love me some Douglas Coupland. Lots of layers of Story-within-story like only he can do. If you haven't read any of his books, I'd suggest starting with JPod. *This is the guy who coined the term GenX and I'd expect more respect for the naming system. ( ) rickycatto | Sep 9, 2020 |
 Still, the plot of Generation A, which in another writer’s hands might gallop into geopolitical-thriller territory, plays harmony to trademark Couplandian insight: As Diana is taken away from her house, now covered in an isolation bubble, she says “For the first time in my life, the future felt futuristic”; for Julien, the sting took away a life “like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up.” It’s in these details, not the overall picture, that readers will find the generation of which Vonnegut spoke, though as with Coupland’s Generation X, it isn’t a complete portrait. An initially puzzling backdrop gives the narrative just enough momentum to nose these characters into a place where they can explore how much they have in common. If Generation X gave us “tales for an accelerated culture,” then Generation A is its natural extension, offering tales for the information overloaded. The bite-sized chapters and witty tone will appeal to those with perpetual attention defi cits, and bits of pop culture sprinkled liberally throughout will attract readers highly attuned to the current zeitgeist. Coupland clearly understands the minds of the current generation – young people who have never known a time without the Internet – and plays on their desire to jump continually from one subject to the next.  Generation A feels like a slow-motion demonstration of the ways in which technology is destroying story, and not the enacted triumph of story over technology that Coupland so clearly wishes it to be.
In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the wowrld, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated searately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. Generation A mirrors the structure of 1991's Generation X as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defences we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and entertaining novel to date. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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 Google Books — Ladataan...LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo: (3.49)
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The book takes place in a not too distant future where all the bees have died or disappeared, affecting flowers and crops and things. Life for people seems not too greatly different than we have now, but things like fresh fruit are a rarity. The story follows five youngish people from different parts of the world who’ve each been stung by a bee.
The government swoops in and takes each them to a separate research facility to see what about them might’ve drawn bees that were thought to be extinct.
I started to finally get into the story at the point were each of the five was in their isolated research facility, and through their being released and getting back home.
But then researchers decide to put the five of them together in one place, where they have to make up and tell stories to one another. I didn’t enjoy most of those stories, as the characters were not written to be very good storytellers, and I don’t feel like Coupland pulled off the stories-within-the-story thing, not with interesting stories.
While I like most of Coupland’s books, this one just didn’t do it for me. (