Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Douglas Coupland: Hey! Nostrodamus

My first Coupland, interesting.  A school shooting told by one of the dad victims, then the narration changes to the boyfriend whom ends the killing and tries to save the girl but she dies in his arms.  Then  the boyfriend's lover 10 years on, which really has nothing to do with the shootings, except to say that the boyfriend has a lot of hard times dealing with the disaster.  Then the Dad who is crazy religious.  It is a very interesting style of story telling, and I liked it a lot.  It ends oddly I thought, not much of a tidy bundle, which seems to suit the book anyway, I mean after a horrible thing happens to people how can life just roll on without a ton of consequences?  A worthy read for teens or adults.

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