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Lädt ... Spieler Eins: Roman in 5 Stunden (2010)von Douglas Coupland
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I've really enjoyed some of Coupland's books. But I actively disliked every.single.character. In this one, and disliked the literary device of switching between the different POV's. ( ) I believe the author intended this book as a sequel to >Life After God,/i>, even going so far as to re-use the best line of that earlier book, and as a middle aged member of Generation X, I can get behind that. The climate crisis has supplanted nuclear warfare as our prime existentialist threat, while technology and capitalism fuel disconnection even more than 25 years ago. The ending is far too optimistic for a Gen Xer to believe, which downgrades my rating. Recommended for all libraries, especially readers of a certain age. I'm not sure I understood this book, in all honesty. Coupland is asking questions about humanity and society here, delving into themes like the meaninglessness of human existence, the inevitability of death, and what exactly it means to be human. I didn't feel that this was as much a story as it was a framework for him to discuss his ideas. The characters are more like sock puppets with Coupland speaking through them; their conversations easily and frequently turn to philosophical themes and the storyline itself is pretty absurd. My first Coupland book, and most definitely will not be my last! A really excellent novel on what it would be like if the world ran out of oil played out over five hours while five people wait in an airport lounge for their flight that will never depart. I like this rating system by ashleytylerjohn of LibraryThing (https://www.librarything.com/profile/ashleytylerjohn) that I have also adopted: (Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.)
The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant; but after 12 novels it can seem a little familiar. His characters are still wondering what would happen to someone who is technically immortal but killed in an explosion: how would all the pieces come back together? And if you could take a pill to make you normal, would you do it? If there is a God, does he like people or not? Gehört zu VerlagsreihenCBC Massey Lectures (2010) Auszeichnungen
A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species and that there is no turning back. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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