Girlfriend in a Coma

Douglas Coupland

This is the 3rd of his books I've read. I didn't enjoy it as much as the others. It was somewhat unsatisfying. I didn't get to like the characters much. It starts off when they are in school and they don't seem tpo grow up much or develop over the next 25 years. The author is saying that they are symptoms of society and is on some sort of crusade to tell us a big message. When this message arrives, it's a damp squib. The first half of the book is depressing and the second half supernatural.

Andrew had read it and liked it. It was an old-fashioned sci-fi story, and then it became reminiscent of Metamorphosis by Kafka. The characters get used to the woman being in a coma just as Kafka's get used to the man being an insect.
Rory 21/5/00

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