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Bezig met laden... Generation A (origineel 2009; editie 2009)door Douglas Coupland (Auteur), C.S. Richardson (Ontwerper), Glenn O'Neill (Omslagontwerper)
Informatie over het werkGeneratie A door Douglas Coupland (2009)
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 1   KevinRubin | Mar 6, 2022 |    ) Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |  ) GeorgeHunter | Sep 13, 2020 | *This is the guy who coined the term GenX and I'd expect more respect for the naming system. ( ) rickycatto | Sep 9, 2020 | brandonlee | Jun 11, 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.
Generatie A speelt zich af in de nabije toekomst, in een wereld waar bijen zijn uitgestorven. Totdat vijf mensen die elkaar niet kennen in verschillende delen van wereld worden gestoken. Hun gedeelde ervaring verbindt ze op een manier die ze nooit hadden kunnen vermoeden. Net als in veel van Couplands werk laveert deze roman tussen optimisme over de toekomst en existenti©±le angst. Generatie A is verbeeldingrijk, vindingrijk en onderhoudend. Het is Couplands meest ambitieuze roman tot nu toe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.5)
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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. (