Coupland, Douglas
Summary: "Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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Summary: "Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Raymond Gunt, in the words of the author, is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Contents: The sun is your enemy -- Our parents had more -- Quit recycling the past -- I am not a target market -- Quit your job -- Dead at 30 buried at 70 -- It can't last -- Shopping is not creating -- Re con struct -- Enter hyperspace -- December 31, 1999 -- New Zealand gets nuked, too -- Monsters exist -- Don't eat yourself -- Eat your parents -- Purchased experiences don't count -- Remember earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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Summary: Liz Dunn has little to keep her going until a strange young man named Jeremy arrives in her life, upsetting her routine and triggering events that take Liz around the world, into danger, and for the first time, within reach of happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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Summary: Over the course of several months, two retail workers at an office supply superstore--Roger, a divorced, middle aged "aisles associate" at Staples, and his young co-worker, Bethany, an early twenty-something, former Goth--strike up a unique epistolary friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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Summary: In 1988, an episode of teenage violence transforms a suburban community, as parents try to cope with the discovery of their children's underground world and the survivors deal with their painful memories of what happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003
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Summary: On surviving a plane crash, a beauty queen disappears to live a meaningful life and meets a film producer with similar goals. But their romance is threatened by her mother, who wants her back in the limelight. A satire on celebrity status by the author of Generation X.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Independent Pictures 2007