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Chargement... Polaroids from the Dead (1996)par Douglas Coupland
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not my favorite of Coupland's books by any stretch, but Polaroids From The Dead did offer some insightful observations about pop culture and its effects on the way we view life in general. I've always felt that reading Coupland speeds up the pace of your thinking, but diminishes the depth of those same thoughts. While that may seem a rather negative comment to make about a writer, it is totally in keeping with the topics and characters he creates. And with the society he critiques. I found much of this pretty dull, aside from the essay about the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, which I had already read in "City of Glass." (In fairness, "Polaroids" did come out first.) However, the final essay about Brentwood is wonderful. If you're a fan of L.A. neighborhoods, the book may be worth it just for that. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Douglas Coupland takes his literary talent in a new direction with this collection of takes on life and death in North America - from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain and the middle class." "Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about the pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction - keen outtakes on life in the late twentieth century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized herein." "By turns hugely funny, savagely ironic and poignantly searching, this collection has appeal for everyone cognizant of the first half of this decade and looking for navigation in the second."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The three sections: stories set around Dead culture, pieces of travel writing mixed with memories of Vancouver, and a lengthy bit of meditations on the LA community of Brentwood, are thematically tied together with photos ranging from the iconic to the obscure. All packaged in pages the color of an undeveloped Polaroid.
As in 'Life After God' Coupland drops much of his surface humor and digs under the surface of modern life. He is a quality writer, but I have to admit that my attention started lagging at the last section, I suppose the O.J. Simpson trial and controversy has lost its flash.
That, might actually prove Coupland's point. His writing, in here and elsewhere, mostly deals with the new methods people use to communicate and distance themselves at the same time. His message is just as important in the age of Facebook as it was in the 90s at the dawn of the internet age. ( )