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Got Your jPod Yet?

on 4-Jun-2006 in Reading, Science & Technology

Douglas Coupland is a writer who always seems to have his finger on the pulse. The media call it capturing the zeitgeist (he’s probably sick of hearing that word). So his new book is out simply called ‘jPod’. I really wonder how much of it is accident or contrived at this point, but I’ll give [...]

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Darkly Intriguing

on 5-Sep-2005 in Reading, The Flicks

I’ve never read any of Philip K. Dick’s books, nor for that matter found any of the film adaptations of his work particularly good, with the exception of Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report‘. However, I’m excited about the upcoming ‘A Scanner Darkly‘. There is a fine cast including Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson. And at [...]

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Life After God

Books I’ve Read Recently

on 17-May-2005 in Reading

Life After God One thing I love about Coupland is his sense of place. Many of his stories are set in Vancouver, and I can relate very much to his locations having lived there for a year. But even if set elsewhere, the descriptions make you feel like you are there. One review I read [...]

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