Douglas Coupland C or D

Coming to the ritzier neighbourhoods of Vancouver: Coupland's V-POLES.

Operative word in the headline is "may".

I've been getting back into him. (Loved the first four books as a teenager; didn't like Polaroids or Coma and never followed him again.) Read Hey Nostradamus over the summer and just finished Generation A, liked both a lot and actually thought Generation A was great, the way all this stuff that never really added up suddenly came together in a totally unexpected way with the twist. Not a rewrite of X at all.

Been digging back into Microserfs - always thought his stuff was light fluffy reading but this is kind of a slog tbh

the european guy and the Indian guy were both too stereotypical which irritated me

I really liked Harj (who was Sri Lankan, not Indian). I'm not sure in what ways he was stereotypical, really (although I'm not sure "Vetharanayan" is a common last name; "Vethanarayan" sounds more likely to me). I really liked how he was always very conscious of the stereotypical impressions that Westerners, especially Americans, would have of him, and would manipulate or leverage these to achieve his goals. There were two major French characters and I don't really think "self-absorbed WoW addict" or "sarcastic assholish scientific genius" are dominant French stereotypes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZJjXph4kA

Most recently updated DC thread, so for those interested, https://westvancouverartmuseum.ca/exhibitions/rabbit-lane-douglas-coupland is winding up this weekend in Vancouver, BC. Photographs inspired by his _Girlfriend in a Coma_. Ordered the show's catalog for $46 incl s&h to the US.

Was happy reading _Binge_, his latest - brief vignettes flitting around various characters, some interconnected, with his usual witty character observations.