His best yet, more grown up (Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland)

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Product:	Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland
Date:	10/05/01 (73 review reads)
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Advantages: Thought provoking, Departure from sentimentality of old, Can't put it down

Disadvantages: It ends, unfortunately

If you've read Coupland before, and you took to it like me, then you won't be dissapointed by this book, the intelligence and melding of science fact with emotion is just as good (if not better) than ever.

The general theme of the book is similar to a lot of his others, basically escaping from day to day mundane life, but this time, the book feels a lot more grown up, bigger, weightier, once i was into reading it, i found i didn't miss the quirkier stylisms of his earlier books like 'microserfs' variants in typography. It feels like coupland's promise has come of age, blending facts with fiction and feelings.

It is a very complex book,

But basically, it's a tale of two seperate people, Susan colgate (an 80's tv actor) and John johnson (an action movie producer), it starts off with them meeting by chance, and basically falling in love. Then Susan dissapears. The rest of the book is split chapter by chapter, and rotates between both of their pasts, and John trying to find out where Susan has got to. We find out that both of them have tried to get away from their own lives for a year, and john saw susan on the television when he was in rehab, when she was Miss wyoming, and fell in love with her...
It's a modern love story really, but it's also something of a mystery as we try to figure out what happened to make Susan dissapear... We find out in the end, but i won't spoil it..

But i wouldn't really start with this book if you're new to Douglas Coupland, he is a very individual author i find, it may be better to start with one of his earlier ones, such as 'girlfriend in a coma' or 'Generation x' his writing to me is more about little observations and moments inside the story, and they often take preference over the broad scheme of things.

And if you're a fan, and wondering over whether to buy it, i say don't hesitate, it's his best in my
opinion, two thumbs up!

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