Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Registered by pumpkin-head of Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on 2/8/2006
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by pumpkin-head from Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80's fall-out of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation- Generation X.
Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertisers target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the Californian desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry.
Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuge their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories: disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead tv shows, 'Elvis moments' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture...
Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertisers target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the Californian desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry.
Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuge their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories: disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead tv shows, 'Elvis moments' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture...
Journal Entry 2 by pumpkin-head at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, March 2, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (3/2/2006 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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In the post to RonOren
In the post to RonOren
Just arrived; thanks for it, pumpkin-head! Since it turned out as an RABCK rather than a ray, it'll go to the slow side of Mt. TBR, so do make sure to let me know if anyone else is interested in it.
This is a really strange book! The first time I tried it, I couldn't get past the first three or so chapters, which seemed completely separate stories to me. But after putting it down for a few weeks and starting again, I got sucked in completely and could hardly put it down. I must've been in a different mood the second time around, but it still says something about the book, doesn't it?
To me it felt that the book has no story-line, really (although there is some change in the situation of the protagonists). Rather, it's an elaborate sketch of the lives of people who try to avoid the nineties-culture. Normally, I wouldn't like that kind of book, but this one did work. It was... haunting may even be the best word!
Thanks for letting me read this, pumpkin-head! I'll move it on to DJgib, who's interested in it as well.
To me it felt that the book has no story-line, really (although there is some change in the situation of the protagonists). Rather, it's an elaborate sketch of the lives of people who try to avoid the nineties-culture. Normally, I wouldn't like that kind of book, but this one did work. It was... haunting may even be the best word!
Thanks for letting me read this, pumpkin-head! I'll move it on to DJgib, who's interested in it as well.
No idea what it's about, we'll soon find out...
Argh, waited far too long to journal this and now I can't remember the details. I do remember that I thought it was a great read, very unsettling. Although I have managed not to sink to the level of apathy that the characters have achieved, I can see where the feeling comes from among people from my generation and this book serves as a stark warning to all those who feel they can get through life without giving any meaning to it.
Journal Entry 7 by RonOren at Cambridge Railway Station in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Sunday, July 18, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (7/18/2010 UTC) at Cambridge Railway Station in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
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I'll probably leave it past the barriers, somewhere on platforms 1 or 4