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Title	:	Girlfriend in a Coma
Author	:	Douglas Coupland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1999 by ReganBooks (first published January 1st 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Science Fiction

Girlfriend in a Coma

Douglas Coupland

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 17941 Users | 810 Reviews

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'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?' It's 15 December, 1979, and Richard's girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she's locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later - a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?

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Original Title:	Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN:	0060987324 (ISBN13: 9780060987329)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Vancouver, British Columbia(Canada)

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These two stars are given only because of the nice and catchy beginning of the book. The rest just had me like "Why am I even reading this?"

This short novel was based on the usual dystopian world picture: everyone is dead and at least until the few good survivors can get their act together and "go back to the land" they scavenge. The differences were that it starts with the pregnant girlfriend of a teenage boy, both part of a very sociable crowd of kids, falling into a coma. 17 years later she awakens (with a 16 year old daughter!) and her friends have all grown up but not necessarily as their best selves and everyone else in the

I suppose I was pretty much destined to not like this book very much. The message just doesn't do it for me, pretty much rings false, and induces a serious eyeroll. Maybe it would have been different ten years ago when the book came out. Maybe it would have been different if I was younger when I read it. But such as it is, I found it a pretty insipid book. I'm never going to like a story that focuses on high school friends years after high school. There is just something terribly repulsive for

Not what I expected. A morality lesson. Blechhh.

This book started out with an intriguing premise: what would happen if a teenage girl fell into a coma, and then her boyfriend found out she was pregnant? If she was vegetative but steady, how would she affect the lives of her high school friends? It's well written, and everything's going along pretty well until BAM (spoiler) it turns into an apocalyptic "The Stand" type book right out of the blue. It might have been better had I known what to expect. That's a completely different kind of



First of all, sorry Kenny!I really wanted to like this book, as I've wanted to read it for ages and when I was younger I used to LOVE Douglas Coupland, but it has become obvious now that some lovers should remain in the past. An example; around the same age as I was going through my Coupland phase, my favourite band were The Ataris. Their lyrics resounded with me. I tried listening to them again recently, and for the most part, I cringed.What I didn't like about 'Girlfriend' was that the