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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Scholastic Book Fair > Books You Liked But Don't Wanna Go Back To Cause They Might Suck Now
 
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Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011

Youremother posted:

I forgot I read I Am The Messenger in high school. I had really liked The Book Thief and my school library had a copy of IATM, but it was a real snooze.

I guess for me, the book I wouldn't want to re-read is JPod by Douglas Coupland. My high school library also had a copy of this (god knows why) and I adored it when I was a teen for its experimental formatting, surrealism, and cynical humor but... I don't think adult me would enjoy it even half as much. It was the perfect kind of book for that loner kid who thinks humanity is stupid, selfish, and unworthy, but I think I'd find its cynicism grating now that I'm in the age range of the protagonists.

OMG, I impulse bought JPod as a teen because I thought the cover was kind of fun and I didn't understand it at all. I even read one of Coupland's earlier books, the big important Gen X one, to see if that would help and it didn't. I flipped through it later in life and had the vague sense it was all nonsense and promptly gave away both books. I wonder if that dude is an idiot actually

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Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011

Action Jacktion posted:

maybe

‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland

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