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I love Coupland. I own all of his books. But I know that a few of those are just sorta ok. This one is his best since a Girlfriend in a Coma (which is one of my top three books of all time). These tiny, interconnected character studies are bite sized moments of brilliant writing. So evocative. So fun. Surprising. Really refreshing read from a favorite author who can still do it!

Great characters, though they're a lot of them which is hard to keep track of for me. The writing is wonderful. I feel like the connections to get me and discovered made this book, but could have been done without one storyline being included. That just felt extraneous.

Totally, absolutely, kinda ok. This book was obviously written before his more famous, and better, Ready Player One. And it's just not as good. The characters are not well written at all, and the story is pretty dumb. It's got a hackneyed story line and is really just an opportunity for Cline to show off his deep knowledge of pop culture. Sure, I read the whole thing but I was traveling for work and brainless, just ok entertainment was what I needed. But honestly, it just wasn't that good.

Terrible

Whoa. Quite a book. After an engaging start and some very impressive building, the ending was a bit too pay and fast. But well worth it and a surprising read.

I'd never heard of this series or author. I think I picked it up from a Free Library so I had some skepticism. After all, a lot of science fiction is a good idea poorly written. This was a good idea well done though. Very good world building and an impressive range of styles in each story. I look forward to the next book.

This is the case of three stars is too low four stars is too high. I like this book though I didn't think it was fun to read. It was a book that everybody had to read in my high school but in the year before I started. I can understand why it was designed and I'm glad it was but I feel the telling of the story has matured over the years thanks to other authors. That said it was an important book in the culture and should continue to be read because it introduced Western world to The narrative of the negative effects of colonialism

A good book and a quick read. Definitely sad and sometimes frustrating because it's easy to think that you know better. But if you let go of your preconceptions that come from growing up in your culture, this is a window into how's family from another culture deals with tragedy.

I really enjoyed the structure of this book. 7 travelers on a package, ditched together by circumstance. Each tells their tale a la The Canterbury Tales. Each story is told differently and really well crafted. On to of yours, the world building is intriguing.