Hey Nostradamus!

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• Let's get serious

  Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland 244pp, Flamingo, £15.99 It is alarming that an account of a high-school massacre is at the centre of Douglas Coupland's latest novel. Once such things begin to register in the laconic worldview of the prophet of G ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Hey Nostradamus!

  by Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus! is one of Douglas Coupland’s minor-key efforts. It doesn’t have the operatic heft of All Families Are Psychotic or the poppin’ fresh teen spirit of such earlier works as Microserfs. If anything, Coupland is again ... (read full critics)

  quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  Coupland è uno dei miei imprescindibili, quindi non sempre sono obiettivo. Questo comunque è il mio preferito. Un tema delicato (gli school shooting americani), un libro di un'umanità sconfinata. Forget "We Need to Talk about Kevin"!!

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  The Trash Palace said on Jun 29, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  " i believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world -spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss and mount mckinley - is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to committ all possible sins. "

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  kovalski said on Nov 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Update:11/11/06 Just about to start reading and having now read all the reviews, realise it is to be my third book in recent months with the theme of teenage shootings. What a scary world we live in! It will be interesting to see how it compares to the last two, 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'ht ... (continue)

  
  Update:11/11/06 Just about to start reading and having now read all the reviews, realise it is to be my third book in recent months with the theme of teenage shootings. What a scary world we live in! It will be interesting to see how it compares to the last two, 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4249735 and 'The Pact'http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3661600 both very very different. This will be more a comparison to the first title as that one is also about a massacre.

  This was disappointing, in that it did not come up to my expectations after reading all the reviews. Maybe I have read too much similar material recently, as in my opinion it comes nowhere near the novel by Lionel Shriver, mentioned in my previous journal entry. It was interesting, although I did not like the style it was written in, split into four different sections. I also found that like veleta, I still had questions I would have liked answered at the end of the story. It almost ended to abruptly?

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  Lindyloumac said on Sep 28, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  This is a very enjoyable book. Very touching, indeed. The characters are convincing and so is the plot. Made me cry. Includes many fine thoughts about religion. It's been a while since I read this, but still I quite often think about the characters and their lives. I recommend warmly.

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  berserkasfuck said on Oct 28, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  just finished, less than five minutes ago. intense and amazing. it looks like extraordinary stories, none of us will ever go through such lives... but that's just surrounding, what counts is the feeling. and that's normal. normal fears, normal sentiments. it's like being carried, with all the real f ... (continue)

  just finished, less than five minutes ago. intense and amazing. it looks like extraordinary stories, none of us will ever go through such lives... but that's just surrounding, what counts is the feeling. and that's normal. normal fears, normal sentiments. it's like being carried, with all the real feelings, in an unreal life going through murder, massacre, hate. bring normal life to the extreme.

  http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3583350

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  ilmatte said on Jul 9, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 272 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0007182589
• ISBN-13: 9780007182589
• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Pub date: Apr 05, 2004
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Libri Italiani

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