"Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" was written by Douglas Coupland in 1991, and it's where the term Gen X came from.
Decent book, but my favorite one of his is "Life After God". If you want the stories and thought processes of people in the counter-culture of that generation, he captures it amazingly well with these books. T…
"Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" was written by Douglas Coupland in 1991, and it's where the term Gen X came from.
Decent book, but my favorite one of his is "Life After God". If you want the stories and thought processes of people in the counter-culture of that generation, he captures it amazingly well with these books. Tops any understanding of it you might be trying to glean from listening to the top grunge-rock albums of the time.
Imagination and culture started dying out after Gen X, which is why all the names for subsequent generations are so lame. No one could come up with anything better than to copy and paste Coupland. At least, I can't name any authors within those generations who have managed to capture their own zeitgeist, but perhaps there's no blame because there's not really any zeitgeist to capture anymore. I know, whomp whomp. (exactly: this is how the world ends...not with a bang, but a whimper)
"Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" was written by Douglas Coupland in 1991, and it's where the term Gen X came from.
Decent book, but my favorite one of his is "Life After God". If you want the stories and thought processes of people in the counter-culture of that generation, he captures it amazingly well with these books. Tops any understanding of it you might be trying to glean from listening to the top grunge-rock albums of the time.
Imagination and culture started dying out after Gen X, which is why all the names for subsequent generations are so lame. No one could come up with anything better than to copy and paste Coupland. At least, I can't name any authors within those generations who have managed to capture their own zeitgeist, but perhaps there's no blame because there's not really any zeitgeist to capture anymore. I know, whomp whomp. (exactly: this is how the world ends...not with a bang, but a whimper)