Daniel Robert Epstein: Douglas Coupland

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN: Douglas Coupland

When someone wants a novelist to write a screenplay about growing pot, illegal get rich quick schemes and beached whales, the first person you think of won’t be Douglas Coupland. But as you get deeper into the film Everything’s Gone Green and find that the protagonist, Ryan [played by Paulo Costanzo] has a family where ever member is nuts in their own unique way, you discover that movie is truly Coupland-esque. His parents grow marijuana and his brother just drives him insane. Ryan has just left his job and is now searching...

generation x changed my life.. he was the voice of dissent in my head that was mine... but so eloquently summed up... after finished the book I quit my office job... became a dominatrix and travelled the world for 5 years... and loved every fucking second of it.. I was 21 years old when I heard your voice god coupland

you rule

Man am I the only one who hates Douglas Coupland and thinks he's a pretentious boob? Maybe I'm just too young to get all of his cool nuances about life, or maybe, I just don't give a fuck because he reminds me of that Math teacher I had in high school who thought he was cool so he hit on all the hot girls, and didn't realize that nobody really took him seriously but himself.

I could never see myself wanting to party with him. I'd rather read one of his books and think I learned stuff about culture, when in actual fact I didn't really learn anything, I just thought I did.

And fuck, talking in the third person, motherfucker.

And fuck, here's hoping Canada produces something better in the literary department than this guy. God could we use a shit-kicker right now.

I always felt like I missed something from him due to my age or my attitude problem with people like him and his characters. I definitely think he is a talented and appicable monster, but for me he is like a drug I would never try because everyone I know that does it acts like an asshole.

Amen to that!

if it's as ridiculous as all families are psychotic, it may be a good film

oh this guy ... my first book of him was ..Life without a God ... it had the words I wanted to read all my life.