My favorite book of all time. Every now and again - like some post-modern Bible - I'm forced to read its words again. So much depth in (apparently) simple prose... Magnificent.

Some of my favorite quotes from this book:

“And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.”

“I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.”

“Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.”

I can’t say I know exactly what Life After God is about. I know I never felt like I was reading a cohesive novel. I know it was easy to become immersed in it for fairly lengthy periods of time. In fact, I read it in just a few reading sessions. And I know it says something about being dissatisfied with life yet hopeful all the same. Enjoyed parts of the plot and the brief contemplations just enough to keep Coupland on my read-one-more-of-his lists. The question is, which one?

Nesupratau knygos prasmės ir kam ją reikėjo išspausdinti.

I read a ton of Coupland's stuff about 10 years ago (including this book). I don't even know what happened to my original copy but I picked it up at a used book sale a few weeks ago. Though I don't fawn over his writing in the same way I might have 10 years ago, I still really enjoyed reading this again.