It's really refreshing to read about a single guy who is desperate to be a dad that he's willing to trade his much valued sports car for a toyota and redecorate his playroom into a nursery. He's willing to do anything to achieve his goal. I enjoyed reading this book!

A blast to read, these are mini-bits of Canadian culture, with a typical Coupland twist and wit. While I'm happy to lend this one out to locals, it's an autographed and personalized copy, and as such, it has to come back to me - promise? I met Mr. Copeland after an evening where he'd just won an award, and as such, he was a wee bit "under the weather" which is why said autographed and personalized front page is a bit off. When he greeted me he said it was nice to see a young Canadian interested in history, and I told him I was actually a Brit, but a landed immigrant. He spelled my name wrong and wrote "to a fellow Canadian" on the page. Heh.

Love his Canada books, nostalgic and humour.

Though I've been to Canada, after I finished reading this book I felt as if I hadn't.

What a country! And what feelings of nostalgia and gratitude and cautious pride this book evokes.

Go CANADA!

quirky nostalgic

Continuing love affair with Canada / with Coupland / with nostalgia.

More in the style of City of Glass, covering Coupland's personal take on what he consideres the near-universals of Canadian life. It's a trilogy, or more, I guess, with a part 2 to read, a documentary film, and the film's subject--a temporary art installation in a CMHC-plan house that was later demolished.

Some of it is very accurate but I think for the most part it takes the attitude of a very specific section of canadians geographical and generaltional.

great pictures in this one

It was okay, but a little boring. Sorry Douglas! I guess as an American I am not really that interested in our neighbors to the north, probably because I grew up in such close proximity to them. They're hardly exotic, and in many ways pretty similar to us. I am a little envious of Canadians in that they don't have many of the same problems we have (gun violence, etc.), they have better health care, and no one gives them a hard time when they travel abroad (which probably explains why many carry rucksacks with a maple leaf on them immediately identifying them as Canadian). Plus, their (medical) drugs are cheaper, which is why I plan many boarder crossings once I'm elderly and need that sort of thing.