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[listersgirl]

Canada Reads starts next week! I actually read all the shortlist this year - this was made easier by putting them on hold at the library literally as they were announced.

So, my own personal choices, in order from least to most favourite:

5. Good to a Fault*
4. Generation X**
3. The Jade Peony
2. Nikolski
1. Fall On Your Knees

*It's very well written, and I'd recommend it to other people, but I found it too stressful to read (far more stressful than it was intended to be), which I think left me a little angry at the book. Sorry, book!

**I had a very hard time placing this book. I love a lot of Coupland's early books, but this was never one of my favourites, and the writing style that made it so entertaining and revolutionary when it was written has been copied so often that it feels a bit pale now.

And, my prediction for the order they will be knocked off:

5. Generation X
4. Nikolski
3. Fall On Your Knees
2. Good To A Fault
1. The Jade Peony

If it weren't for the Oprah thing, I think Fall On Your Knees would totally take it, but I think the previous wide exposure is going to lead to a fairly early exit. I'm probably totally wrong, though. :)

Anyone else read the books? Have predictions?

Comments

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Hurray, I found the Canada Reads post. :D

From the descriptions on the website, the only one that grabs me enough to make me read it is Nikolski -- it sounds quirky and enjoyable. The only one I've read is Gen X, about which I feel all the things said above about it not aging well or being as awesome as Microserfs. Because it hasn't and it isn't. :)

I'm curious to know what was annoying about Good to a Fault, but I don't want you to dwell on it in order to tell me. :) It mostly sounded stressful, because I seem to find all potentially wrenching ordinary-life-drama fiction stressful now.

[listersgirl]

You should read Nikolski - it was great, if somewhat forgettable after the fact. :)

Good To a Fault, I think I was annoyed by how stressed it made me - I spent the entire book feeling like the author was building to giant disasterous things, and that didn't happen, but it put me really on edge. So me more than the book, really.