Simon Rochard Rochard থেকে Collinwood, MN, USA
What a great book to read on a plane. :) A group of people is trapped in an airport hotel's bar when peak oil hits. The world goes into chaos and the group must defend themselves against a sniper. As usual, I dug Coupland's characters - a very-recently-former pastor, an affair-seeking soccer mom, an Asperger's-spectrum beauty, and more. His writing dovetails well with my voyeuristic/people-watching tendancies because his characters are so dang detailed. It was interesting reading this immediately after finishing Coupland's Generation A. In that, I enjoyed the gimmick of falling into a collection of short stories for a significant portion of the book. In this, I found the gimmick ("Who is Player One?" and the list of terms at the end) a bit distracting and unnecessary. There was a lot more plot here, and the plot was riveting.