just a few days left...

[khana]

...of the semester break. :(

at least I got up at a sane hour today. well, okay, 'sane': at 6am. that's way better than the early afternoon hours I have gotten used to over the last weeks, anyway.

so yeah, yesterday I was working as a bio-burger salesperson, and earned 50€ for it. yay. I was completely dead on my feet afterwards, but oh well. at least I was tired enough to be out as a light at an hour where that is somewhat useful. :)

today I'm doing insane amounts of laundry, and also started reading one of the required books for the semester.

weird thing about that, though. It's for the 'canadian dystopias' seminar, and you know, when I hear 'dystopia' I expect something vagiely science fiction/speculative fiction-y. This, Generation X by Douglas Coupland, is set about 1990 in Palm Springs (or at least I think it was 'now' when the book was written. Feels very much like it.) It has a vage dystopian worldview to it, but otherwise... I dunno. It's definitely not what I was expecting when I read the course description. So far, it's also a little boring. Well, at least it's only 180 pages. Should be doable by thursday.

Comments

[shiny_crystal]

Hmmm, I've read and liked Generation X plus I'm a huge fan of dystopia, but I don't really think this book qualifies as one ... Perhaps they thought of the stories the people tell each other as dystopias? There is one rather memorable End-of-the-World scenario, best part of the entire book :)

[khana]

I'll probably see on thursday why the lecturer thought it qualified for the seminar, but, well. so far, I can't say that i see the dystopia. so far, I don't like the book all that much, either, possibly because it feels to much like pop-literature, and I'm really really not a fan of pop-lit. :(

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

*cough* I mean, isn't Canada like, one big dystopia? ;)

[khana.livejournal.com]

*grins*

possibly. quite possibly.

but still. it's much more pop-literature (ugh. UGH.) than dystopian. lots of whitty/pretentious pseudo-definitions of various things the author deems important in the overly thick margins, stuff like that. semi-depressed 'twenty-somethings' with no real jobs and no real future milling around, talking to each other or at each other about stuff that no one gets or should need to get. first person narrator has two dogs that he doesn't seem to care enough about to so much as tell me their names. things like that. reminds me a little of soloalbum, only that so far, the narrator isn't quite as in love with himself as that arsehole was.

[winterspross.livejournal.com]

Hm. Diese Dystopie kenn ich ja noch nicht, muss die mal auf meine Liste setzen. :)

[khana.livejournal.com]

ich kann noch nicht garantieren, dass es tatsächlich ne dystopie, oder auch nur gut ist. warte mit dem auf-die-liste-setzen erstmal, bis ich durch bin? bisher ists mehr pop-literatur als alles andere...

[winterspross.livejournal.com]

Nkay, dann warte ich auf dein Urteil. :)