I have said before that I love both Martin Millar and Douglas Coupland quite a lot. Well, Matt Ruff’s Fool on the Hill is like if Martin Millar and Douglas Coupland had a love child, and Douglas Coupland raised the kid because Martin Millar lived too far away, but the kid grew up reading Martin Millar’s books obsessively, and then the kid went to Cornell for college. I feel like that sequence of events could have produced Fool on the Hill. Fool on the Hill is a story about Cornell University (ever heard of it?), if Cornell University had fairies…
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The fact that I stopped reading All Families Are Psychotic and started reading this is just further proof that I think an enormous lot of thoughts in my brain, and many of them are rather irrational. In this case, my thinking was that if I was going to be disappointed in Douglas Coupland I’d rather be disappointed sooner than later. So instead of reading All Families are Psychotic, which Nymeth said was pretty good, I read Miss Wyoming, which I’d heard wasn’t very good at all. And then I shall read JPod because it looks strange, and then I shall…
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