Girlfriend in a Coma

Book: Girlfriend in a Coma
Author: Douglas Coupland
Where I Read It: Hmm.. this one throws me a little. I don't remember reading it, although, I know I have. It was probably read while waiting for my then-boyfriend to get off work from his early morning coffee shop job so we could go out for breakfast.

What I Thought: Not much. Although I adore Douglas Coupland enough to sort of wish his first name was David so he could be inducted into the David Trifecta(but of course then it would have to be the 'David Quad,' or the 'David Rhombus' or something), I didn't feel like this was his best effort. In fact, it was his weakest.

Story is, there's a ghost of a jock floating around for the first little bit. Then, two teenagers, Richard and Karen, do what teenagers will, and did it. But in the freezing cold of winter outside, which I didn't really buy, and then Karen unknowingly ODs at a party and slips into a 20 year coma. She also happens to get pregnant from the first and only time she has sex, and gives birth to a daughter.

Then she eventually wakes up and everyone else on the planet except for this pocket of loser friends of hers falls asleep forever.

Post apocalyptic panic grips them, and eventually someone realizes they are going to have to make a sacrifice in order to make things right.

Large attempt to be whimsical, perhaps, just comes out as confusing. Would probably not read this again.