Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

I figured I better finally get around to reading this, since it's supposed to be me and everything. It's a suprisingly good book: entertaining and cleverly written, sometimes a bit too overwritten. It's also a pretty light book, not nearly as "important" as many people were claiming when it came out. It doesn't even contain the genex stuff I know and love, cynicism about advertisement and general hopelessness in the world. But then, to Coupland "Generation X" is people who are early 30s now: I think the term has been misapplied. My main disappointment was that the book is, ultimately, just another character development story. Catcher in the Rye for the next Lost Generation.