#72: The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
I feel like my count is off somewhere, because while I don’t think The Gum Thief is the last book I read in 2008, I can’t at the moment think of what book that was. Sigh. Anyway, I’m a huge Douglas Coupland fan, so I liked The Gum Thief, but if you’d never read any of his books and I raved at you about him and you picked this one (his latest) up and read it, you’d be like, “What’s the big deal about this guy?” The Gum Thief is not his best work by a mile. It’s entertaining and thought-provoking and well-written like all his other books, but for some reason it just didn’t get me in the same place as Hey Nostradamus! (my personal favorite), Microserfs, or even Girlfriend in a Coma.
