Binge

60 stories to make your brain feel different

De: Douglas Coupland

Narrado por: Salvatore Antonio, Stephanie Belding, Victoria Carr, Jarvis Cocker, Douglas Coupland, Bret Easton Ellis, Anna Faris, Will Ferguson, Genki Ferguson, Chuck Klosterman, Andrew Moodie, Jane Pratt, Katie Ryerson, Michael Stipe

The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one.


Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not.

Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny.

Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.

Featuring stories narrated by:

Victoria Carr; Selena Dhillon; Stephanie Belding; Lorna Wilson; Liz Dunn; Jane Pratt; Charlotte Shaifer; Caleb Stull; Salvatore Antonio; Will Ferguson; Douglas Coupland ; Genki Ferguson; Jarvis Cocker; Chuck Klosterman; Michael Stipe; and Bret Easton Ellis

Reseñas de la Crítica

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“The 60 pieces of micro-fiction found in [Binge]—sometimes linked, occasionally by plotline, but mainly by recurring characters—are precisely honed. . . . Hooks abound in Binge, pulling readers from one bite-sized story . . . to the next.” —Maclean’s

“[A] diverting set of literary appetizers.” —Publishers Weekly

"[A] mind-bender. . . . Coupland’s voice is as clever as ever, creating a specific sense of place.” —Winnipeg Free Press

Great work of cultural insight and detail

Couplands eye for the general western narrative of the subnorms is sharp... yet lacks depth of ethnic diversity.

Great book

Gritty and extremely honest. It’s the everyday brutal and interesting. And the readings are great too.

Ready to read it again

First time I remember finishing a book and deciding to read it again immediately before my next 20000 days pass.

Stories as interwoven as life itself

At first it seemed daunting that there would be 60 short stories that I would be listening to, I thought I’d bore easily despite loving several Of the authors books. Once I realized how different the characters were, I was engaged. Then when I started to see the threads weaving together between the different short stories, I was thrilled. With this said it will come to an end - and that end is just another short story of an interrelated character. I would love to purchase a map laying out all the connections. Loved it.

Great Coupland Book!

Having loved Coupland's earlier work, Binge is a return to form. Great stories! Great performances! Laugh out loud funny in places...worth the listen.