About this title: Sarah Drummond-Fournier is an astronaut, but she was a thalidomide baby who only has one arm. As she's about to be launched on a space shuttle, she confesses that she has AIDS, which she got when a bullet passed through the body of her afflicted son, Wade, and into her own, when Wade's father tried to kill him. Meanwhile, Wade and his friends transport a stolen letter from Princess Di to a contact in the Bahamas.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781582341651ISBN:1582341656
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited
ISBN-13:9780679311409ISBN:0679311408
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781582341651ISBN:1582341656
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"This one goes a bit too far out there at times. Coupland has been slipping of late... there are flashes here that speak of something better than average that might have been. I keep waiting for his triumphant return to quality. The chops seems to be in working order... it's the authorial decision making that isn't up to snuff.
My friends who like this one a lot all identify strongly with the family disfunction portrayal. For the most part that is well done here. My system: 5 stars= Read it 3= On the fence 1= Skip it"
""All Families Are Psychotic" is a farce that explores dysfunctionality in modern families. The story (such that it is, given its farcical quality) is beyond believable; some of its characters include a thalidomide-baby (deprived of one arm) who grows up and becomes an astronaut, a sibling who unknowingly has sex with his step-mother after he meets her in a bar for the first time (and who is shot by his father after said dalliance), four (FOUR!) members of this same family who are HIV+ because of this sibling's sexual waywardness (including his mom, who, when he was shot by his father, the bullet exited him and entered his mother standing behind him)...As you can probably intuit, this is farce on a grand scale...but believability is irrelevant if you just read the book for its comedic value and its dead-on insights about today's nuclear family."
"Meet Wade. Wade seems to have a way of wrecking everything around him. For instance, "accidentally" sleeping with his father's new wife and giving her AIDS. And then "accidentally" giving his mother AIDS as well, when his father shoots him for the whole sleeping with his wife thing, and the bullet passes through Wade's AIDS-infested body and and rests neatly in his mother.
Wade isn't exactly doing so hot lately. But then, neither are the rest of his family. His white picket fence mother has a secret Internet porn addiction. His abusive father is blowing all of his money on drugs. His brother has attempted suicide a handful of times. Only his sister Sarah seems to have gotten it together, and the hopes of the family rest on her trip into space. Yes, Sarah seems alright. Which, of course, means she is hiding something...
Wade has a plan to make a few bucks. And the whole of his family gets dragged into it, bickering (when not straight up fighting) all of the way. And yet, they come together and bond in the end in a way only a family can. Dysfunctional love.
I think this novel is Coupland's way of reminding us that no matter how crazy things get, you only have one family, so you might as well make the best of it."
"This book was dreadful. I really liked "Microserfs" and was excited about reading another Douglas Coupland novel. The plot is so outlandish, that it is difficult to become emersed in the story. It was almost like the book was weird for the sake of being weird.
I also could not get a clear mental picture of any of the characters. They seemed to contradict themselves and their reactions to their environment and each other. I didn't feel that they were fully developed.
One bit that irked me, was the whole Disney World section. I visit WDW often and I felt it was as if Coupland had never set foot in the place. It drove me nuts, because all of his inaccuracies, took me out of the moment when reading.
I wouldn't tell anyone to avoid Coupland as an author, but definitely avoid this particular book. Awful."
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