Miss Wyoming

There's something in me that hates Douglas Coupland. Maybe it's that well-documented Canadian self-loathing that resents seeing one of our own succeed. Maybe it's because he can be too too cutesy sometimes, and it makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Maybe it's because Life After God was total qu......more

I really like Douglas Copeland, I don't know why, objectively his books are full of issues... But when I'm in a second hand bookshop browsing the C section of authors, I usually leave with a book or two of his. This one was odd. It follows Susan Colgate, an ex-pageant girl and John Johnson, a failing......more

Miss Wyoming is as delightful as it is frightening. Frightening in the sense that, yes, this is the human condition. It skips about in time, narrating both the history and current affairs of a former teen pageant queen and a washed up movie star. Susan Colgate has survived a plane crash followed by......more

3.5 stars I have been a supporter of Douglas Coupland for over 30 years now. When his writings work, they work. When they don't, it just feels like he is trying too hard. Miss Wyoming for the most part, works well. Primarily, this novel is the stories of a former beauty pageant queen and a former Hol......more

I found the general tone of the book a little too self-consciously cynical, kind of like a teenager trying really hard to look like they're not trying. The overall feeling I interpreted from Coupland with this writing style was one of narcissism and maybe as a result of that a kind of mean outlook t......more