> I somehow don't see people rushing the library bookshelves for Coupland in
> 100 years, though he has certainly done a lot of work on our current
> culture. Dostoevsky on the other hand seems to have made a very powerful
> impact on many, many people throughout the world, over 100 years after his
> death. It's hard to say which is "greater".
i don't think timelessness decides the greatness of a work. i like
coupland for now and his take on current culture, but like you said, he
probably won't be anything in 100 years (or 50 for that matter). the
extent to which a book is great is mostly relative to the reader, but
there is a certain standard for works that make them timeless. i read the
first 20 pages of Ulysses and was confused as to why anyone would waste
their time on it. the characters are dull. i doubt if i wrote a book
about a day in the life of myself it would ever be a classic.
natalie
she is something of an after dinner mint.
