 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £0.01 where it all began for us - seeing ourselves in print
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 | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 coupland at his best
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £2.89 chilling, seminal and challenging - more existential than pomo but helps to see where it's all come from
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £1.50 could we be heading Huxley's way...?
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £2.95 or Orwell's way...?
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 | POSTMODERNITY SECOND EDITION (Concepts in the Social Sciences) by Lyon
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £4.88 David Lyon has some answers - one of the best introductions i know - brilliant
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 | The Simulacra (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.68 clever but very weird - i'd not read any Philip iDick before, but this was very readable indeed. Fascinating
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 | How to Travel with a Salmon: And Other Essays by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £5.00 the title story is absolutely hilarious - with lots of other thoughts and insights
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 | The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.42 surprising but very thought-provoking
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 | The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory & History of Literature)
Buy new: £10.01 / Used from: £9.26 this is the biggy - not for the faint-hearted but a seminal text
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 | Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.65 fun, whimsical and pretty interesting really
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 | Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.39 very insightful and interesting too
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 | Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications by D.A. Carson
Buy new: £6.31 / Used from: £4.50 pretty polemical (which is probably not very helpful) but his overview of where we are is excellent, as well as giving pointers for dangers ahead (and smaller than Gagging of God!)
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 | The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism by D. A. Carson
bit of a doorstop but it is worth reading chh2&3 for insights into where things are
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 | Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Christopher Butler
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.70 another really helpful intro
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 | God, Sex and Generation: A Search for Lost Wonder by Mike Starkey
Buy used from: £0.01 brilliant and full of the absurdities and yet unquestioned assumptions of modern life
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 | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Buy used from: £7.15 startling indictment of TV culture - compelling and challenging
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 | Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.50 controversial only if you think that a thinker's private life has nothing to do with their public and intellectual life - brilliant expose of hypocrisy of many of the West's most influential thinkers
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 | The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.01 not Coupland at his best, but still worth the read - funny, quirky (sometimes downright weird) but very insightful at times
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