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Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)
Overall, though, both shows are riffs on the same Mary Tyler Moore theme, which after 30 years has become the key slogan of TV feminism: They're going to make it after all.
The New York Times has published innumerable editorial riffs on these themes.
West goes on tremendous name-dropping riffs.
Critics love the child's comic riffs but lament that the narrator's voice often sounds more like a middle-age man's than a 9-year-old girl's.