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Guide follows, in its hip, sassy, sexy way, this same theme. The textual problematic is played out in an arena where a self-conscious authorial voice, with all the correct pop-cultural references, narrates an often brutal and very explicit homo-erotic story of sex, drugs and rock 'n'roll. Whilst an LSD-induced lucidity, or perhaps simply the ingenuousness of youth, is nostalgically invoked, the ever present search for a more visceral sexual experience that could throw the narrator back into a more authentic sense of being continues throughout. The novel is very episodic with only the flimsiest of "stories": Dennis thinking of past sexual experiences, past valid experiences, fantasising along with his "friends" of future possible connections. They dream of sexually abusing the lead singer of a Britpop band; they watch more pornography; the magnitude of their indolence, and disappointment, continues in direct proportion to their drug-taking.
Cooper portrays a snuff-porn lifestyle saturated with ennui and pain but somehow gilded with hope. Like Generation X's Douglas Coupland Cooper is not nearly as world-weary as he seems. There is a humanity here and it is this humanity, this sense of care, coupled with the quality of the writing, that rescues the novel from its potential nihilism. Guide maps a certain set of existential crises and suggests that our responses, if they are to rescue us, must be embedded in our desires. --Mark Thwaite
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