Hey Nostradamus!

In the novel Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland, he used a lot of flashbacks in each chapter in order develop a loop; when a current event is happening, it will also refer back to what has happened before, and then it will come back to the present and talk about the current event, and so on. Although using flashbacks is a good way to allow the reader to get a better understanding of the story, I do not enjoy reading this type of novel because it makes me frustrated and impatient. The story makes me dizzy by jumping back and forth. Also, I expected the story will going to be focusing on the three killers because I am more interested in their actions. This novel is easy to read and to understand because it is written like a drama, where each action is related to the next and they are mostly predictable, too. Although this novel is about the teenagers’ lives, I am not able to put myself into this novel because I admired the women deeply in the The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson. I do not enjoy reading Hey Nostradamus! is also because it only gives a dull and a depressed atmosphere, which makes me upset whenever I put down the book. Moreover, it is a challenge for me to pick up this novel because the cover gives me a horror feel.