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Title: Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland, Judith Regan ISBN: 0-671-75506-4 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (56 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll Either Love This Book or Hate It.
Comment: I personally loved it, but I'll admit there are some people out there who have a hard time grooving on it. Coupland has an incredible way of stating things that you didn't even realize you were feeling because you've locked those thoughts too deeply inside yourself. He pulls these things out into the light and lets you get a good look at them. Shampoo Planet is perhaps not as mainstream as Microserfs and not as likely to hit you in the pit of your stomach as Life After God, but it's my favorite of his books because it's so well written. Don't read the general reviews of it; they don't tell you enough about what the story is ABOUT. As someone on the young edge of Gen-X, I can totally relate to the main character Tyler, as he tries to work out who he is and where he belongs. It's a great book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Benetton Teens In A Decayed World
Comment: Douglas Coupland's follow-up to the "yuppie-busting" book, Generation X, has a heart of it's own and message devised through hip words and a journey for self-discovery. The book is about 20-year-old Tyler Johnson, who lives in the poor town of Lancaster, with his hippie mom, Jasmine, and his girlfriend, Anne-Louise. He's majoring in hotel management at the community college, while dreaming of wealth and wondering which hair product he should wear that day. The story is written perfectly, in a sardonic "teenty" voice, talking about things that happened in the past six months.
The book is meant to talk about the generation after Gen-X, which would be what scientists and researchers today call "Gen-Y" or "The Millenial Generation." Douglas Coupland predicted a lot of our qualities (materialism, mall-ratting, computer-savvyness) but made his character's too old. I don't wanna rag on Douglas, because this book rocks (I'm 14 so I'm Gen-Y), but if Tyler says, "My memories began with Ronald Reagan" then he must be talking about the kid sisters and brothers of Gen-X because Gen-Y was just born in 1982, a time when at five, they would've seen Reagan's end and Bush, Sr.'s beginning. Tyler is 20 in 1992, so that would mostly be of the tale-ends of Gen-X (born in 1972).
This book is a satire, so Douglas wasn't trying to be really accurate. He called them "Benetton Teens" because of the colorful attitudes that they have. This book is truly a classic and belongs and some kind of summer reading list.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Nicely Done Trip With 20-somethings!
Comment: This is a very fine multi-generational tour with the junior college crowd in the town of Lancaster, Wa., with stops in Paris, Vancouver, and LA. A very funny ride that you'll breeze through! We go thru half-vanished malls, trailor parks, grandfathers busted in bad real estate deals who sell multilevel cat food, a very loving ex-hippie mother, and a vacuous stepfather, and other eccentrics of all ages. Well worth the ride and the time!
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Title: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 031205436X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: LIFE AFTER GOD : LIFE AFTER GOD by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0671874349 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0060987049 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 19 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0060987324 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland ISBN: 0060987219 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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