false 22312 14 Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying northwest city and aspiring to a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed. This six-month chronicle of Tyler's life takes us to Paris and the ongoing party beside Jim Morrison's grave, to a wild island in British Columbia, the freak-filled redwood forests of northern California, a cheesy Hollywood, ultra-modern Seattle, and finally back home. On the way we meet a constellation of characters, among them: Jasmine, Tyler's Woodstock mom; Dan, his land-developer stepfather; "Princess Stephanie," Tyler's European summer fling; and Anna Louise, his post-feminist girlfriend with an eating disorder. Tyler's dizzying journey into the contemporary psyche -- a voyage full of rock videos, toxic waste, french-fry computers, and clear-cut forests -- is a spellbinding signature novel for a generation coming of age as the millennium comes to a close. 2509254 1992 Shampoo Planet total:2334|5:353|4:783|3:880|2:263|1:55| 2334 8118 2926 106 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 21:24:42 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 21:25:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue May 08 11:02:26 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 11:04:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 18:59:08 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 21:17:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 15:42:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:57:59 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 10:22:46 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 10:22:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 05:43:26 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:24:34 -0700 2009 1
A pretty interesting story. The narrator's voice was kind of grating in the beginning with his referring to his mother, Jasmine, by her first name, which always seems kind of impolite to me (I would never call my mum by her first name). However, once the story settled down and c...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 14:07:01 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 14:54:34 -0700 2008
Coupland writes for the generation before mine, his stories full of witticisms that seem dry now that they're over a decade old. I think the generational gap was too close for my comfort - the things th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 12 09:35:21 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 27 18:18:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 04:16:45 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 07:01:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 14 09:12:13 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:22:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 30 20:20:18 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 22:27:42 -0800 2008
"my memories begin with ronald regan - thoughts and ideas and remembrances like an explosion of white birds released on the coronation of the king. of the times befor...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 21 18:03:53 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 18:13:59 -0700 2007
i find it to be doug's much-maligned novel. or at least it was before he switched publishers and began writing books that none of his fans liked. (miss wyoming. *sigh*.) but back in the late nineties, when you asked a douglas coupland fan what their favourit...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 19:19:21 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 10:12:45 -0700 2008
Really, though, I enjoyed the growt...more...]]> 5 0 true false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 06 11:34:14 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 13:25:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 22 14:50:58 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 14:55:20 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 10:27:45 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 10:33:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sat Jan 10 16:35:33 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 16:40:48 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 04 06:46:28 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 08:31:50 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon May 18 09:43:49 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 09:44:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Fri Jan 30 17:57:49 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 18:18:39 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22312