Jessie's review of Shampoo Planet
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
Coupland had some on-mark passages and way of using words that makes you want to read paragraphs again and again....
"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 before regan i remember little fleeting, ghostly webs of images, the strange undeniably dreamlike phantasms of a grey era. rocks as pets...underwear you ate...rings that told you how you felt. i must have been asleep then."
"lonliness. i thought i was going to be permanantly warped by lonliness, like a record being scraped by a screwdriver. that's the most frightening aspect of lonliness, tyler. you think you're being damaged while lonliness is happening to you, and the worry amplifies the pain."
when i read this i remember thinking how it captured the spirit of my generation to a tee.
"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 before regan i remember little fleeting, ghostly webs of images, the strange undeniably dreamlike phantasms of a grey era. rocks as pets...underwear you ate...rings that told you how you felt. i must have been asleep then."
"lonliness. i thought i was going to be permanantly warped by lonliness, like a record being scraped by a screwdriver. that's the most frightening aspect of lonliness, tyler. you think you're being damaged while lonliness is happening to you, and the worry amplifies the pain."
when i read this i remember thinking how it captured the spirit of my generation to a tee.
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