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Shampoo Planet (Paperback)

by Douglas Coupland (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; New edition edition (1 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743231538
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743231534
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 192,874 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Coupland's funny, spot-on portrait of the death of the yuppie. Tyler Johnson is an apocalyptic entrepreneur in the making. His memories begin with Ronald Reagan. With his neat girlfriend, smart jokes and shampoo collection, he works at the nuclear power plant where his hippie parents used to demonstrate, plotting his fortune. But fortune has other plans - the return of a Paris summer fling, one of the 'low-ambition Euro-teens', who takes Tyler on the road to the shimmering dreams of L.A.


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Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian NATO base in Beden-Sollingen, (West) Germany on December 30, 1961. He is the author of bestselling fiction, including GENERATION X, LIFE AFTER GOD, POLAROIDS FROM THE DEAD, MICROSERFS, GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA and ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Something for the weekend, 1 Jun 2001
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I read Coupland's other books before this one and approached this one almost expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't. It's obviously not his best but here Coupland has created a deliciously simple story centering around the tales protaganist, Tyler, and his not overly turbulent transition from unaffected youth to relatively unaffected early adulthood. In this one you will find typically cool Coupland dialogue, but it is more naive and, dare I say, even more zeitgeisy than gen x. The characters are younger and the novel serves to illustrate the differences in 60's peace and love and the 80's consumer mentality. His novels are never pessimistic, and the characters are far from the empty, disaffected, mixed up drones of say Easton Ellis. There is chaos, there is confusion but at the last page you are left with nothing but unbridled hope and the sweet taste of optimism.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good but no great shakes, 24 Jun 2006
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I'm a big Douglas Coupland fan, this being his 8th book that I've read.

For some reason this one left me a bit cold. It's still witty, very well observed and wry, but all the others have managed to hook me in emotionally some how. This one didn't. The character of Stephanie seemed very forced and I never really believed in her 100%. Maybe he was trying too hard after the phenomenon that was Generation X?

It's not awful though. If you're a Coupland fan and like me will read all his work whatever the reviews then you're probably going to be slightly disappointed. If you're thinking of 'getting into him' I'd start with Gen X, Girlfriend in a Coma, Microserfs or Hey Nostradamus - all of which blew me away for different reasons.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Looks like Generation X, but it's not, 27 April 2003
When I saw the cover of this book I thought that I was in for a similar treat as with Generation X and Microserfs. It seems to sell it that way. But it came up short in comparison to those other two gems- ignore THEM at your peril.

It seems as though Coupland has used this as a warm up exercise: a gentle stretch of the observation and humour muscles, saving the heavy exercise for other novels.

Don't get me wrong, it's ok, but I guess like every person who produces works of brilliance such as Coupland has, you can be overly disappinted when you get something that is simply good. So my final advice would be, read this, but read Microserfs or Generation X first.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wash, rinse, repeat, dry.
I just finished reading this book, and what I can say is that it has a definite feel of a journey about it- one feels like they have travelled with the character, perhaps not... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Ryan J. Fitch

1.0 out of 5 stars Shampoo Planet
I'm afraid I didn't enjoy this book at all - I couldn't believe in any of the characters (and therefore didn't care what happened to them). Read more
Published 21 months ago by gerty guinea

2.0 out of 5 stars No great shakes
The sort of magazine-ish writing that passes the time enjoyably on the train to work, but is really too slight to be taken seriously.
Published 22 months ago by Nt Deregowski

5.0 out of 5 stars Forgetting something behind you is not quite the same as throwing it away...
Have you ever felt an adrenlin rush at the inevitable prospect of your (unrequited) love walking through the door? Read more
Published on 17 May 2007 by Deanne Dixon

3.0 out of 5 stars Take it or leave it
While this was very readable, with some astute observations on the trade-marked consumer culture of a branded generation, it was pretty lightweight. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2006 by Green Pixie

4.0 out of 5 stars Wash it clean
Douglas Coupland made his biggest mark on literature with "Generation X," a witty satire on the jaded "Gen-Xers. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2005 by E. A Solinas

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy, enjoyable, definitely worth a look.
Not Coupland's best work but certainly enjoyable from start to finish, with some moments of utter beauty that are difficult to describe. Read more
Published on 1 Jul 2002 by alexdb

3.0 out of 5 stars Couplands worsed
Just read Coupland's second, Shampoo planet. Hmmm ... No-where near as good as his other offerings. He seems to be stuck between trying to write 'a story' a-la Microserfs, miss... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2001 by Robert

4.0 out of 5 stars Coupland does Europe
This novel covers a subject that is only touched on in his other books - Ambition. As the characters in his other novels wallow in the misery of a futureless society and... Read more
Published on 13 April 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars To cool to be 4-gotten
Shampoo planet is probably Couplands least famous novel. A fact that still remains a mystery. Sure it lacks some of those dialogs that made his Generation X into a 90's version... Read more
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