Shampoo Planet (1992)
Instead describing lives of "twenty-somethings" Shampoo Planet focuses on the teenagers of 1990s. Tyler Johnson, the protagonist of the story, is trying to decide between his will to become part of normal corporate life and his responsability to save and make the world better place.
Shampoo Planet Quotes:
"Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships"
"You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries"
Reviews of Shampoo Planet:
From books in Canada They liked a lot more Coupland's second book than the first one.
Ed's Internet Book Review Contains an interesting comparison between Douglas Coupland and Kurt Vonnegut.
Eye Weekly's (Toronto's arts newspaper) review Didn't realize before, that anyone could take it so seriously.
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