Shampoo Planet
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by jblueafterglow from Coquitlam, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Hey! This is not the correct cover art.. The correct cover art used to be shown, but apparently it got changed.. Why??? This has happened to other books on my shelf.. Transformed from correct to incorrect.. How do I make this injustice stop??
From the Publisher
Tyler Johnson is a twenty-year-old MTV child. Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he now sells fake Chanel T-shirts, collects shampoo and studies hotel/motel management in a small northwest city saddled with a dying mega-mall and a collapsed nuclear industry. An ambitious Reagan Youth, Tyler dreams of escape and a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.Tyler's soon-to-be-single mother is the fortysomething Jasmine, a "hippie chick" with a Woodstock heart full of love--but also full of confusion because her 1960s dream has turned sour. Burdened with two failed marriages, three kids at home, and job layoffs, Jasmine wonders if the 1960s dream alone can protect her from the 1990s. Shampoo Planet's six month chronicle of Tyler's life takes us from his Washington State hometown to the ongoing party beside Jim Morrison's Paris grave, to a wild island in British Columbia, to the freak-filled redwood forests of northern California, to a cheesy Hollywood, to ultramodern Seattle, and then back home. On the way we meet a constellation of other characters: Anna-Louise, Tyler's post-feminist girlfriend with an eating disorder; Neil, Tyler's Deadhead dope-ranching biological father; Daisy, his neo-hippie sister; Murray, her dreadlocked boyfriend; and Harmony, a rich computer hacker with a fetish for Star Trek and the medieval.
---> barnesandnoble.com
I am a big fan of Douglas Coupland. This is a great book, but he has better ones... (Hey Nostradamus!, Life After God, and Polaroids from the Dead are my favorites...)
From the Publisher
Tyler Johnson is a twenty-year-old MTV child. Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he now sells fake Chanel T-shirts, collects shampoo and studies hotel/motel management in a small northwest city saddled with a dying mega-mall and a collapsed nuclear industry. An ambitious Reagan Youth, Tyler dreams of escape and a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.Tyler's soon-to-be-single mother is the fortysomething Jasmine, a "hippie chick" with a Woodstock heart full of love--but also full of confusion because her 1960s dream has turned sour. Burdened with two failed marriages, three kids at home, and job layoffs, Jasmine wonders if the 1960s dream alone can protect her from the 1990s. Shampoo Planet's six month chronicle of Tyler's life takes us from his Washington State hometown to the ongoing party beside Jim Morrison's Paris grave, to a wild island in British Columbia, to the freak-filled redwood forests of northern California, to a cheesy Hollywood, to ultramodern Seattle, and then back home. On the way we meet a constellation of other characters: Anna-Louise, Tyler's post-feminist girlfriend with an eating disorder; Neil, Tyler's Deadhead dope-ranching biological father; Daisy, his neo-hippie sister; Murray, her dreadlocked boyfriend; and Harmony, a rich computer hacker with a fetish for Star Trek and the medieval.
---> barnesandnoble.com
I am a big fan of Douglas Coupland. This is a great book, but he has better ones... (Hey Nostradamus!, Life After God, and Polaroids from the Dead are my favorites...)
Journal Entry 2 by jblueafterglow at Westender box (see release notes for details) in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, September 3, 2003
Released on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 at Westender box, Broadway and Blenheim in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
I like it on top! Inside the box is too dark...
I like it on top! Inside the box is too dark...
I found this book on a paper box and when I noticed it from a short distance I felt a tingle. I KNEW it was a bookcrossings book. I have not yet read it but am excited to be a recipient. I have released one book myself, ("The Little Prince") and didn't follow up on it's activities. I will write again when I've read Shampoo Planet and re-release it. Thanks!
Edaon
CAUGHT IN VANCOUVER BC CANADA
Edaon
CAUGHT IN VANCOUVER BC CANADA
Well Finally releasing the book back into the wild after having it too long. I never even read it. Douglas Copeland is not my cup of tea. I am not a Gen
X-er even though I am in that age range. That's okay. Off to some other lucky reader. I will release it today, most likely on the bus.
edaon
CAUGHT IN VANCOUVER BC CANADA
X-er even though I am in that age range. That's okay. Off to some other lucky reader. I will release it today, most likely on the bus.
edaon
CAUGHT IN VANCOUVER BC CANADA
