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Douglas Coupland
Shampoo Planet
Simon & Schuster, 1993
Cover art & design by John Gall (design), Sigrid Estrada (photo), Syd Brak (shampoo effects)
299 pages
Book bought in New York
Douglas Coupland, armed with that secret weapon of his - a knack for capturing the nineties Zeitgeist - offers an analytical satire entitled "Shampoo Planet".
Tyler Johnson is everything his hippie mother Jasmine isn't. Tyler appreciates consumerism, is in awe of snazzy technology and cannot possibly miss out on any brand of shampoo - or other hair care products for that matter. He thinks he knows exactly what he wants: a dreamjob working for the company responsible for his very favourite hair care products. Add having a sweet girlfriend by his side (Anna-Louise) to that, and Tyler feels he's set after he graduates with his motel-hotel degree in his pocket.
But Tyler decides, in between all this, to hop over to Europe and have some fun and when he returns home, have everything go as |
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Kindle Review. This is a Reviews Alert for the Amazon Kindle Ebook Reader. The Kindle is an electronic book reader thats about the size of a trade paperback book. Its primarily designed to enable you to get some of those ebooks off your dusty old hard drive and take them with you as you go to work, travel or relax on the beach. Kindle: Amazons New Wireless Reading Device Said by some early adopters to be the iPod of ebook readers, the Kindle created by Amazon has a new revolutionary elect
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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At first sight a harsh tale of loss and despair. At the end, a poignant epic of human courage and hope. It is easy to see why Steinbeck had been called a communist at the time of publishing.
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Steinbeck explores every facet of human emotions ranging from despair to courage in the face of impossible odds. The Joad family, like countless other sharecropper, lose their Oklahoma cotton farm and are forced off the land by the Bank after being unable to repay their loans during the Great Depression years. Drought, coupled with mechanization of agriculture make the Joads hardwork obsolete and they have to move away from the land that their forefathers had secured through blood and sweat.
Scraping together enough money to buy a second hand truck, the family of twelve head for Californias Central Valley in search of livelihood, taking along an eccentric friend the preacher, Jim Casey.
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What was to be an uneventful, researched-filled time turned into sleepless nights, midnight riders, deaths, attempted deaths, and gigantic apparitions that happen to bethe butler! When I picked up the The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb, I expected to read about King Arthur or Arthur the Pendragon and his adventures. Needless to say, I was surprised when this book was nothing about the famous ...
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Book Review: Staging a Comeback: Revival for Women Over 45 by Christopher Hopkins -- The Makeover Guy (of Oprah-fame ). Although this book was primarily written for women over 45, there were so many things I wish I had known when I was 25. Although his transformative makeovers were of women belonging to the baby boomer generation, there is a plethora of information on fashion, makeup, personal
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