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Cargando... Shampoo Planet (1992)por Douglas Coupland
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found it very difficult to relate to the protagonist of this, Coupland's second novel. He leaves his dying town in the desert region of Washington State for a summer of rail travel round Europe and cheats on his girlfriend. He returns to Terminaldeclineville (I fail to remember the name Coupland actually uses) and pretends nothing happened. He bemoans the lack of ambition of just about everybody but drops out of college. When Coupland talks about the USA I recognise the place. In this book he describes a Europe I've never been to, despite living in Brussels. Coupland writes in the first person most of the time but his unique imagery, ubiquitous in his novels, makes this character seem like a clone of one of his other characters that suffered a lot of gene damage and didn't come out as a Asperger's Syndrome experiencing computer geek border-line genius - instead as a hotel manager wannabe! So the protagonist is dull, dim, immoral and drifting through life - then the French Girl arrives. She's so unpleasant even our protagonist doesn't deserve her, but she takes charge of his life, until an unbelievable ending resolves matters. (Think fairy God-mother.) For me this book was a complete failure, which was unexpected - I've read five other Coupland novels and always got something worthwhile out of them. This was the fourth of his book that I've read. It was good, although as I find with some of his work it takes a few chapters to get into. His way of speaking in his books is a little...not pretentious, but something along those lines. But I do love his stuff, for his ideas about the world, society & the future. He's a very intelligent author, & I have two more of his books at home to read, & at least two which I've not yet bought. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
En una ciudad que es un vertedero nuclear y donde hasta el centro comercial ha tenido que cerrar sus puertas, Tyler planea la vida que quiere llegar a tener: quiere ser rico, asquerosamente rico. Y eso es muy dificil. Rodeado por su madre, una hippy que se quedo en los sesenta; su hermana, que no acaba de encontrar su norte; y su novia, que carece de objetivos tanto como el, Tyler vive una realidad tan distorsionada que solo le preocupa saber que tipo de champu debe utilizar diariamente. O cual va a ser el siguiente aparato que podra comprar para su ultramoderna habitacion, gracias a la venta de productos de marca falsificados. O no caer en ninguno de los vicios de los pobres, como fumar. Y es que Tyler huye de la trascendencia como de la muerte. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The novel follows Tyler's journey to a realization that happiness lies elsewhere, that happiness isn't about STUFF. But, to me, his character was so off-putting--so unrelatable--that I never particularly cared about his trajectory. ( )