Camel Review #1

So over the trip to San Diego I digested an entire book: Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland. And I felt inclined to share my literary accomplishment by writing a review. Since I'm no journalist, this will probably suck, but hey, don't read it.

This book, like most of Coupland's work, sounded vaguely uninteresting when I read the back, but as always, when I actually forayed into the book, I finished with a contented sigh. Filled with incredibly colorful and creative imagery such as "The sky is a nutritious deep electronic blue today", the book tells the story of Tyler, a twenty-something who likes his hair to look good and who lives in classic middle-class squalor. The book details his relationships with his girlfriends, family, friends, and related losers after he returns from a six month bounce around Europe and crescendoes with Coupland's classic enlightening and tragic event. I loved it. Read it. It's great despite the fact that you feel the 80's happening.