"Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the waters, and, if we are lucky, at day's end we will have netted one -- maybe two small fish. Occasionally we will net a seahorse and sometimes a shark -- or a life preserver or an iceberg, or a monster. And in our dreams at night we assess our Catch of the Day -- the treasures of this long, slow process of accumulation -- and we eat the flesh of our fish, casting away their bones and weaving the memories of their once glinting skins into our souls." Douglas Coupland
This book reassured me that Douglas Coupland is brilliant. Shampoo Planet takes a stab at today's generation in comparison with that of previous generations. I found the book somewhat boring because Coupland spent most of the book developing well defined characters instead of storyline. And when the main character is a twenty year old male who has a very business approach to life the book can be dull at times. However, the book picks up in the middle and the ending is climatic (well climatic for this book). Even though the story is dull at times, Couplands writing is captivating and witty which makes up for the lack of storyline.
I rate this book a 5.5/10
