{"id":3232,"date":"2013-09-03T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2013-09-03T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:31:00","slug":"shampoo-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/shampoo-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Shampoo Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If you ever have a free moment, you might consider checking out the travel brochures for the town in which you live. You might be amazed. You might not want to live there any more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler is obsessed with hair care products and is hoping to get a great job and make lots of money after school. He has a girlfriend, Anne-Louise, but he had a top-secret relationship with Stephanie when he was on vacation in Europe. He calls his mom by her first name, Jasmine, but she&#8217;s going through a divorce so he&#8217;s trying to be nice to her. Then Stephanie shows up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shampoo Planet<\/strong> by Douglas Coupland was published in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it a lot. Coupland is a keen observer of the human condition, and is able to write about it in a very readable way. It&#8217;s not laugh-out-loud funny, but it&#8217;s wryly humorous.<\/p>\n<p>The plot consists of normal everyday things, occasionally bordering on the absurd. Coupland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/we-live-in-a-post-era-era\/\">use of language<\/a> is unique. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.&#8221; Marge is Anna-Louise&#8217;s word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge.<\/li>\n<li>In the alcove downstairs there are stalagmites of unforwarded mail.<\/li>\n<li>The sun shone hot and tanning salonlike over the city&#8217;s shortbread-yellow buildings, its Gypsies, its smug Euroyuppies, its exhaust fumes, and its decaying ambulance vibratos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read Coupland&#8217;s <strong>Generation X<\/strong> some number of years ago and loved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If you ever have a free moment, you might consider checking out the travel brochures for the town in which you live. You might be amazed. You might not want to live there any more.&#8221; Tyler is obsessed with hair care products and is hoping to get a great job and make lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,36,28,5],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fiction","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}