Syrup
Twenty-three-year-old marketing graduate Scat (n? Michael) is in search of the American dream of wealth, fame, friendship with movie stars, and true love. He thinks he just may have it all in sight when he comes up with a brilliant idea for a new soft drink, Fukk Cola, and the beautiful new-products manager at Coke, the improbably named 6, agrees that it has definite possibilities. Unfortunately, Sneaky Pete, Scat's roommate, lives up to his name and steals Fukk in order to get a head start up the corporate ladder. Many connivances and contrivances later, 6 and Scat take on Sneaky Pete and his assistant @ directly in a last-ditch struggle to assume ascendancy at Coke. Will 6 and Scat fall in love? Will they succeed in vanquishing Sneaky Pete? With Winona Ryder, Brad Pitt, and Tom Cruise making cameo appearances and Gwyneth Paltrow acting as deus ex machina, how could dreams not come true? Never as hilarious as the author intended, this first novel remains a moderately humorous riff on advertising and corporate life. - Library Journal
Comments
Hilarious book! I gotta get my hands on a can of white Coke!
Real page turner, great satire, cheezy ending.
It comes in cans! Mine always comes in little baggies.
Improbably named, indeed.
is it just me or did the whole novel seem cheezy? Granted i did read the book as fast as i could. But, for me there were too many "monkey wrenches" thrown in at the last minute for it to be beleivable. Entertaining, sure. Great or even recommended, i wouldn't go that far.