Book review
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riontelJust finished reading "Dead Famous" by Ben Elton. Highly recommend. Very funny (Hmmm... Do I ever recommend anything that's not funny?.. Do I ever read anything that's not funny?.. Oh! I know. "Harry Potter" is hardly ever funny at all lately. Phew. Now I feel a lot better about my reading tastes.) Anyhow, like I said, it's funny, and clever, and well written. The genre could be called a murder mystery, I guess, since there is a murder, and an investigation, obviously, but it's also a highly amusing look into the TV industry and, more specifically, a hilarious behind the scenes look at the so popular reality TV (is it still popular?). Show described goes along the lines of the Big Brother. I think. I am a bit stretching my pop culture knowledge here. It's the one with people stuck in the same house and getting evicted one by one, in case I got the name wrong. The book is also pocking great fun at the today's hip, young, new-age crowd to which I apparently do not belong since I was totally identifying with a character described as "fifty going on seventy". That was somewhat scary :)
Not sure about the book's value as a murder mystery, not that it was the point of the book anyway. I guessed the culprit along with the motive few pages in. But not how it was done. However, there was more than enough suspense for my taste and as a rule I don't even like murder mysteries.
Oh, and it was written by a Brit, so expect funny spelling, British slang, and loads of obscenities, too. All in good fun :)
Not sure about the book's value as a murder mystery, not that it was the point of the book anyway. I guessed the culprit along with the motive few pages in. But not how it was done. However, there was more than enough suspense for my taste and as a rule I don't even like murder mysteries.
Oh, and it was written by a Brit, so expect funny spelling, British slang, and loads of obscenities, too. All in good fun :)
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Millе Grazie!
Date: 2005-11-12 09:53 pm (UTC)Кстати, о весёлых книжках. Вы не читали "Ногти" Михаила Елизарова? Там очень душещипательная история про шамана Бахытова и гения-горбуна Глостера...Очень задушевно написано.. Есть в нём нечто хармсовское...
Вот ссылка -- http://www.guelman.ru/slava/texts/elizarov.htm
Re: Millе Grazie!
Date: 2005-11-13 08:19 pm (UTC)А еще меня можно на ты называть :)
Re: Millе Grazie!
Date: 2005-11-14 05:00 pm (UTC)http://biblio-techka.megalit.ru/elizarov_plenka/
Извиняюсь, "Красная лента"(-)
Date: 2005-11-14 05:02 pm (UTC)