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Summary: A must-read dark comedy!!
Review: Sellevision is a terrific dark comedy. The characters are great, the book well-written. You will laugh out loud. I wish there had been more of it. I couldn't get enough of the characters and their antics. If you like Carl Hiassen or Douglas Coupland, I think you will also enjoy Sellevision.
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Summary: A Good Quick Read
Review: What a riot! This book is my introduction to Augusten Burroughs, and it certainly won't be the last of his that I read. If you're looking for something light that entertains but doesn't demand a lot of you, Sellevision is the way to go. It's constantly funny and easy to read in just one sitting.
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Summary: What book are these people reviewing?
Review: I wanted to like this book. I really did. I mean, it makes fundamentalist christians look like the complete and utter fools and hypocrites that they are, so that's got to be good, right? But my god, there's not one memorable character, not one unpredictable plot twist, not one line that doesn't feel like it wasn't crafted on the assembly line in the 'funny novel' factory. I read the whole thing over the course of three twenty minute train rides to and from work, and three seconds after putting it down, I couldn't tell you one remarkable aspect of any character, or one clever turn of phrase that stuck with me. Augusten Burroughs had best stick to memoirs.
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Summary: Witty with a sarcastic bite!
Review: Augusten Burroughs displays his biting wit and a tinge of bitter sarcasm in his novel "Sellevision." Like "Soapdish" of the television shop-at-home crowd, all of the real action takes place in the private lives of its screen stars. Following the antics of several "home shopping network"-style television personalities, Burroughs again thrills with his humor and insight, proving that he is an author to watch!
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Summary: Hilarious From Beginning to End
Review: I am a huge fan of David Sedaris and when I began this book I anticipated a similiar style of humor and I was not disappointed. The dialogue is funny, the plot is funny, and the inside look at home shopping networks is a true riot. The ending is just as good as the beginning and it makes you want to read more and more from Augusten Burroughs. This is my first novel by this author and I look forward to reading the rest of his novels after this one.
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Summary: Wonderfully Wicked, Yet Entertaining Throughout
Review: If you're a fan of Augusten Burroughs, as I am, you know that he has the knack for taking sarcasm and realism and combining a firework of reading! "Sellevision" is not any different. From page one, you get a sexy, seductive and sinister drama revolving around television live broadcast "buy me" shows, yet in the form of a soap opera. Whether you've read Burrough's work before and are looking for more or you're just peeking into this book to see if you it may please you, the book is highly recommended to add to anyone's library.
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Summary: INTERESTING SATIRE ON HOME SHOPPING NETWORKS
Review: If there ever was a gleefully mean-spirited book, this is it. It explores commercial avarice and obsession with sham celebrity in the world of a fictional home shopping network. Welcome to the troubled world of "Sellevision", America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome (lonely and gay) host of Slumber Sunday Sundown accidentally exposes himself in front of sixty million kids and their parents during a "Toys for Tots" segment, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max fails to find a job in television, another host, the popular and perky Peggy Jean Smythe, is receiving sinister emails about her appearance from a stalker. Popping pills and drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband is spending a lot of time with the very young babysitter who lives next door. Then there's Leigh, whose affair with Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going nowhere, until she exposes him on air; and Bebe, Sellevision's star host, who finds Mr. Right through the Internet ? if she can just stop her shopping addiction from taking over. It is not merely the dysfunctional family of anchors that is subject to the author's satire, but perhaps the whole primping 15-minute culture of television as we know it in our world. Truly hilarious, and a fast paced read. If this book's laconic humor works for you, try "Running with Scissors" as well, which is clearly an ever more mature and twice as hilarious Burroughs in top form.
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Summary: Sellevision has my call.
Review: I don't usually read this type of book, but this was one I couldn't put down. A real page-turner. It has my vote.
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Summary: You've got to read this!
Review: Hysterical, inventive and extremely well-written. Augusten Burroughs is a true talent. The plots within this story are so clever and so well-constructed. Read this book! And when you're finished, read "Running With Scissors". I'm awaiting his future books with great anticipation!
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Summary: I feel let down...
Review: I was dissappointed with the lack of character development. I am angry that I spent seven dollars on this book. It has promise, but that's it.
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