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Summary: Quick and tawdry
Review: I read this book in about 4 hours (and I'm not one to whip through books) - it's perfect for someone on the market for a naughty, superficial read. Entertaining in a mean-spirited way, the author makes light of spirituality, alcoholism and therapy which is sure to offend many readers. Loaded with cliches, and pages you'll find so over-trodden you'll want to skip over them (and probably will) - however the fast pace and many intertwining story lines gives the book a guilty pleasure appeal perfect for fans of Ricky Lake, Anna Nicole Smith, and Howard Stern.
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Summary: A wickedly fun "hoot" of a book!!!
Review: I was trying to find some fun paperbacks and I started looking at reviews here. I stumbled upon this one. Within a few hours of receiving it I was finished. It was funny, irreverent and the characters were so vivid and the ending cracked me up! If you are looking for a funny, fastpaced book--look no further!
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Summary: They should sell this book on the Home Shopping Network!
Review: Funny, funny, funny! I first read Running with Scissors and then picked up Sellevision. The book is a hoot all the way throught. It's a light read, but engaging and entertaining. I bought two more copies to give as Xmas gifts!
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Summary: Like potato chips...
Review: This is just a great read and a fun time. Like that bag of potato chips sitting somewhere in your life, it's a yummy, guilty, salty and fatty (only a bit) pleasure and just a blast. The characters are interesting and hilarious. I read this in a day.
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Summary: I need more Augusten Burroughs Books
Review: Never having heard of Augusten Burroughs until my sister sent me the Washington Post review of "Running With Scissors", I didn't know what I was missing. Now I do and I want more. I read "Running With Scissors" then went back and read this book. I seldom read novels but real or imagined, Burroughs' characters are as remarkable as the situations in which they find themselves He seems to really love his wild assortment of human beings and to appreciate their plight. No preaching, no redeeming social value, not really even a story, just a bunch of everyday oddballs you miss as soon as you finish his books. I really like Augusten Burroughs and am happy to say I've had a few friends who closely resemble him.
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Summary: Home Shopping in the Absurd
Review: Oh, what wryly wicked fun! What Jane Smiley's *Moo* did to State Agricultural Colleges, Augusten Burroughs does to home shopping television, the cast and crew and their friends and relatives of the fictional (?) Sellevision Home Shopping Channel. With Special Guest Appearances by Debbie Boone, Barbra Streisand, Kathy Bates, Joyce DeWitt and others. And Stuff You Never Knew You Couldn't Live Without, like RemoteControLotion: a universal remote control unit that not only operates most televisions, VCRs, and stereo systems, but also dispenses moisturizing hand lotion through tiny pores on each of the buttons!Can you relate? There's a Sellevision Shop-aholic host whose shock at her AmEx bill drives her to Amazon.com to look for a book to help curb her addiction. She finds eight and clicks them all, "along with a book about investing in Chinese artifacts. She logged off feeling tremendous relief." If laughter is the best medicine, this book *is* relief.
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Summary: Close, but no cigar...
Review: QVC is one of my guilty pleasures so when I came across this book and read some of the reviews posted, I couldn't wait to read it. Unfortunately, for me, it did not live up to the hype of the 5 star posts.
It's definitely a light, breezy read, and it was laugh out loud funny in couple of places. At best, I would sum it up as mildly amusing.
The author definitely demonstrates potential and I'm looking forward to reading his current bestseller, "Running With Scissors". If that book has the depth that is lacking in "Sellevision", I'm sure I will enjoy it. I hope that the author's obvious wit, coupled with his real-life experiences, will give his current book the continuous laugh-out-loud quality I was hoping to find in "Sellevision".
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Summary: Nathanael West's cable TV heir
Review: From the first line, I knew I was going to have a great time reading this. I had already read Running with Scissors, and so I had to read this book as well. One thing I didn't expect, however, was to be truly moved by one of the characters' journeys. So about 3/4 the way in, I had gone from laughing to getting a tear in my eye. This fellow has quite a talent for the ridiculous and the absurd.
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Summary: Absolutely riotous
Review: The lives and foibles of various stars at the home shopping channel Sellevision are the subjects of this hilarious novel. Max gets fired after accidentally exposing himself on live television, and in the ensuing scandal he hunts for a job, any job, that will hire him, or at least if he could find a supportive boyfriend that would work instead. Leigh is having an affair with a married Sellevision executive who keeps promising to leave his wife, but it seems like he never will. Bebe is one of the most popular hosts at Sellevision, and she has a spending problem, to say it subtly. And Peggy Jean is receiving disturbing and threatening emails from a fan, or is it actually from someone she knows? Skewering the home shopping phenomenon, "Sellevision" is so darkly comical as it chronicles the zany lives of these characters and more.
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Summary: Zany--an absolute hoot! When is the movie coming out?
Review: This book had me laughing out loud from the very first sentence to the very last....and the last sentence is hysterical! The characters in this book are not the deepest folk you'll find in literature, but they are definitely resilient! They each land on their feet no matter how many hits they take. Another reviewer said they fit right in to the real-life mold of television shopping on-air hosts, but I've gotta say, I work pretty far from the showbiz world, and I know people just like this too! I only wish the book had gone on longer than it did. This book would make a hilarious movie!
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