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    <body><![CDATA[Dear P has to read this for school - he has read the first chapter and is not impressed at all. It does seem a rather obscure choice. So I am reading it for him...<br/><br/><strong>On the morning after the night it happened, Bruce Delamitri was sitting in a police interview room.</strong><br/><br/>Characters:<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76380381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overheated send-up of Quentin Tarantino &amp; the Hollywood subculture that spawned him. Imagine if the 2 main characters from Natural Born Killers took QT hostage in his house in the hollywood hills on the night he won his Oscar. It sounds more promising than it plays out.Not nearly enough swipes at su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20014753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up on holiday as I finished the book I took away with me. I had never read any Ben Elton and thought I would give him a try. I have mixed feeling and about this book. For the first time in my life I read a book from cover to cover in a week. I could not put it down and took it everywhere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69411492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28718769">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Plot Summary:<br/>Satire of an American / Pop Idol type show from auditions to the final show. As a result of a bet, the show's Svengali (who bears more than a passing resemblance to Simon Cowell) agrees to try to engineer a win for none other than the Prince of Wales.<br/><br/>The characters rep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28718769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Popcorn (1996) van Ben Elton (Thin Blue Line, Blackadder,  The Young Ones, etc). De laaiend enthousiaste quotes in en over het boek hebben het over Popcorn als mengvorm van komedie, thriller en moreel debat, en dat is ook wat Elton beoogd had. Net als de meeste van z’n andere romans gaat het om ee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13803847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic Ben Elton story. He has such a canny knack of picking a topic of the time and writing a hard hitting story around it. This one was about personal responsibility and the lack of it in Western society. In a way it's a bit sad that this book is 12 years old and you would hope that if Mr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40198138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave it two stars because it is a quick, easy read and somewhat amusing, but not one I'd highly recommend.  On a side note, I was mildly annoyed with some British spellings and expressions considering the main characters are all American and living in L.A.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a hilarious story of a Quentin Tarantino-esque Hollywood director, and what happens when he comes in contact with thugs who are worse than his own characters.  Excellent!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have the hardcover edition of this book, which is fantastic. One of the most brilliant pieces of satire/irony/social commentary I have ever read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best send-up of Hollywood I've yet read.  Elton is a true comic; he wrote the Blackadder series for the BBC.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Normally love Ben Elton books, but this one started to bore me a little half way through, found I was skim reading the second half of the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one I've been sitting on since the UK.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That was F***** amazing]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all of Ben Elton's books, this makes you think as well as laugh.<br/><br/>From the Back Cover<br/>Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23037832">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did not care for this book at all. Would not suggest it to anyone. Violent and vulgar. Also I had a hard time even following what was happening until halfway through the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ebenso wie &quot;Dead Famous&quot; handelt dieses Buch von Medien und damit verbunden Gewalt. Der Film, der im Buch beschrieben wird, erinnerte mich stark an &quot;Natural Born Killers&quot; und die damit verbundene Diskussion, die damals entstand. Vielleicht war dies auch der Anlass für Elton, das...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18689171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19818385">
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    <body><![CDATA[It's interesting because it talks about how film violence affects people. It's discussion on the topic put into the form of a story.<br/><br/>It's not great because it feels a bit forced and could be made more convincing.<br/><br/>I think he's getting better with making discussions on issues mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19818385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was mildly amusing, not as good as some of his other works, the theme has dated a bit - I reckon it would have been much funnier if I'd read it shortly after Tarantino movies became big. However, it is a clever satire on modern day hollywood, films and violence, and if  you're in the mood for a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9659355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just crap. This is the first book I chose based on its cover alone (big mistake. thanks, cliche.) and was inevitably disappointed. A wanna-be crime novel along the lines of Natural Born Killers, though the British Elton tries waaaaayyyy too hard on threatening-yet-cheeky dialogue for the American ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18063394">more...</a>]]></body>
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