false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188216586m/1779547.jpg 1779547 5 <I>With One Lousy Packet of Seed</I> is Lynne Truss's splendidly malicious novel about contemporary celebrity journalism and its intrusiveness. Much of the plot has to do with the attempt to find something new to say about garden sheds by Osborne, a writer who has done so many profiles that famous people have started to blend into each other in his mind--Truss is often at her funniest when her characters get closest to being entirely deranged. Osborne is one of the regular contributors to a small gardening magazine on its last legs--<I>Come into the Garden</I> has a staff almost entirely made up of obsessives of one kind or another, and Truss gets to settle a lot of personal scores with sub-editors and researchers.<p> Much of the book is also a vicious but genteel hatchet-job on the cosy British crime thriller's casual snobbery--the escalation of mistaken identities and occasional violence heads off into the darkest of dark comedy. Truss is also capable of being charmingly erotic and rather touching--<I>With One Lousy Packet of Seed</I> has a satirical edge and a humane side that balance it neatly. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I> 31966 1994 With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed total:12|5:3|4:7|3:1|1:1| 12 47 27 7 4 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:55:07 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:59:08 -0700 2009
I listened to an audio book; the British narrator was great (except that his American characters sounded more like Australians).

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