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Dying to Be Famous
Dying To Be Famous' is a shocking and darkly hilarious journey to the shady side of celebrity that's not for the weak of heart or easily offended. Featuring murder, sex scandals, violence, blackmail, abusive producers, money and glamour, it will change the way you view celebrity culture forever!
Celebrities have secrets. Meet the man who knows them all and will do anything to keep them quiet. Even murder.
Andrew Manning has spent 20 years saving celebrities from the consequences of their own bad behaviour and is known in the business as’ The King of Scandal’. But now some particularly difficult and demanding characters are about strain even his legendary abilities:
Shelley, model and fashion icon, who's determined not just to blackmail her equally famous husband but also to utterly destroy him.
Joey, an insecure reality TV star, desperate to hang on to his celebrity, even if it means slowly poisoning himself to death.
The Producer, a king in the world of entertainment and a serial abuser of hopeful young wannabe’s. But this time he's picked the wrong girl for his perverted pleasures.
Charlie, morbidly obese, murderous mafiosi adviser to...
Janey, pop music goddess, a celebrity with peculiarly sharp teeth and disturbing eating habits that are about to be revealed to the public by an ambitious young paparazzo.
And then there's Johnny, Andrew's partner, a psychopath with a heart of gold who's on a mission to murder as many celebrities as possible.
333 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2019
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July 21, 2019
Well, here’s another piece of total twonk to add to my “OMG Bad” shelf. In fact, this is right up there among the worst, most vile books I’ve ever managed to work through—and work it was. Not only has the author over-reached in an attempt to shock the reader, he has done so with myriad mistakes in continuity, grammar, spelling and punctuation, not to mention a plethora of horribly bleak and misguided attempts at humor.
The book details the lives of British celebrities as they intersect with Andrew, a celebrity “fixer”. Screw young girls (or boys) and get caught? Andy has a solution for that. Call the Queen a “rancid old cunt”? Andy can get you off of the hot seat. Find you want to liquify fetuses and drink them to help you hide any signs of aging? Andy can keep your supply chain wide open. Each scenario presented is more disgusting than the last, as Andy and his murderous lover Johnny flit from setting to setting, protecting the reputations of clients whilst reigning hellfire and brimstone on everyone else in their path.
If the plot lines don’t confound, or at the very least nauseate, you, perhaps the language will. The word “cunt” is used as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Cunt, cunty, cunting and cuntola just scratch the surface. It’s like the author possessed a very thin thesaurus that stopped at the letter “c”. After awhile I found myself substituting my own words in place of the cuntfest just to mix things up. Equally as tiring was the author’s vast use of synonyms for gay men and women. Turd-burglar, shirt-lifter, dyke, bum bandit, faggot, gay wanker, shit-stabber...and the list goes on and on, one more offensive than the last. As the narrator is gay, however, the reader is somehow expected to find it all hilarious and forgivable.
Finally, lest you believe there is some inherent value in the writing itself, allow me to completely disavow that notion. This is an absolute nightmare in terms of asinine mistakes. A single character is at once referred to as both Jack Brierley and Jack Rigby, ping ponging from one identity to the other with nary an explanation other than piss poor editing. Articles are routinely absent, as if the author is getting charged by the word and had to eliminate a few to come in under budget, and comma splices and run on sentences are common as muck. It is an English teacher’s worst nightmare, surpassed only by the nightmare experienced by decent writers who have been unable to find legitimate publishing and are forced to acknowledge that trash like this gets front page billing on Amazon.
If you’re considering purchasing this, please, for the love of all things holy, reconsider. Support an author who deserves it.
The book details the lives of British celebrities as they intersect with Andrew, a celebrity “fixer”. Screw young girls (or boys) and get caught? Andy has a solution for that. Call the Queen a “rancid old cunt”? Andy can get you off of the hot seat. Find you want to liquify fetuses and drink them to help you hide any signs of aging? Andy can keep your supply chain wide open. Each scenario presented is more disgusting than the last, as Andy and his murderous lover Johnny flit from setting to setting, protecting the reputations of clients whilst reigning hellfire and brimstone on everyone else in their path.
If the plot lines don’t confound, or at the very least nauseate, you, perhaps the language will. The word “cunt” is used as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Cunt, cunty, cunting and cuntola just scratch the surface. It’s like the author possessed a very thin thesaurus that stopped at the letter “c”. After awhile I found myself substituting my own words in place of the cuntfest just to mix things up. Equally as tiring was the author’s vast use of synonyms for gay men and women. Turd-burglar, shirt-lifter, dyke, bum bandit, faggot, gay wanker, shit-stabber...and the list goes on and on, one more offensive than the last. As the narrator is gay, however, the reader is somehow expected to find it all hilarious and forgivable.
Finally, lest you believe there is some inherent value in the writing itself, allow me to completely disavow that notion. This is an absolute nightmare in terms of asinine mistakes. A single character is at once referred to as both Jack Brierley and Jack Rigby, ping ponging from one identity to the other with nary an explanation other than piss poor editing. Articles are routinely absent, as if the author is getting charged by the word and had to eliminate a few to come in under budget, and comma splices and run on sentences are common as muck. It is an English teacher’s worst nightmare, surpassed only by the nightmare experienced by decent writers who have been unable to find legitimate publishing and are forced to acknowledge that trash like this gets front page billing on Amazon.
If you’re considering purchasing this, please, for the love of all things holy, reconsider. Support an author who deserves it.
January 31, 2019
Wow!!..while I found the book to be quite funny and a bit out there I had many laughs and if you don't have a outlandish since of humor this book would not be for you! But I happen to have that type of since..he-he. I would recommend this book to everyone that is looking to be kept up all night just to see who gets offed..if you know what I mean. Great flow and page turning are my type of reads. Hooked from get go..but again if you don't have a since of outlandish humor..well you just wont get it
September 5, 2022
Poorly written. Tries too hard to be edgy and witty. Too heavy with the "celebrity life isn't what it seems" message. Multiple mistakes including messing up his own characters name. Unnecessary rape and abuse scenes.
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