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Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of Sellevision takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy's hairy earlobe is obscuring her presentation of jewelry during the broadcast. When Peggy fails to respond to the e-mail, but silently waxes her lobe, the cruel notes escalate, until Peggy believes herself to be suffering from a hormonal crisis that has given her a mustache, a gruff voice, and the manner of a lumberjack. Meanwhile, one of her cohosts, Max Andrews, has been fired for accidentally exposing himself during a children's special, and learns just how undesirable a commodity a penis-baring ex-Sellevision host can be on the job market. The book is an unusually smooth read for a first novel, with six or seven truly inspired lines.

This was hilarious! What a farce! It felt a lot like I was reading an episode of the Simpsons. The jokes were presented as real situations which made them all the funnier! The humour was bang on, full of dry wit! Burroughs is one satirist that I will have to keep my eyes on!

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The M-Bag has just arrived!!!
OMG I'm so excited!
Ri thank you so much for this donation :)

(OK now I'm in danger to invent different journal entries for each book! I don't have to do that, right?)

This was quite fast and amusing read. So trashy, superficial, actually terrifying how nothing is how it “looks”. World of shopaholic zombies with an absolute lack of empathy but in the same time religious fanatics then, gays, adulterers, porn stars…
What was quite striking is that I really don’t see the scenario in which guy’s penis accidentally pops up under bathrobe on national TV which provoked a tsunami of e-mail sent by angry mother’s in which they are threatening with child abuse lawsuit as something even remotely possible here. Screaming kid terrified with the site of that guy’s exposed package “Mommy make him go away!!!”. I can SO imagine slapping a kid instead! Or when you are selling a piece of jewelry to a mother to look nice on her son’s funeral saying “This [I forgot what, necklace or earrings] will be such a nice tribute to your son”. Now THAT would be a reason to fire someone. Not the penis or tits.
As I said this was amusing read. Lovely humour. As Ri said it was just like watching Simpsons.

off to Sunny.

Hi everyone!!
Not read anything by this author before - but this looks like something i will enjoy. Thanks for the book and the postcard Zeddy x