Great read. Loved this book! It started better than it finished but it gripped me until the end
I was really disappointed with Ben Elton's latest book. The idea was of course extraordinary as with all Ben's novels but the execution, I thought was surprisingly poor. The dialogue and soppy main character bored me to tears in the first half of the book and if I had to hear about how much he m...
Some time ago, mostly during my university years I read several novels by Ben Elton, so I presume I must have liked his books quite a bit, otherwise I wouldn’t have read so many of them. Anyway, a couple of years passed since then, and now I mostly remember that a Ben Elton novel is an excellent ...
I had never read a Ben Elton book before but have always liked his screen work. I can honestly say that this book was not what I was expecting but with my previous experience of his work being Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line and Maybe Baby that came as little surprise. This book was an absoulute g...
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 e...
I've long meant to read the novels by Ben Elton, a writer whom I have admired for his movie and television work of comic genius such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Blackadder, and Love Actually. This is his fourth or fifth novel, and I figured that me must have been able to shift into a new medi...
Zum Inhalt: Sam und Lucy sind das typische britische Paar. Beide haben einen recht gut bezahlten Job, sie leben in einem hübschen Häuschen in London, haben Freunde und ein schönes Leben. Doch eins fehlt ihnen: ein Kind. Besonders Lucy ist fast schon besessen von dem Gedanken, endlich Mutter zu se...
What would happen if a rich media mogul and business man decided to try and market the end of the world? Well this is Ben Elton's take on it.The book opens with a supertanker running aground spilling its contents on the sea and coastline killing everything in its path but it soon becomes clear th...
The weather has always been a source of endless conversation but now the mantra had changed. The song did not remain the same? Whereas previously the comment had always been along the lines of 'bloody awful weather . . .' Now people constantly moaned that it was 'funny' weather; it was not like i...
This book is essential reading for everyone in the world who has ever watched and enjoyed a reality television ‘talent’ show.Seriously. If you love them, it will open your eyes to how foolish you have been in trusting them, and if you are already a sceptic, you will enjoy the fantastically witty ...
The script of Ben Elton's first play. A satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Designer air proves to be the marketing phenomenon of the decade, but as demand outstrips supply, Lockheart Industries plunders the Third World for resources. The world is starting to gasp, and onl...
The company was in the midst of a massive catalogue update, bringing a series of new models and improved classics onto the market. By rights, Bruce Tungsten should have been at his sharpest and most involved. He wasn't though, he was preoccupied, his mind was clearly elsewhere. In vain, the top d...
It was a hard journey indeed: there was no vehicle available for him to commandeer and even had he been able to do so he would have got no further with it than he managed aboard the various lifts that he found. The roads were swollen with a massive and continual traffic of men, machines and horse...
9.30 p.m.As she stepped out of the house Layla was bathed in almost impossibly bright light, which turned her and the house behind her bleach white. A huge bald security man in a padded bomber- jacket stepped forward and took her arm. He led her onto the platform of a firework-bedecked cherry pic...
'We can't possibly expand our recruitment programme. It simply isn't our way.' 'You said it was the duty of every Humanist to be a missionary, to spread the knowledge.' 'It's also our duty not to get caught and risk handing the whole damn network to the Inquisition!' 'Network! It's not a network....