Sunday, February 18, 2007

The book "Dead Famous" by Ben Elton

It is an interesting book. The story is about a murder that occurs in a TV contest, named 'House Arrest', that copies the idea of the TV programme, we know it in Spain like 'The Big Brother'.
There it has been a murder in the show, and the police is reviewing all the recorded programmes in order to look for any kind of trace that could lead to find the assassin.
The book describes the show from inside, the manipulation that the contenders suffer from the editors and management of the television, how everything that appears in the homes screen has been set up before the exhibition. How the programme is focused to gain the attention of the viewers. Even the show is absolute rubbish, it only pretends to entertain and catch as much people as possible, to ensure the publicity paying for it. In a word is absolute business, despite de gossip and morbiness kept around the contestants of the programme.

1 comment:

jborras4 said...

Came on! I think you are really advertising the book!