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Narrated by:
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Glen McCready
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By:
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Ben Elton
The ultimate pop quest. Ninety-five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that’s Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.
Calvin always wins, because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers, and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted ‘search’ for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The ‘real’ is about to be put back into ‘reality’ television, and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation’s favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.
Ben Elton, author of Popcorn and Dead Famous returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.
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The narrator was very good.
I'm looking forwards to more unabridged Ben Elton audiobooks.
Ok, but bit a bit repetitive.
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Not his best work
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I normally love Ben Elton books, I have never found one I disliked. He is normally SOOO funny, topical and sarcastic.
With this book through, it is just repetitive. I got the point in the first hour. The show is a fake, reality TV is staged and all the celebs are self-serving egotists. OK, now repeat the above for next 11 hours, dissect every shot, every staged reaction, every scripted sound-bite and that is the book.
In addition - there are no redeemable characters. Even the female lead is weak.
Don't waste a credit.
As boring as the real show!
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Awful
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