MaxSebastian
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I went into the bookshop again and I am absolutely bemused at how many post-Bridget Jones 30-something confessional books there are out there.
Maybe it's just a UK thing, I don't know, but it seems that now almost half of bookshops nation wide are filled with these novels about fairly affluent white middle class thirty-somethings and their intensely mediocre lives.
Ever since Bridget Jones came on the scene, there's been an explosion in them. But Bridget Jones was quite funny. These books that try to tap into the same market purport to be 'humourous' but they're actually about as funny as a chemistry exam.
Time used to be that books were there for people to read stories. But these books, written by either PR-types or fluffy low-grade journalists all seem to be bland nothings without real plot or character.
Are there actually any people out there who still enjoy these kind of books? Really? You're kidding me!
Maybe I should start writing one myself, then.
Josie is a 30-something PR girl with really whacky friends! Well, imagine they're whacky, because we're slightly short on gags. Anyway. Where were we. Ah yes, Josie is a 30-something PR girl, oh the glamour! But she's just been dumped by her beastly boyfriend. Boo! Hiss! We hate men... la la la... fluffy post-Spice Girl feminism... but then she suddenly bumps into this gorgeous Darcy-type Jane Austen-hero-rip-off (we'll call him 'Mark')and just happens to become his entirely platonic friend. Of course Josie has a sharp mind and sparkling wit - never afraid to use a cutting put-down or witty retort, our Josie! But we'll let it slide that she's apparently too stupid to realise that she actually fancies the pants off our 'Mark' Darcy-type. And then since we've pinched - uh... sorry... been inspired by the odd character or two from Jane Austen, why not a so-called 'plot', too! And it's all so glamorous! Doesn't everyone want to be a hip young PR like our Josie (and by extension, our Author, whose ego is apparently so immense it even dwarfs his talent! Even though the reality is he's actually the dullest person there is! He just puts exclamation marks everywhere! I mean, we might even have to get Richard Curtis in to come up with some fluffy, wholesome gags for the whole family - just to get that all-important word 'humourous' onto the back cover somewhere).
Now all I have to do is get some rent-a-quote D-list celebrities to give me some nice comments...
TV's Tom O'Connor, writing in Kleptomania Monthly said: "I just simply had to have it!"
Former President Ronald Reagan in Alzheimer's World said: "I read it over and over and over and over again..."
TV Chef Delia Smith said in her book How to Cook: "Very good for the store cupboard as it not only adds flavour to dressings and sauces but also a lovely seedy texture..."
...and Robert's your mother's brother.
Bring back proper books, I say.
Hmm... Where the Wild Things Are... now there's a book. Excuse me, I have some reading to do...
Maybe it's just a UK thing, I don't know, but it seems that now almost half of bookshops nation wide are filled with these novels about fairly affluent white middle class thirty-somethings and their intensely mediocre lives.
Ever since Bridget Jones came on the scene, there's been an explosion in them. But Bridget Jones was quite funny. These books that try to tap into the same market purport to be 'humourous' but they're actually about as funny as a chemistry exam.
Time used to be that books were there for people to read stories. But these books, written by either PR-types or fluffy low-grade journalists all seem to be bland nothings without real plot or character.
Are there actually any people out there who still enjoy these kind of books? Really? You're kidding me!
Maybe I should start writing one myself, then.
Josie is a 30-something PR girl with really whacky friends! Well, imagine they're whacky, because we're slightly short on gags. Anyway. Where were we. Ah yes, Josie is a 30-something PR girl, oh the glamour! But she's just been dumped by her beastly boyfriend. Boo! Hiss! We hate men... la la la... fluffy post-Spice Girl feminism... but then she suddenly bumps into this gorgeous Darcy-type Jane Austen-hero-rip-off (we'll call him 'Mark')and just happens to become his entirely platonic friend. Of course Josie has a sharp mind and sparkling wit - never afraid to use a cutting put-down or witty retort, our Josie! But we'll let it slide that she's apparently too stupid to realise that she actually fancies the pants off our 'Mark' Darcy-type. And then since we've pinched - uh... sorry... been inspired by the odd character or two from Jane Austen, why not a so-called 'plot', too! And it's all so glamorous! Doesn't everyone want to be a hip young PR like our Josie (and by extension, our Author, whose ego is apparently so immense it even dwarfs his talent! Even though the reality is he's actually the dullest person there is! He just puts exclamation marks everywhere! I mean, we might even have to get Richard Curtis in to come up with some fluffy, wholesome gags for the whole family - just to get that all-important word 'humourous' onto the back cover somewhere).
Now all I have to do is get some rent-a-quote D-list celebrities to give me some nice comments...
TV's Tom O'Connor, writing in Kleptomania Monthly said: "I just simply had to have it!"
Former President Ronald Reagan in Alzheimer's World said: "I read it over and over and over and over again..."
TV Chef Delia Smith said in her book How to Cook: "Very good for the store cupboard as it not only adds flavour to dressings and sauces but also a lovely seedy texture..."
...and Robert's your mother's brother.
Bring back proper books, I say.
Hmm... Where the Wild Things Are... now there's a book. Excuse me, I have some reading to do...
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