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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1   booooo | Nov 17, 2009 |  Pretty funny, but never completely grabbed me. (  ) RatSoup | Oct 7, 2009 | Does life imitate art or does art imitate life? Ben Elton tackles this question using a humorous yet chilling story, making us question who is really responsible for the problems with society. The book is well written and interesting, but I didn't enoy it as much as some of his other books. ( ) Amzzz | Feb 28, 2008 | Highly cynical "what if" scenario - not my favourite Ben Elton book but still very clever and definitely well-written. (  ) zerraweth | Jul 11, 2007 | I have avoided Ben Elton a long time. I don't really know why - maybe because of the covers, maybe his name reminds me of another writer who made me disappointed sometime? Anyway, that's a good thing. Now I have lot of excellent novels to read, if his other books are as wellwritten as Popcorn. (  ) SofiaAndersson | Jun 27, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Popcorn, a novel from British sitcom writer Ben Elton (Blackadder, The Young Ones), is the satirical novel done 1990s style. It is a book about the movies that indicts the movies, and that has every chance of being made into a movie. It rings all the familiar changes on the theme of Hollywood vapidity, crassness, and decadence; however, Popcorn accomplishes this so deftly that you may not realize that you've heard it all before until you're finished with the book. Popcorn has little new to say about America and the culture for which it stands: talk-show hosts that are vacuous, movies that are violent, and audiences that are moronic. (The one benefit to shooting this particular fish in this particular barrel is that most readers will find it hard to disagree.) That said, the book generates an undeniable tension. Popcorn is a pleasing (if not always pleasant) page-turner, and the last 20 pages will definitely give you pause.
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well, sure his movie does show some violent scenes, but that doesnt make him responsible, does it?
this is my least favourite ben elton,which is very sad, because i loved all his stuff up till now.
sure his writing is still witty, but the characters a two dimensional, and the story is weak. part of the writing is made to be a script with all the camera angels. this is a nice idea, but it only serves to create even more distance to the gruesom events.
the point he's trying to make is how nobody seems to accept responsibility for they actions. he gets his point at the end, pretty impressively. but thats about all that speaks for the book. (