Product Description

'Sellevision' is America's premier retail broadcasting network, and presenter Max Andrews is the jewel in its broadcasting crown. But when the handsome (and lonely and gay) Max accidentally exposes himself in front of sixty million kids the channel faces its biggest scandal. No-one at the network will emerge untarnished as a result of Max's gaping bathrobe during the Slumber Sunday Sundown slot...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114192 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"'Burroughs is wildly, weirdly funny: like an out-of-control David Sedaris.' The Times 'the Brady Bunch on Viagra' Observer 'Poke-in-the-eye sharp' Independent on Sunday 'Savvy, very entertaining' Bret Easton Ellis"

About the Author
Augusten Burroughs is the author of the bestselling Running with Scissors, Dry and Magical Thinking. The film of Running with Scissors is currently in production and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Annette Bening and Joseph Fiennes. It is due to for release in 2006.

Customer Reviews

Horrifically funny!
What a slick, dark and very, very funny book! It's set in the superficial world of television retailing, and features some awful characters - in fact, most of the characters are pretty horrible. This doesn't detract from the book in any way - you're not meant to empathise with them! All sorts of dreadful things happen, with great comic effect. This is the first book I've read in a long time that's actually made me laugh aloud. I'll definitely look up Burroughs' other novels.

bad bad bad
I enjoyed reading 'Running with Scissors', 'Dry' and 'Magical Thinking' and was pleased to find out that Augusten Burroughs had written another book. I was so disappointed. It was very badly written and not very funny or interesting. I've since found out that he wrote this book in a week, and it shows.
If I'd read this book first I would never have gone on to read any of his others.
If you have read Sellevision and none of his other books, I urge you to try them and not be put off by this awful book.

Nowhere near as good as his others
I discovered Augusten Burroughs after reading 'Running with Scissors' which was great, if a little disturbing.
'Dry' and 'Magical Thinking' were also excellent and really funny so I was pleased to find out he'd written another book- 'Sellevision'- at the start of his writing career.
Unfortunately 'Sellevision' was pretty dreadful. It was badly written, (he has improved tenfold in his writing skills since then), the story was full of cliches and the characters dull and two-dimensional.

I really admire Augusten Burroughs and have enjoyed three of his books immensely. He is simply more interesting when writing about himself. It would be interesting to read 'Sellevision' if he wrote it again now. It would be much more daring, funny and, no doubt, better written.