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 Natural Selection - Bill Dare
Newest Review: ... of the novel I found the most entertaining and insightful, even if some of the game show analogies that creep into the text ... more  ... and dialogue become a little forced.
I always wanted to be a penniless, struggling writer when I grew up, so it's always interesting to read about people living the dream, and the story manages to be both inspiring and tragic as James and Gerard forsake the dully reliable option of proper employment in favour of making a quick million by selling their irresistibly simple gameshow idea to TV executives. Just as soon as they come up with one during their increasingly desperate brainstorming sessions that isn't implaus...more |
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Piatkus Books,ISBN: 0749934263
The biggest draw of Natural Selection is the fact that it's the d ... Last Update 02.12.2008 19:30
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Natural Selection - Bill Dare: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1411 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 05/12/07 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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Bill Dare's first novel considers itself to be above the simple romantic comedy, and approaches the tediously popular genre from a self-consciously, slightly-different angle. Bearing in mind this desperation to avoid the clichés, it can't be argued that the plot still proceeds along the basic line of boy meets girl / boy falls desperately in love with girl, who is uninterested and/or afraid of spoiling the friendship / boy and girl begin relationship, ahh, and throws the customary potential threat of an potential impossibly charismatic and handsome male rival, balanced out by the safely asexual, funny, clinically depressed mate. The main difference is made clear right at ...
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