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 enlarge | Author: Penny Smith
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 12464
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0007268890
EAN: 9780007268894
ASIN: 0007268890
Publication Date: July 21, 2008
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 The Penny Pun-Smith Monologues November 3, 2008
There is a known mental illness where the sufferer is compelled to make rhyming sounds with the words they hear. I fear Ms pun-Smith is a sufferer. Keep taking the tablets dear, and please don't pretend to have written a novel ever again. This dreadful tripe - the outpourings of an extremely drunk, vacuous and bitchy media type should never have been recorded in print. If you are a resident of London and have any familiariity with the minor TV people who populate the news magazine programmes, you'll soon work out who the so-called characters are based upon. This book is so bad, however, that all of the characters share the same verbal punning diarrhoea. Thus, there is only one POV and that is Ms pun-Smith's. Want to read a very well written book about vacuous people? Read Evelyn Waugh's 'A Handful of Dust'.
Oh dear October 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is appalling - didn't she have an editor? The humour was infantile, a non-existent plot, and extremely poor characterisation. A classic case of take the money and run - only the joke was on those of us who paid for it.
Awful, just blinkin' AWFUL!!!!! September 10, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Seriously, Penny, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!!
"Bright lights, cat fights"
"Breakfast just got bitchier"
2 good sub-titles that made me buy it, such a shame that they are totally unrelated to this book!
Barely a plot, horrendous puns (almost like writing the book was just an excuse to cobble together all the one's she'd ever heard) and what on earth was that ending all about?
The Daily Record said:
'Such wry, sassy fun she might want to give up her day job'
Don't! Really, just...DON'T
Prize for worse read of the year! September 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Thank goodness I borrowed this from the library and didn't spend money on it. Such tedious unfunny jokes every other sentance, who was her editor? Anyway, a quick short read, so not too much time wasted, if you like Penny and want to see what she is like as an author - very dissapointing. Not an interesting story but I plodded on in the hope it would get better, but no.
Don't waste your time! September 4, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I took this on holiday to read and when I got to just Page 46 I wondered why I was bothering. However, I persevered , but it didn't get any better!! The characters had no depth to them at all, the constant use of puns was cringeworthy and the story went nowhere.
Also, I couldn't help thinking that if the main character drank as much alcohol as Penny said she did, she would have almost been in hospital having her stomach pumped!!! Maybe life's like that in the TV world - no wonder they need so much make-up!
More irritating than enjoyable - don't bother.
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