Popcorn
Bruce Dalamitri makes cool films about killers. Films where people die to a rock and roll soundtrack. But when, on Oscar night, he has to face up to the real thing - in the shape of psychotics Wayne and Scout - it isn't quite to his liking.
Bruce Dalamitri makes cool films about killers. Films where people die to a rock and roll soundtrack. But when, on Oscar night, he has to face up to the real thing - in the shape of psychotics Wayne and Scout - it isn't quite to his liking.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780684816128 (0684816121)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Crime,
Modern
Amusing enough for a long flight or for the beach. That's it.
A playful satire on the Hollywood media circus that surrounds celebrity, on the violence that permeates through modern culture, and a society that often doesn't take responsibility for its actions.Popcorn is a surprisingly enjoyable book that leaves you tantalisingly on the precipice of knowing who ...
This is your textbook example of a 3 star book. Right between all the good and all the bad books. The story was gripping, the moral dilemmas were interesting, the build-up was well carried out. It worked as a satire on media, violence disguised as art and entertainment and basically our society that...
Dear P has to read this for school - he has read the first chapter and is not impressed at all. It does seem a rather obscure choice. So I am reading it for him...On the morning after the night it happened, Bruce Delamitri was sitting in a police interview room.Characters:Bruce Delamitri - Hollywood...
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