Advantages: Gripping thriller. Witty social commentary. Disadvantages: A lot of graphic violence and sex scenes.
Ben Elton is a multi-talented entertainer. He is a successful stand-up comedian; he has a fast growing list of Television comedy screenplays to his name; he has written three pop-musicals and he is a novelist of some renown for his social commentary.
Elton has used many areas of popular culture as a basis for his novels which have so far featured amongst others Reality Television, Film Violence, Infertility treatment and drug legislation. For his most recent novel, Past Mortem released on 1st November 2004 by Bantam, Elton turns to the Internet for his inspiration. Here he focuses on the popular website, Friends Reunited
Friends Reunited operates in several countries including Great Britain and Australia. People register on the site leaving messages for anyone who attended the same class or school. Others reading the messages ...
Advantages: fascinating, easy to read, Disadvantages: far too absorbing
As I am currently not working I have plenty of time on my hands and am so far using a fairly large chunk of it reading and re-reading some of the heaps of books that litter my bedroom (I was meant to be tidying up, but you know how rude it is to pick up a book and not read it don't you?). This is one that for whatever reason had previously been overlooked so must have been languishing in book purgatory for over a year, given that I have always enjoyed Ben Eltons other books it was time to devote my eyes to this one.
It is well known that this book is about one of the hardest topics for any couple to come to terms with. The reasons behind infertility and the solutions to this problem. Of course it is also known that Ben Elton is writing from his own experiences as he and his wife had to get IVF treatment before they could become ...
Advantages: Quality of music & lyrics, artwork on cover Disadvantages: None
example. One of my favourite albums is Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellowbrick Road' & it falls into this category. Five years into his career, he & Bernie Taupin wrote this double album & I often consider it to be their very best work.
I know he has written many good albums since (and some dire ones) but this is the one that stands head & shoulders above all others.
Elton cannot write lyrics & Bernie Taupin cannot write music, but together they have created some of the world's finest songs in the past 40 years. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road is a double album featuring 18 songs all produced by the late Gus Dudgeon. It features Elton's band members at the time, Nigel Olsen on drums, the late Dee Murray on bass guitar & Davey Johnston on lead guitar. Del Newman was called in to do the orchestral arrangements & David Hentschel featured on the ARP ...
