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06-28-2014 03:52 PM
After 17 years at QVC, former producer Jim Breslin decided to pen a novel inspired by his time behind the scenes at the world's largest home shopping network. Shoplandia opens the studio doors and invites you into the fast-paced, high-pressure world where it's always live and anything could happen and usually does.
06-28-2014 03:54 PM
Read it, wasn't impressed. Would rather have my money back.
06-28-2014 03:54 PM
Sounds like an interesting read. I hope it has lots of photos.
06-28-2014 03:55 PM
No photos, it's a work of fiction.
06-28-2014 03:56 PM
On 6/28/2014 PalmTree11 said:Read it, wasn't impressed. Would rather have my money back.
I think it's definitely a book to get from the library. I would not pay for it.
Were you able to guess about which hosts he was talking?
06-28-2014 04:34 PM
On 6/28/2014 lolakimono said:On 6/28/2014 PalmTree11 said:Read it, wasn't impressed. Would rather have my money back.
I think it's definitely a book to get from the library. I would not pay for it.
Were you able to guess about which hosts he was talking?
Honestly I wasn't... One is a male host who molests the models, one is a new girl who everyone adores but is the envy of her coworkers, one is fired and ends up a homeless drug addict... It's pretty weird. At one point one of the vendor's tiny dogs gets killed when it runs into the gears when the stage is being rotated... Not my kind of book. You get some insight into how miserable it is to be working behind the scenes, and you can tell which product lined are being referred to at times (Quaker Factory), but a lot of it is just unreal.
06-28-2014 04:49 PM
No. Just not that interested, or interesting.
06-28-2014 04:56 PM
I'd read it if it was nonfiction; a tell-all book. But a novel? No.
06-28-2014 06:02 PM
On 6/28/2014 PalmTree11 said:Honestly I wasn't... One is a male host who molests the models, one is a new girl who everyone adores but is the envy of her coworkers, one is fired and ends up a homeless drug addict... It's pretty weird. At one point one of the vendor's tiny dogs gets killed when it runs into the gears when the stage is being rotated... Not my kind of book. You get some insight into how miserable it is to be working behind the scenes, and you can tell which product lined are being referred to at times (Quaker Factory), but a lot of it is just unreal.
Well, if I thought I wanted to read it, I feel like I no longer need to
06-28-2014 06:05 PM
Thanks, but I'll stick to Dostoevsky when I have the time.
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