Sellivision

I'm a big fan of scarcastic humor in novels. I love it. If a book doesn't make me laugh, then it's not a top book for me.

I'm on my second reading of the novel "Sellivision" by Augusten Burroughs. Set in a Home Shopping Network-ish channel called, you guessed it, Sellivision, the story turns the conventional stereotypes on their heads.

There's a "everyday mother", who prides herself on being "just like everyone else", even though she's an alcohol, is insane about her image (at one point in the story she tries to remove 'earlobe hair', and has a failing marriage. The woman who is sleeping with the head of the network gets jilted, so she gets revenge... on the air. Then there's this one lady who has this thing about catalog shopping, basically an addiction.

But my personal favorite is the Sellivision host turned porn star. Yes, you read that right. Porn Star. It seems that this guy "accidentally exposed his penis on air" during a segment called "Slumber Sunday Sundown." All the people on stage were in bathrobes, but he was the only one that didn't have anything on under his robe. At all. Stark naked. Needless to say, he got fired. After no one else would hire him, thanks to the penis fiasco, he ends up falling into the porn industry - becoming a leader of a whole new culture.

Get this book. Read it. Twice. Seriously.