[LEE]

Ben Elton's latest novel is about reality TV. It's about a very 'Big Brother' like TV show called 'House Arrest'.

I bought it today as I thought it looked interesting.

This is what the inside cover says:
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One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones.
Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.

Everybody know the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex and with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then, suddenly, there are some new ones.

Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?
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When I've finished it I'll let you know what I think.

[Edited on 30-11-2001 by LEE]