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TRIPLE FEATURE: A Novel

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Great romp! I read the original British version, "The Movie". Bagshawe has the requisite skill for this type of escapist fiction - sexy, witty (at times), tongue-in-cheek, femme fatale fantasies come to life. No aspirations for great literature although the writing is very good. Her first novel, Career Girls, is more thrilling. Reading her books makes you feel like a very clever, attractive, sophisticated babe who can conquer the world. You can't help but root for her heroines - brainy babes with laser-like focus. Also read her third novel, Tall Poppies, whose story lags a bit compared to the previous two. Saw her fourth novel on the shelves of my neighborhood library today: Venus Envy.

I simply adore good reads with a little romance and intrigue - where the good guys win, bad guys lose and screwed up folks get sorted out. This book does all that and wraps up nicely. Megan Silver is an unknown writer who has a flash of inspiration and writes a great screenplay. Now she just has to get it published. She moves from San Francisco to Los Angeles (though the book does this rather strangely - all of a sudden she is working at a chicken joint in LA and you have to page back to make sure of which character she is) to try to get her screenplay sold. Roxana Felix is a spoiled, self-absorbed supermodel turned wannabe actress. Eleanor Marshall is the new president of a failing movie studio. All of these women have something to prove and they all come together in a very fun, fast-paced read.

This is the first Bagshawe book I read. I really liked her ability to portray a scene - I had the entire movie mentally cast as I was reading the book. (How about Angelina Jolie as Roxana?)

This one prompted me to buy her others, some of which werent as good (Tall Poppies) and some even better (Venus Envy).

Definitely a great day-at-the-beach or afternoon-sick-in-bed read. The characters may be very "Hollywood", and the plot predictable, but *something* keeps us tuning into ET every night, and it isn't the quality journalism.

I loved this book! It was so addictive. I enjoyed nothing better than to sit down with it and completely escape from my normal way of life and get totally engrossed with it. If u enjoy this type of book, .... then i seriously suggest u buy this, Louise Bagshame is a great writer with perfect timing and i just wanted to get to the end of the book so i found out what happened to everyone, and i wasn't dissapointed!

I have to wonder just what Louise Bagshawe intended with _Triple Feature_. As a run of the mill, summer-at-the-beach, escapist yarn, this book serves nicely, and even offers occasionally evocative writing.

But under the surface, beyond stock characters and cliched developments, lurks something rather intelligent. Ms. Bagshawe presents a "perfect" movie script, without bothering to try and write one. Actually, she makes this mysterious thing more interesting in abstentia than it would have been spelled out.

And these characters are just too idealized. They are too "Hollywood." This was probably the intent, but as Ms. Bagshawe creates a fantasy, she manages to parody it as well.

In the end, Ms. Bagshawe becomes something of a literary Jerry Springer. As she gives the reading public what it wants, she seems to be hiding a sardonic smile backstage. And this makes it half way worthwhile.