  Category: Culture Well, Pamela Anderson has finally urlLink written a novel , thank God. Up until now, we had thought her talents were limited to starring in the most popular TV shows of all time - it turns out there's more. The reviewers, of course, have lined up to urlLink pan the novel in language they consider ironic or sarcastic or at the very least smartly condescending, I guess.
From urlLink The Guardian : "The cover features a naked spread of the author, with judiciously placed white stars to avoid obscenity suits. And there is another 'bonus' spread on the inside of the cover (minus all that pesky writing covering up the air-brushed flesh). 'Find out what happens when the A-list meets the D-cup,' the blurb promises. Proust this is not. " Proust this is not . Wow, how's that to deflate your expectations. Well, I'll tell you, it didn't dampen my enthusiasm for the book one bit, especially after I read this urlLink supposedly tepid plot summary : "The first chapter features ho-hum teen lesbian sex and probably goes downhill from there if I'd bothered reading past. Maybe if, I dunno, Barbi Benton wrote a novel I'd be more inclined to read it, but I rather doubt it. " Downhill from teen lesbian sex? That's like chiding Hamlet for going downhill after the "To Be or Not To Be" monologue.
I mean, sometimes down is the only way to go. That's not a reason to knock the book. Anyway, what are these reviewers attempting to demonstrate - that they're more literate than Pamela Anderson? The Guardian reviewer, actually, eventually admits " Star is not badly written, as trash goes. Some observations are genuinely witty. " He hedges though: "One wonders, though, whether Ms Anderson's fans are really the kind of people who can be bothered to read a book.
" It would almost give this review too much credit to go into the absurdly false dichotemy this final statement sets up, as if book readers and Pamela Anderson fans are mutually exclusive species. I'll just say this: it's been a bad summer for fiction, but I know one book reader who's got a new novel at the top of his summer list. Here's a promising urlLink exerpt from Chapter One. 
