Title: Let Me Whisper Plugs For Products
Product review: Ms Clark is a producer and writer for CBS News. The news on TV has become a vehicle for advertising; perhaps this is where the author got her idea that advertisements should be generously sprinkled throughout the book. She devotes two pages plugging glass ornaments by Christopher Radko. FAO Schwarz gets three pages. Jaguar and Range Rovers get honorable mention. Various restaurants get plugs. Cookbooks, magazines and TV shows are also well represented. One character is murdered wearing a Pashmina shawl. Liquor is not generic, only Glenlivet, Dom Perignon, Veuve Clicquot and, the common touch, Budweiser. The blurbs go on and on.The sad thing is that the book is otherwise interesting. The writing, while not of Pulitzer quality, is good. Perhaps in future books Ms Clark will imagine herself working for PBS and can the commercials.
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