And then…

….we get a review of SOMEONE LIKE YOU that cracks me up. I think we should have some product placement dollars coming to us.

From the Sonoma, CA-area GLBT paper “We the People,” Hal Campbell says:

Our final destination is Terre Haute, Indiana, home of the Mall of the Universe. Visualize your typical high-end shopping center. Now toss in Disneyland, a swanky branch of a “Major Hotel Chain,” and enough restaurants to rival San Francisco for selection. Then plunk down amidst it all a skyscraper of apartments and condominiums, and you’ll have an idea of why some employees never see the outside world. It’s a wonder everyone is not sick all the time from breathing all that recycled air.

The collection of characters is vast: gay, straight, confused, men, women, Caucasian, African-American, Asian-American, nice, nicer, not-so-nice, and of course a Super Bitch loathed and feared by all who dare speak her name. There are more plot lines to resolve than there are colognes in the men’s fragrance department. But author Beck resolves them all nicely and makes you want to max out your credit cards on some major retail therapy.

I’m embarrassed to tell you that after reading this novel, I actually went on line and bought some Marc Jacobs cologne without having sampled it first. (It was a frequent topic of conversation among some of the novel’s characters.) Now everywhere I go, I tell people to smell me. I’m pathetic.

No, Hal Campbell, you are not pathetic. You are a sweetheart. And you smell great.