This review will have some serious spoilers, so this is your warning. This book was a trashy glorious book. It does not hold back on the punches. I wouldn't call it sexy, but I will call it tragic. Jennifer: Neely: Anne: Helen: Watching the downward spiral of Neely and Jennifer was really sad b...
" 'You think from day to day. If you allow yourself to think of the future - any personal future - you lose your nerve. And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you've done...the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because t...
Remember mid-century sexism? Imagine that you are a boring good girl, who just moved to New York City and has everything that a young woman just relocated to the city could dream: a menial, but somehow glamorous job, and a crappy apartment to share with an artsy BFF. (There is a whole bohemian bea...
James T. Kirk: You'll find it in all the literature of the period. Spock: For example? James T. Kirk: Oh, the neglected works of Jacqueline Susann, the novels of Harold Robbins.... Spock: Ah... The giants. --Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Actually, although I blush a bit to admit it, I really re...
I've been meaning to read this book for ages. I first heard about it in my early teenage years, probably in a biography of Courtney Love or something like that. Well, it's taken me nearly a decade but I finally got around to it, and I really wish I hadn't waited.Centering around the lives of three g...
WOOT - coming to you next week from t't BBC. What a good way to revisit this period classic. Jacqueline Susann drama with Madeleine Potter.This is just as bad as I remember it. Love me some trash.
Zzzzzzzzzz.....Valley of the Dulls is more like it. One hundred pages was all I could stand of endless cheesy dialogue between a bunch of sleazy people with no personalities. Watch the movie instead. At least it's bad enough to be entertaining.
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