Pills & Pucci: Those Sex & Shopping Novels!

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Jun 9, 2009 15:42:21 GMT -4 chiqui said:

I luuurrved Jackie Collins' Rock Star. Its so tacky, cliche-ridden, overmelodramatic, and totally readable. It was so much fun trying to guess who all the characters were based on. There's Kris Phoenix, lead singer of a rock band that's a mashup of the Beatles and the Stones; another singer is meant to be Mariah Carey with an Ethiopean opera singer father, and there's a villanous Ahmet Ertegun character with a secretly black (she bleaches her skin) wife. There's suicides, intrigue, wife beating, appearances by royalty, miraculously cured blindness, and terrorists at the big concert at the end! Totally cheesy fun.

In a similar vein music author Lisa Robinson wrote Walk on Glass that tried to be a trashy novel about a female singer/songwriter's rise to fame, but took it too seriously so it wasn't as much fun.

I read an article with Jackie Collins that Kris is Rod Stewart, Sade is the singer who has the Ethiopian father and that the blind singer is based on Teddy Pendergrass.

[huntergrayson]

Those going the library route -I would seriously complain if they don't carry VotD. It made Guinness as the Best-Selling Novel of All Time! at one point.

[HotLips]

My library doesn't have VOTD, only Shadow of the Dolls, which, according to wiki, is a sequel based on notes left by JS. I'll probably just look for VOTD on Amazon. I used to have a copy, but I lost it a million years ago.

[huntergrayson]

Ironically, I can't find Shadow in any bookstores anymore. I should totally suck it up and go to Amazon as well.

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Jun 9, 2009 23:29:36 GMT -4 HotLips said:

My library doesn't have VOTD, only Shadow of the Dolls, which, according to wiki, is a sequel based on notes left by JS. I'll probably just look for VOTD on Amazon. I used to have a copy, but I lost it a million years ago.

Count yourself lucky - my library has nothing at all. (I, as usual, chalk it up to the fire that took out the fiction section in '86. I'm shocked if the library has something I'm interested in.) I may check out the local used bookstore to see what I can turn up.

[Metizia]

I have not had any interest in fiction since reading those R.L. Stein books around 10 years ago but this thread has made me curious.

My library only owns Dolores but luckily it is part of a consortium and I can borrow the other books from other libraries.

[HotLips]

Have you read Shadow before, hunter? Is it any good? It sounds kinda iffy.

[huntergrayson]

I gave it as a gift to a friend way back but have never read it myself. It *definitely* sounds iffy though.

(she was the first girl I made read VotD and she DEMANDs I cast her as Neely when I'm a famous writer/director.)

Meanwhile, I am going to curl up with OINE, my nightcap and Bon-Bons. Good times.

From page 241:

[January]:"...If we're going to crash [the party], we're going to crash with style."

Linda laughed nervously. "Do you really think a limo will give us enough style to pull it off?"

"Well, Ernest Hemingway once defined style as grace under pressure. And arriving in a limousine is certainly a step in the right direction."

I love you so much, Jacqueline Susann.

[chiqui]

I think all the fucking in the S&F novels moved over to the vampire/werewolf/supernatural ones.

[huntergrayson]

Oh NOES! Tom Colt has a tiny cock! OH NOES!

I am way, way too invested in OINE because I am unreasonably disappointed.