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Summary: excellent
Review: of all the material that i have read in the past i must admit that is has to be one of the most exhilarating books that i have had the opportunity to read in my life. although most of the events have no real relavence to my life i was still very intrigued by the accounts of those women. i feel that is has truly got to be one of the better written accounts of a less than luxorious life that i have read. i also haf the opportunity to review the movie that was made not too long ago about the account of jacuqeline susan's life which stared bette midler and nathan lane. the movei, although it did not fare too well in the movie theaters was very good. i recommend it to any one.
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Summary: Valley of the Dolls
Review: This book is so good! I couldn't put it down. Although the story takes place starting in the 1940's and was written way in back 1961, it is very modern. I loved it!
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Summary: a captivating read
Review: Even though this book takes place long before I entered the new york dating scene, I found myself easily relating to Anne on so many levels! Susann's timeless motives and themes made this book such a quick read! I managed to stay up all hours of the night just to see what was in store for the girls!
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Summary: You must read this book
Review: If I tell you that this book changed my life, will you read it? You should. I first read Valley of the Dolls when I was a teenager, and it introduced me to the hypnotic pleasures of "junk fiction." I learned what it meant to read for pure, unadulterated pleasure, and what a thrill it was to read a book many times. Susann's depiction of three career women struggling to the top is a bicoastal orgy of pharmeceutical and artistic profligacy. Neely, Jennifer and Anne all succumb to the booze, dolls and hedonism of their showbiz lifestyles, and their spiralling declines are delicately laced in a book whose vulgarity belies Susann's rather superb craftmanship.Susann's quirky bildungsroman borrows broadly from her own life, (documented in Seaman's wonderful biography, Lovely Me), hints unsubtley at insider knowledge of celebrity hi-jinks of the postwar period, and circles around questions of morality with an exhilirating verve hardly visible now in the kind of bestsellers that emulate this classic. Its success on publication is legendary: Susann and her husband were shameless promoters of the book (it was sold in butchers' shops)and about as colorful as the fiction they were hawking. Truman Capote famously said of Susann that she looked like a truck driver in drag. His insult neatly captues the somewhat prosaic, yet always enjoyable prose of this novel as well as any reviewer could. For added pleasure, watch the movie. It's hard to see Neely O'Hara as anyone but Patty Duke after her extravagant performance in Mark Robson's quite faithful film translation, and Sharon Tate as the alluring Jennifer adds a poignant screen presence. But please, do not deny yourself the sublime camp pleasure of the novel.
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Summary: A Book About Reality
Review: This book took me 2 days to read. I couldn't put it down. It taught me the reality of how many teens face problems such as drugs, and peer pressure. I have learned that money and fame isn't everything in the world. Life can be complicated. This book is about three friends which make mistakes througout their lives and end up paying the consequences. A great book in which will teach you and keep you entertained at the same time! Hope this helps.
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Summary: Shakespeare, Sort Of
Review: Dick Cavett told a great joke when this book was first published. It's said that if you lock ten monkeys in a room with ten typewriters, they'll eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare. Well, recently in Burbank, they locked ten monkeys and ten typewriters in the same room. None of them reproduced Shakespeare, but three of them came up with Valley of the Dolls.
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Summary: DOLLS: I am hooked!
Review: I just finished reading the book again, and I found things that I had missed the first time around! Imagine! I never made the connection that these characters were based on people Jackie had known! I now can see why the novel was so controversial! Neely? Try Judy Garland! Helen? Try Ethel Merman! Jennifer? Try Marilyn Monroe! These had been just characters in her book until I read Lovley Me. I can now see where Helen was based on Ethel Merman. Although I must say, I was shocked to see where Neely was based on Judy Garland. But, in seeing this, I made the connection that although you think you know stars, for the first time, I see that even famous people have different sides that they show to others! I even learned some things about myself in reading this book! I see where I am like Neely in the way that I only take people for what they are and not what they want me to think they are. Having finished the book for the fifth time, I really relate to the childish way that Neely tries to manipulate the people in her life. The suicide attempt that happens after she is taken off of Let's Live Tonight almost matched the suicide attempt I had last summer when I couldn't stop drinking! I am forever in debt to Jacqueline Susann for showing me that fame isn't all it's cracked up to be! I have learned many valuable lessons in reading the book. Maybe I am not so bad off after all! Jennifer had a real talent for being honest and loving, but she never saw all that she could offer to someone. Never in my life would I have imagined that beauty could be a curse! An absolutely fabulous book about life and escapism! Once you read Valley, Mount Everest doesn't seem so beautiful after all!
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Summary: DOLLS: The perfect escape!
Review: When I first read Valley, I was a little surprised. Having seen the movie first, I expected the book to be the same. Boy was I in for a surprise! The movie didn't do it justice. This is the best book for anyone who ever wanted to see the edgier and raw side of love! Follow the adventures of Anne, Neely and Jennifer as the rise to fame and ultimately end up in the only place left to go: DOWN into the Valley of the Dolls! Anyone can be a star, but only for a short time. After the glitz wears off, you need an escape. The best escape comes in the form of a bullet-shaped pill. DOLL! Blessed DOLL! Try to be the same after you read the book. I know I wont ever be the same! Thanks to Jackie, I now understand the true meaning of self-sacrifice! What is a doll? The answer is up to you!
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Summary: Like a sweet dessert.....
Review: Valley of the Dolls is not a novel that's going to reveal some deep truth about the world or make you rethink some aspect of your being. It is pure candy.... A great story which you will probably forget a week after you put it down but draws you in while you read it. If you're looking for a really good light read, this is it!
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Summary: Beautiful trash
Review: The first time I read this book I hated it: the characters are awfully bitchy and frighteningly stupid, the plot is disgusting and tacky, and the ending is horribly depressing and cynical. But I've read this book about five times and still can't get enough of it. I also recommend Once Is Not Enough, by the same author
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