false 50833 26 Sex and drugs and shlock and more -- Jacqueline Susann's addictively entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages, but -- alas! -- she's still a writer for our times. 1203845 1966 Valley of the Dolls total:5968|5:1440|4:1896|3:1826|2:628|1:178| 5968 21696 7629 761 5 47 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 06:38:08 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 11:27:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 6 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Jan 11 00:32:53 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 10:51:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 22:40:51 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 16:02:47 -0700 2008
(Anne's Mother) "You're a lady, Anne. That's why you don't love kissing. No lady...more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Jun 17 15:29:46 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 15:52:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 15:29:46 -0700 2008
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I also learned that God hates women, and having sex will cause you to inadvertently marry a mental defective and be forced to abort his defective fetus.
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Susann's shallowness and immaturity (you get the impression a 14-year-old wrote this) is rampant throughout the book. No one has real feelings. People get married as business contracts. All men chea...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 06:29:45 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 11:33:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 08 01:27:33 -0800 2009 Sat May 16 19:04:16 -0700 2009
As an example of roman à clef, friends close to the author suspected that Susann wrote this book based her own experience, Ethel...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Dec 14 06:33:22 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 08:21:53 -0800 2007
The plot, the characters, the drugs, the sex! T...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 11:54:21 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 15:11:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Feb 29 07:06:25 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 07:35:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 07:58:53 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:17:46 -0700 2009
It turns out to be the tale of three young American women who enter the entertainment business in the mid-40s, only...more...]]> 2 0 false true Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 19:21:39 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 06:34:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 20 18:32:38 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 18:37:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon May 04 03:01:47 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 01:28:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 07:00:55 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 07:04:25 -0800 2009
To be perfectly honest, the writing was fairly terrible, but...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 24 13:17:30 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 13:21:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50833