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Soap Opera
A tale of sex, scandal, murder, betrayal, and back-stabbing features an all-American heroine who embarks on a career as a soap opera star and realizes that nothing in the plot compares to what is happening offstage
311 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1999
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Eileen Fulton
9 books4 followersMargaret Elizabeth McLarty, known professionally as Eileen Fulton, was an American actress, singer and author. She portrayed Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she played almost continuously for 50 years, from May 18, 1960, until the show's ending on September 17, 2010. She also starred on Our Private World (1965), a primetime spin-off of As the World Turns. For her work on ATWT, she received an Editor's Award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1991 and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Fulton appeared in theatrical productions including the original Broadway run of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She performed a cabaret act at theaters in New York and Los Angeles. She co-authored two autobiographies, How My World Turns and As My World Still Turns. She also wrote a novel titled Soap Opera, and six murder-mystery novels.
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December 11, 2011
I finally decided to read this book because it was the book that had set on it the longest without being read. I had made a goal that I would not purchase another book until I had read at least 75 percent of the books on my shelf. I started with this one since, as I stated, it had set there the longest.
In this book there were moments that I greatly enjoyed the story that was taking place, but in other places there were moments were you are sickened by the story that is being told. Eileen Fulton knows the underlying world of Soap Operas because she had worked on one for almost 40ish years before "As The World Turns" was cancelled on CBS. I was hoping to get more of the reality of the behind the scenes from her in this book, but instead I got this overly tragic story. One of the stories, without giving too much away, is truly disgusting. It was very hard to read those particular scenes. If you pick up the book you won't question which scenes I am talking about.
Some of the characters do not seem to be fully developed here either. There are so many subplots that could have been developed differently, but never seem to get off the ground much. One of these is in the character of Jade Savage. She never seems to be fully developed during the course of the story. Then one character that seems very important at the beginning isn't mentioned for the great majority of the book until the "epilogue". I wish Eileen Fulton would have had less characters with more of a direct focus of where they were going in the story.
I have to state this was probably one of the harder books to get through because the story wasn't one that was compelling. I am glad, however, that it is finally off my to-be-read shelf in real life.
In this book there were moments that I greatly enjoyed the story that was taking place, but in other places there were moments were you are sickened by the story that is being told. Eileen Fulton knows the underlying world of Soap Operas because she had worked on one for almost 40ish years before "As The World Turns" was cancelled on CBS. I was hoping to get more of the reality of the behind the scenes from her in this book, but instead I got this overly tragic story. One of the stories, without giving too much away, is truly disgusting. It was very hard to read those particular scenes. If you pick up the book you won't question which scenes I am talking about.
Some of the characters do not seem to be fully developed here either. There are so many subplots that could have been developed differently, but never seem to get off the ground much. One of these is in the character of Jade Savage. She never seems to be fully developed during the course of the story. Then one character that seems very important at the beginning isn't mentioned for the great majority of the book until the "epilogue". I wish Eileen Fulton would have had less characters with more of a direct focus of where they were going in the story.
I have to state this was probably one of the harder books to get through because the story wasn't one that was compelling. I am glad, however, that it is finally off my to-be-read shelf in real life.
June 5, 2016
I finally decided to read this book because it was the book that had set on it the longest without being read. I had made a goal that I would not purchase another book until I had read at least 75 percent of the books on my shelf. I started with this one since, as I stated, it had set there the longest.
In this book there were moments that I greatly enjoyed the story that was taking place, but in other places there were moments were you are sickened by the story that is being told. Eileen Fulton knows the underlying world of Soap Operas because she had worked on one for almost 40ish years before "As The World Turns" was cancelled on CBS. I was hoping to get more of the reality of the behind the scenes from her in this book, but instead I got this overly tragic story. One of the stories, without giving too much away, is truly disgusting. It was very hard to read those particular scenes. If you pick up the book you won't question which scenes I am talking about.
Some of the characters do not seem to be fully developed here either. There are so many subplots that could have been developed differently, but never seem to get off the ground much. One of these is in the character of Jade Savage. She never seems to be fully developed during the course of the story. Then one character that seems very important at the beginning isn't mentioned for the great majority of the book until the "epilogue". I wish Eileen Fulton would have had less characters with more of a direct focus of where they were going in the story.
I have to state this was probably one of the harder books to get through because the story wasn't one that was compelling. I am glad, however, that it is finally off my to-be-read shelf in real life.
In this book there were moments that I greatly enjoyed the story that was taking place, but in other places there were moments were you are sickened by the story that is being told. Eileen Fulton knows the underlying world of Soap Operas because she had worked on one for almost 40ish years before "As The World Turns" was cancelled on CBS. I was hoping to get more of the reality of the behind the scenes from her in this book, but instead I got this overly tragic story. One of the stories, without giving too much away, is truly disgusting. It was very hard to read those particular scenes. If you pick up the book you won't question which scenes I am talking about.
Some of the characters do not seem to be fully developed here either. There are so many subplots that could have been developed differently, but never seem to get off the ground much. One of these is in the character of Jade Savage. She never seems to be fully developed during the course of the story. Then one character that seems very important at the beginning isn't mentioned for the great majority of the book until the "epilogue". I wish Eileen Fulton would have had less characters with more of a direct focus of where they were going in the story.
I have to state this was probably one of the harder books to get through because the story wasn't one that was compelling. I am glad, however, that it is finally off my to-be-read shelf in real life.
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November 13, 2007It's OK so far...not a favorite but I will finish it
June 6, 2011
It's a lark for soap fans only.
June 11, 2014
I loved this book! The story was well written and the plot had unexpected twists. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes soap operas and those types of settings.
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