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1966 - The year I graduated from h.s. The only books I can recall reading from this batch are Valley of the Dolls and In Cold Blood. Oh, and I have that particular dictionary (though not sure if it's 1966 edition) but haven't actually read it, just, you know, leafed through it from ...

Book 78: I’ve been drawn for months to the ‘60s bestseller, Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (****), so I finally picked it up for my long-books category. It’s very retro, and reading it alongside current releases felt much the same as watching an old movie compared to today’s ...

... boxed set. Then therea re all those ones I read time and time again in my teens, which always make good comfort reading - Valley of the Dolls, Forever Amber etc. And I'd certainly agree with the OP about Middlemarch and probably quite a bit of Dickens too. At this rate I'm rather looking ...

The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Jake - lol My mother was horrified when she found out what Valley of the Dolls was about!

>20 Yes, yes, I know, I'm so bad! In fact...are you sitting down?...I've read Valley of the Dolls more than once!! Although I would agree that Peyton Place was better written than it is given credit for, to the point where I wondered at its not yet being included in more university courses ...

... popular fiction as Folio editions, as long as it was carefully selected. For example, I would welcome Peyton Place or Valley of the Dolls, both of which I enjoyed immensely as a kind of window to the past. True, they are rather lowbrow, but considering the scandal and buzz around them when ...

Not Valium, nor any of the medications that may have seemed at home in The Valley of the Dolls. Not helium, Mesothelium, Endothelium, any kind of epithelium, any bodily tissue, bosom, dorsum, Valium, any medication Not

... 24: Jane Eyre will be broadcast in four 60-minute episodes Valley of the Dolls will be broadcast in fifteen 15-minute episodes

... but she has never admitted to it. I do however, remember the look of horror on Mom's face when she found my stash of Valley of the Dolls, Once Is Not Enough and The Betsy!

... with Bond dropping his swim trunks and dragging some damsel into the cabana. My mother took two books away from me: Valley of the Dolls and Rosemary's Baby. I got them back and finished them, though, with the help of my older brother. I'm pretty sure I read Hotel in the Reader's D ...

... sensibilities. Others read for the first and only time such undisputed classics as "The Tempest", Great Expectations and Valley of the Dolls. And anyway, what's wrong with nostalgia? A book that makes a powerful impression on an unformed mind still might have something going for it in a ...

You're welcome, Kathleen. and welcome! Uath, I definitely snuck my mom's Valley of the Dolls, too. Hee hee. I've been on a writing jaunt, so have been absent, but it's nice to see so many new folks here. Hi jennieg! Hi Alan! Alan, have your read either of the Barak Obama books? I'm ...

... was reading. I openly read Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander--my mom's copy of the book. I also read my mom's copies of Valley of the Dolls, Coffee, Tea, or Me, and Hotel. I read most of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, but I think I was not quite as ...

I also read Valley of the Dolls which my parents would not have approved of. I read Hotel by Arthur Hailey when I was about 11 years old. It was a real eye-opener! edited for touchstone

... folks wandered off to discuss books that they read when they were young that described S-E-X. It reminded me of reading Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. If I think about it, I am sure there were others that I was hiding under the mattress. (Good thing my mother required that we ...

How about Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls? My parents would have had heart failure had they known at the time that I was reading that!

Do you want the suggestions to be limited to Britain 1930-1960? (e.g., Valley of the Dolls doesn't fit?) Interesting area--I'll do a bit of thinking.

I have not read Someone Like You, but I have read The Valley of the Dolls.

I just mooched a 30th anniversary edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God! And another 30th anniversary edition of Valley of the Dolls. I have had some very good luck! Though running rather low on bookmooch points...may have to list some of the viragos I haven't gotten on with lately. ;)

... or 12 I called my sister a "whore." I wasn't sure what it meant, but I knew it was something bad, because I'd been reading The Valley of the Dolls! My mother was likewise not amused.

Yes, I get it, thank you very much :)- I'm probably going to die. In'that special! I knew I should've picked Valley Of The Dolls. Thanks for your lovely interpretation guys!

The Scarlet Pimpernel Valley of the Dolls The Prisoner of Zenda The Good Earth Beau Geste Ben Hur Guadalcanal Diary Patton: Ordeal and Triumph - I'm pretty sure the Farago biography was the basis for the movie The French Connection Around the World in Eighty Days Chitt ...

... irestarter Those real (often slightly trashy) classics I read in my teens like Forever Amber, Gone With the Wind and Valley of the Dolls Then certain much-loved ones that I practicaly know by heart - The Steinbeck 'funnies' - (Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat) - Diana Gabaldon's 'Outl ...

... I remember my aunt and my cousins hiding and sharing Valley of the Dolls until the cover came apart. The Love Machine Valley of the Dolls Portnoy's Complaint The Godfather You Only Live Twice

Top five, in order: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Wayward Girls and Wicked Girls ed. by Angela Carter The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson (3 and 4 are probably tied as I enjoyed them both a lot in parts but though a few ...

I've just finished reading Valley of the Dolls and loved every minute of it; I was completely engrossed for four days and was even reading whilst I walked, which is something I NEVER do. Before that -in homage to Woolworths and its demise- I read and enjoyed both The Brontes Went to Woolworths ...

Valley of the Dolls by Jaqueline Susanne HA! snuck it out of my parents' bureau drawer to read eons ago

... (544pp) (*****) Something Happened# by Joseph Heller (569pp) (****) The Help# by Kathryn Stockett (464pp) (*****) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (442pp) (****) *I changed my criterion for "long" here from 500pp to 400pp ... wanted to create a little wiggle room in other ...

... Help# by Kathryn Stockett (*****) (See review) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (****) Artist Dates ABC3D by Marion Bataille (****) Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics# by Ina Garten (*****)

The Goddess Rules, by Clair Naylor The Cider House Rules, by John Irving A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Suann Lion in the Valley, by Elizabeth Peters

I keep thinking of Attack of the 50 foot woman but I don't think it is a book, just a film, so I am going to guess at Valley of the Dolls, which I have not read but the title always makes me think of the film.

Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson The Rake William F Buckley Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suzanne and also then we came to the end by Joshua Ferris which i reviewed here: www.autumnrouse.com

... that were considered "inappropriate" by some. I didn't desire to take drugs after reading Go Ask Alice or pop pills after Valley of the Dolls and I didn't sign up to be an airline steward seeking wild sex after reading Coffee, Tea, or Me.

... if in non-Virago editions. VMCs: The Thorn Birds, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Women's Room, Wuthering Heights, Valley of the Dolls, Lady Oracle, Heartburn, and Seventh Heaven. Your Virago Traveller is Beryl Markham's West with the Night. I think this is the right ...

The painted bird Jerczy Kosinsky Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann The dollmaker Harriet Arnow The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams The tin Drum Gunter Grass

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

In case anyone's interested... There are anniversary editions of Excellent Women and the Valley of the Dolls on Ebay.co.uk at the moment. Seller willing to send to America and Canada. I think that Excellent women was priced at £7.50 and Valley of the Dolls at £5.

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

I read Valley of the Dolls when it was new and probably still have a copy. There's a World Almanac in sight as I type. I wish my parents had read Dr. Spock even though I predate its first publication. A Message to Garcia was something of a catchphrase when I was a boy, and Elbert Hubbard ...

... achieved fame and fortune with this 1896 instructive religious treatise on moral dilemmas." 760 copies on LT 9. The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann "This tale of sex, violence, and drugs by Jacqueline Susann (1921-74), first published in 1966, is perhaps surprisingly the ...

... A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor, introduction by Elizabeth Jane Howard and cover design by Celia Birtwell. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, introduction by Julie Burchill and cover design by Barbara Hulanicki. A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark, introduction ...

Marise....same here! I read Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once is Not Enough when I was 17! That's 30 years ago! J. Susann did have a way with her pen and I suppose they were groundbreaking, I just don't think they fit in with Viragos - especially above the "Whipple Line"!

I read Valley of the Dolls, The Fixer, and Tai-Pan (also Sho-Gun). That indiscriminate teenage reader thing again - I wouldn't bother with any of them today. On the nonfiction side, In Cold Blood and A Thousand Days. A Thousand Days is the only one I still own.

I googled it and it is Valley of the Dolls...your line thekoolaidmom =)

The Valley of the Dolls, maybe? I have The Shadow of the Dolls book...

... trunks! What was that all about??!! A couple of years later, when I was maybe 12, my mother took both Rosemary's Baby and The Valley of the Dolls away from me, but my brother got them back so I could finish them! My mother read the Reader's Digest condensed books, her Bible, and had a ...

... of it. If it was salacious in its day, but of little merit otherwise, it's sure to be called a classic (see, I don't know, The Valley of the Dolls or Confessions of an English Opium Eater). #11 - ABVR - Those are good questions. To which I might add--Speaking of lost classics, what about ...

... by Choderlos De Laclos The Chocolate Lover's Club by Carole Matthews Anno Dracula by Kim Newman Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann Out by Natsuo Kirino Of course, when it comes to it, I might not feel like one of them at the time, but right now, ...

Just had a really nice long weekend - four days and so I've been on a binge and read: 6. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann - I always meant to read this and I'm really happy to have finally done so - this is the best trash fiction ever! I think this should be included in the 1001 list. ...

... Double Image was good, but then I liked all of Helen MacInnes' books--some I read more than once. I remember starting Valley of the Dolls and not being impressed, the same with The Adventurers.

... then protecting the wine. Tai-pan by James Clavell read most of his stuff King Rat is my favorite of his. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann a book that everone read back then but hid the cover from view. The Adventurers by Harold Robbins

I can claim only to have read Valley of the Dolls (a good airplane book) and heard of none of the other books, although I know some of the authors.

I was just in second grade when Valley of the Dolls came out and just beginning to read. I remember my aunt and cousin passing the book back and forth, which was a grown up book, not for me. I can still see the cover, though I've never read and probably won't ever read it. It was an interesting ...

These books are no longer big, but #1 was a big buzz in the U.S. when it came out. 1. Valley of the Dolls : a novel by Jacqueline Susann has 699 owners and 11 reviews. (roman a clef). Her biggest hit. 2. The Adventurers by Harold Robbins has 42 owners and 1 review. (About a So ...

... I read, and own. 2. Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann, owned by 91, no reviews. She is better known for Valley of the Dolls, owned by 680. 3. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, owned by 3,367, and reviewed by 24. Almost Science fiction, as it is about a SF ...

She left the Valley of the Dolls to reach The Snows of Kilimanjaro and became The Woman in White in the process but it was the best way to avoid the Faceless Killers. But she still died on The Magic Mountain.

I got two new books over the weekend: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

... very important to me. I also recall Rachel Carson's Silent Spring stunning me. And Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls was very much a must read for young women of the time although I think it was more about young women who were older than most baby boomers (those ...

... Kay Guide to Beauty, The Biblical Approach to Alcohol, and Jane Eyre. 5. trash: The Da Vinci Code. Runner-up: Valley of the Dolls. 6. rubbish : The Da Vinci Code. I sense a pattern here. 7. overrated: The Da Vinci Code. Incredibly (to me!), also used more than once to tag ...