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Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it. Scruples was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. The New York Post said that "Scruples was born to be a smash bestseller. . . It has more inside information about the worlds of high fashion show more and Hollywood than you'd find in a dozen manuals." With Scruples, Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. she takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives. Scruples is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels. show lessTags
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A complete wish fulfillment fantasy of the first order. Super rich super beautiful super successful characters have all overcome some difficult early bumps to rise above the firmament and blaze through Beverley Hills. The sex is spaced out and mechanical and fairly crude, the c word is used more than I remembered or is now current. The best part are the little fictional bio-essays of some of the characters which discus aspects of the fashion or movie industries.
I first read this book in high school. What a scandalous pleasure it was. My best friend and I read portions to each other and giggled. At the time it was the height of naughtiness. I decided to read it again just for a trip down memory lane. The writing is kind of trashy, but I do like that several portions make more sense now that I'm older and know more places. Oh yes, and the smush is wonderful.
Read this years and years ago. I remember that I loved it and red it more than once. I think I was 15/16 at that time so reading all those books (Harold Robbins comes to mind) where you read about sex I devoured it.
So yes my taste has changed over the years, but for the above reasons I am giving this 5 stars.
So yes my taste has changed over the years, but for the above reasons I am giving this 5 stars.
It was okay. i read it a while back when I was a teenager. I enjoyed some parts of it, the girly parts, but wasn't expecting any sexuality in it. It was a disappointment, though. i thought it was much better.
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Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it.
Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it.
did not like. read only 2 pages
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Judith Krantz was born on January 9, 1929 in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1948. She was a fashion publicist in Paris in the late 1940s. She was the fashion editor for Good Housekeeping magazine, a contributing writer to McCall's magazine and Ladies' Home Journal, and the contributing West Coast editor of Cosmopolitan. Her show more first novel, Scruples, was published in 1978. Her other novels include Princess Daisy, Mistral's Daughter, I'll Take Manhattan, Till We Meet Again, The Jewels of Tessa Kent, and Lovers. Her autobiography, Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, was published in 2000. Although she did not publish her first book until she was 50, Krantz's 10 novels have together sold more than 85 million copies in more than 50 languages. Most of her books also became TV movies or mini-series, often produced by her husband, Steve Krantz. Because of her love for reading and writing, Krantz was an enthusiastic supporter of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and an active member of the Council of the Library Foundation. In 2014, she received the Light of Learning Award from the LFLA. In recognition of her many years of support, the Los Angeles Public Library named the Judith Krantz Fiction Collection in her honor. Judith Krantz passed away on 06/22/2019 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Scruples
- Original title
- Scruples
- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Wilhelmina Hunnewell Winthrop Ikehorn ("Billy"); Spider Elliot; Ellis Ikehorn; Valentine O'Neil; Vito Orsini; Dolly Moon
- Important places
- Beverly Hills, California, USA; Paris, France; New York, New York, USA; Bel Air; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Related movies
- Scruples (1980 | IMDb); Scruples (1981 | IMDb)
- First words
- In Beverly Hills only the infirm and senile do not drive their own cars. The local police are accustomed to odd combinations of vehicle and driver: the stately, nearsighted retired banker making an illegal left-hand turn in h... (show all)is Dino Ferrari, the teen-ager speeding to a tennis lesson in a fifty-five-thousand-dollar Rolls-Royce Corniche, the matronly civic leader blithely parking her bright red Jaguar at a bus stop.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
- Canonical LCC
- PS3561.R264
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- 883
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- Reviews
- 10
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- (3.47)
- Languages
- 11 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 61
- ASINs
- 10
