Glorious trash novels

You may find this thread of interest.

I was from the Peyton Place generation.

So tepid in comparison to the hot juicy 70s stuff.

I devoured Celebrity.

Loved ‘em all!

I loved them too, along with VC Andrew’s’ page-turners.

OP again! I got "Hollywood Husbands" from the library and am thrilling to the sexcapades of characters with names like "Jack Python" and "Mannon Cable." Jackie Collins seems to have gotten her character names from the back of 1980s gay porn VHS tapes.

There's a failed movie actress of a certain age who reinvents herself as the hottest soap star in America — but it can't POSSIBLY be Joan Collins because "Silver Anderson" is a DAYTIME soap star. Oh, Jackie, you minx!

I had to share this passage with DL trash novel lovers:

[quote]The Businessman's breathing was laboured. Beneath his trousers Silver saw proof of his excitement. Without moving from the couch and without taking his eyes off the two call-girls, he urged Silver to lift her skirt.

[quote]To her shame she knew she would do anything he asked. So while the women writhed together on the floor, Silver Anderson lifted her skirt, removed her panties, spread her legs, and allowed The Businessman to mount her and take his ride of perverted passion.

[quote]When it was over, she felt dirty and humiliated. She was Silver Anderson, not some cheap tramp to be taken and used in front of whores.

I *LOVED* "The Other Side of Midnight"!! I picked it up as a teen because there wasn't anything else around to read and I never put it down until I finished it. I felt SO GROWN UP after reading it.

Silver Anderson must be the spiritual mother to Wow Platinum.

I love trash novels! I also like trashy biographical novels. If you like music industry dish, then I recommend "I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie" by Pamela Des Barres. Tawdry and gossipy from cover to end.

"You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again"

I can further attest that "Silver Anderson" is NOT Joan Collins, because Joan got involved with a mercenary ski bum named Peter Holm, while Silver gets involved with a mercenary SURF bum named Wes Money.

Forever Amber.

Once Is Not Enough by Jaquline Suzzane. That's a trashy but oh so good book. The movie was just ok. Mr, Goidbar is another, but violent.

"Looking for Mr. Goodbar" is trash (like all the best trash) with some literary flourishes. The psychological profile of Theresa Dunn and the description of the impact of her childhood polio and year-long hospitalization as a 12-year-old are astute. Like many here, I discovered this novel in my mom's collection at age 13 or so and read it in secret, under the covers. So many decades later, I still remember the first line of her Creative Writing professor's (who becomes her first lover) comment on her brief but intriguing piece of writing: "I doubt that you are an artist for you follow instructions too well."