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A review by spavento
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
3.0
RIP Jacqueline Susann, you would’ve had a lot to say about Ozempic. It’s a nice read, goes on a bit too long, but it’s pretty focused in its interests and ideas which I appreciated. It also helped me ‘get’ the appeal of books set in a particular time or industry. I really felt like I was getting a behind the scenes look at Hollywood and its adjacencies in the 50s and 60s. The review on the back calling it “The Sexiest Novel of All Time” is dead dead dead dead wrong, but I blame that on publishers not knowing how to market books for, by, and about women.