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Summary: HURRAY FOR JACKIE COLLINS!!!!!!! by M. Boucher
Review: An excellent trashy novel from the woman who has replaced the late Jackie Susann as «the» Hollywood author. You'll have a ball!
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Summary: Classic trash
Review: Classic trashy novel. Lets your imagination run wild. Interesting look at the way Hollywood and its female inhabitants live life in the "city of angeles." Plenty of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
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Summary: Not the best of JC
Review: Definitely this is not the best book of JC, as all the books you read about Hollywood is always the same, sex, sex and deceive your couple no matter what, many stories of these couples are the same as in the book American Star of the same author, the only good part of the book the the killer, but is a real small story of him. The book keeps rolling among the same story of deceive for each couple and that makes the read heavy and boring. The book could be written with many pages less and with more thrillers in each story as American Star or any book in the Lucky story.
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Summary: THOSE DESPERATE HOLLYWOOD WIVES
Review: Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for the ride of your life. Jackie Collins is in top form, delivering the ultimate Hollywood novel in which all suffer in the name of love (and happiness, of course). From the innocent but sexy ingenue to the unhappy used-up rich wife, HOLLYWOOD WIVES (1983) doesn't miss a beat in bringing you dishy accounts of the rich and famous. You'll have as much fun trying to put real names (that is if you're over 30) to the many characters as figuring out who's the narrative culprit behind the facade. Told with a sharp mind and a fast-paced style, Collins' tale is filled with romance, intrigue and suspense; a fabulously compelling fun read that never pretends to be anything more than what it is.-----Martin Boucher
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Summary: Fantasic page-turner
Review: Hollywood Wives is quite possibly the most ingenius novel since Valley of the Dolls. It's a page turner in every sense of the word--fascinating, exciting, juicy, trashy, and addicting.It definitely ranks as one of my all-time favorite novels. The author masterfully weaves various storylines together, culminating in a nailbiting conclusion, and she does it all with a tongue in cheek tone and unbearable suspense. I hope time is kind to this book, because it deserves a place in literary history. Highly Recommended, but be warned, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN!
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Summary: So, we've had Husbands, Wives and Kids....
Review: How about Hollywood animals? Kidding aside, I love these Hollywood series of books but I can not get into the Lucky series. I read one book but haven't picked up anymore in the series. I do recommend this book. Extremely entertaining. Very funny in some parts. I wonder if the wives are really as Jackie portrays them? It's funny. When I was putting faces to the characters while reading the book, I kept putting JOAN Collins face on everyone...ha ha. Enjoy this one.
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Summary: Was so great, I couldnt put it down
Review: I am an avid Danielle Steel reader, but I heard that Jackie Collins was a good writer, so I decided that I would give her a try, and I was NOT disapointed! It was such a good story, and it wasn't what i was used to, but it was great.
The book revolves around a bunch of different characters, and you feel like you know who the people are. You really connect with them.
First there is Elaine and Ross Conti, Ross is a movie star, that is getting older, and is afraid of loosing his career.
Then there is Buddy and Angel Hudson, Buddy aspirering star, and his new pregnant wife.
Then Maralee Gray, divoriced from producer Neil Gray, and Neil is remarried to a woman named Montana, writer of street people, the new movie.
It revolves around a man named Deke ANdrews and his troubled life, and you wont beleive what happens in the end
It is most surprizing. I loved it. I will be reading Jackie more often! i Love her !
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Summary: Not what I'm used to - but GREAT!
Review: I am an avid mystery or legal thriller reader and thought I would give something different a chance - and I am so glad that I did. This book was so entertaining and character development was outstanding - by the end of the book you feel as if you know these people and you really do want to know what is happening in their lives. The fast pacing and scene jumping in this book reminded me of a day time soap (which although I don't watch was fun to get into for a while). Bottom line: I don't care what type of literature you usually read - go out on a limb and give this book a chance - if anything you WILL be entertained.
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Summary: One of the Best Novels of All Time (Trashy or Otherwise)
Review: I have a degree in English literature, so I've read volumes and volumes of the best pieces of English litererature from the past 400 years. This juicy little novel by Jackie Collins ranks as one of my all-time favorites. While some may critics dismiss it as mere trash, you cannot deny the fascinating character portrayals and unexpected back stories that reminded me of Dickens at his best. The author masterfully weaves various storylines together, culminating in a nailbiting conclusion, and she does it all with a tongue in cheek tone. I hope time is kind to this book, because it deserves a place in literary history.
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Summary: I love this book
Review: I own a few of Jackie Collins' novels and "Hollywood Wives" is great. It's a peek inside what Hollywood is really like, affairs, drugs, murder, plastic surgery, etc. I love the Angel and Buddy characters. I also loved Elaine. I didn't like Gina Germaine, she kind of reminded me of an Anna Nicole Smith (...) All and all, I loved this book. Call it trashy, call it vulgar, but these kind of books are an escape from the real world.
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