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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: "Riders" was the first Jilly Cooper I read and after that I was hooked. You become caught up in the lives of the characters, who come to life through Jilly's sparkling writing. After reading this book I became fascinated with upper-class English life, and I found the show-jumping theme really interesting even though I am not a horsey person. The best thing is that all the main characters appear again in at least some of the five sequels, with "Rivals" having a great love story involving Rupert Campbell-Black. Jilly Cooper is the best in her genre, and "Riders" is one of her best.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: "Riders" was the first Jilly Cooper I read and after that I was hooked. You become caught up in the lives of the characters, who come to life through Jilly's sparkling writing. After reading this book I became fascinated with upper-class English life, and I found the show-jumping theme really interesting even though I am not a horsey person. The best thing is that all the main characters appear again in at least some of the five sequels, with "Rivals" having a great love story involving Rupert Campbell-Black. Jilly Cooper is the best in her genre, and "Riders" is one of her best.
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Summary: You'll want to read this book again and again.
Review: 'Riders' is a fantastic read no matter if you've read it one or one hundred times. With every turn of a page you'll fall deeper into this wickedly funny world of showjumping horses and heroes, whether you're a horse enthusiast or not. Vengeful loathing, intense competition, unbridaled passion, and a marvelous opportunity to laugh out loud...Jilly Cooper has corraled some of the best ingredients to create a fabulous must read book!
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Summary: Left me saddle sore
Review: And aching. The book was overly long, the characters were simply too unbelievable, the dialogue was flowery, on the whole it lacked imagination and the sex scenes were flaccid in the extreme.Jilly remains the voice of sex starved, deprived and frigid, middle-aged middle England. Go out there, ladies, and get a man!
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Summary: sex, horses, and very British
Review: Attention all Anglophiles! Riders is one book in the saga of life with the horsey set. Jilly Cooper is utterly addictive and keeps you reading for more. Have you ever started reading a really great book and gone into a complete panic over the thought that this is the only book this author has ever written, and you are destined to live your life searching for other books as good? -- that's what I mean when I say "READ IT"
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Summary: Fabulous, Fun and Utterly Entertaining
Review: Captivating... Jilly Cooper brings Ruppert, Jake, Billy, and Fen among others to life...they and their horses seem to literally walk off the pages. More than just for horsey people though...it is a real delight. You will laugh, cry and laugh some more. Sexy and glamourous, it is truly a winner.
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Summary: Fab
Review: Every romance novelist should take lessons from Jilly Cooper: 1.She does her research (finally!). Riders is the first of five novels to date, and is an extremely detailed (and accurate) description of the show world. She is equally thorough in her subsequent books, tackling, among other things, polo and the classical music world. 2. She creates complex, unpredictable, and compelling characters and doesn't mire herself with the stereotypical beautiful, smart, innocent virgins and violent, troubled (but just waiting for the right woman to come along) men. Her characters get spots and worry about shaving their legs...thank God. 3. She doesn't write by formula. Her following books are just as good (Polo is my personal favorite), but refreshingly deal with vastly different subjects. The characters she introduces in Riders continue to reappear and establish a wonderful sense of continuity and forethought- a fact which ultimately makes her books read as though they were one (massive) work, plots unrecycled from romance to romance. 4. She's really funny in that (in)famous biting English way- subject matter aside, she's reminiscent of Bill Bryson, albeit less uptight (she is after all writing romances...). Really a fantastic read.
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Summary: Why Not A Movie of This Great Novel?
Review: Every year before I drag out my boots and dust off my saddle (barrel racing) I reread Riders! It is one of my favorite books and I love the fact that it is long and involved. I even enjoyed the way Jilly depicted us Americans. She is so correct in her knowledge of the horsey set and their clique. Of course Rupert Campbell-Black comes to Kentucky to look for his horses! I keep waiting for somebody in Hollywood to wake up and make the movie (I'm afraid if it were made in England we'd never see it!) I'm waiting for the sequel, Jilly.
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Summary: An excellent read
Review: I actually found Jilly Cooper by reading books by Fiona Walker(who is brilliant by the way). Jilly's books are a little hard to come by, but boy am I glad I searched...soooo worth it. Riders was a great read...don't let the length of the book intimidate you...you'll fly through it...You are with the characters through so much and for such a span of years..that by the end...you really feel as if you know them. I definitely recommend this book..also, go out and get Fiona Walker's books as well!! French Relations and Well Groomed( In that order) are my favorites of the bunch.
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Summary: We need a sequel of this book!
Review: I have read this book about ten times and have loved it more each time. I loved every equestrian moment. I would love to see part II of this book! (Hint Hint)
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