Players

Rating:
Summary: A Definite Re-Read
Review: I adore this book! In fact, I have purchased several copies because everyone who borrows a copy claims to have returned it.

Players (Rivals in Great Britain) is full of amazingly quirky people. They are always broke, regardles of how much money they have. They smoke and drink too much and fall into bed too often, ususally with the WRONG person.

Jilly Cooper creates characters that I would love to know! They are witty, passionate and ring very true. The fully-drawn characers cover the social strata of contemporary Great Britain. As Margaret Mitchel made all of her peripheral characters interesting in "Gone With the Wind" so too does Jilly Cooper.

Buy this book. Devour it. Don't lend it out.

Rating:
Summary: A Definite Re-Read
Review: I adore this book! In fact, I have purchased several copies because everyone who borrows a copy claims to have returned it.

Players (Rivals in Great Britain) is full of amazingly quirky people. They are always broke, regardles of how much money they have. They smoke and drink too much and fall into bed too often, ususally with the WRONG person.

Jilly Cooper creates characters that I would love to know! They are witty, passionate and ring very true. The fully-drawn characers cover the social strata of contemporary Great Britain. As Margaret Mitchel made all of her peripheral characters interesting in "Gone With the Wind" so too does Jilly Cooper.

Buy this book. Devour it. Don't lend it out.

Rating:
Summary: Sequel to "Riders", also published as "Rivals"
Review: Note that this book was published in the UK under the name "Rivals." I loved it. It was as much fun as "Riders" and Rupert Campbell Black the businessman was more attractive than ever.

Rating:
Summary: If you liked Riders, you will like Players!
Review: Players continues on where Riders left off. Rupert Cambell Black is back and is trying to buy a t.v. station. Fun to read to find out what happened to that group after Riders. Does not have Fen, Jake. or Tory in it. Even if you just read Riders for the horses, you will probably like Players.

Rating:
Summary: one star is being kind
Review: Remember the Monty Python skit about "upper class twits"? Well, those made the characters in this book look like Mensa members. Actually, there are no characters here, just caricatures. I grasp that this is supposed to be some kind of "fun, trashy read" but that is no excuse for sacrificing plot entirely. By the time I read 50 pages, I still didn't know what this book was about. I'm not entirely sure the author did either. I got the feeling that she just kept putting description after description of beautiful people, intermixed with the occasional bawdy joke in front of her until she filled up the designated number of pages to qualify it for a "book."

Do you like people screaming at each other constantly about totally minor matters? A huge cast that is gorgeous and rich but not in the least intriguing? Children who pitch a fit when they can't watch porn? Then you are going to LOVE this book!

Apparently, this book is a bestseller in Britian. Obviously, there is a culture gap here. A big one.