Valley of the Dolls

Happy Dance!!! This is my first Book Club Monday! Yay! So I think I am going to set a date of one month to read the books I pick. It could be longer or shorter depending on the length of the book. So this Book Club Monday timeline will probably be a month because the pick is a long one. The first Book Club Monday selection is...Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann.

Valley of the Dolls was published in 1966 and quickly became a huge hit on the best seller list. This is her most famous book. It was even made into a movie which stared Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, and Barbara Parkins. The movie is the reason I wanted to read the book. It wasn't a great movie but it was interesting enough to want to read the book. Plus I have heard from people that have read the book that it is much better than the movie.

Here is the Amazon.com review: Sex and drugs and shlock and more--Jacqueline Susann's addictively entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages, but--alas!--she's still a writer for our times.

So tonight I start reading. Next Monday I will update what I have read and what I think to that point.