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Sinners (1997)

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ISBN
006101253X (ISBN13: 9780061012532)
Language
English
Publisher
harpertorch

Sinners (1997) - Plot & Excerpts

It is amazing how much times have changed. Sending telegrams to congratulate your friend on an engagement. Nudity clauses in acting contracts. Sleeping your way to the top in Hollywood. And leaving it all behind, once you've met the right man. I can see how this would have been escapist entertainment in the 70s, but the women's roles, and the cliches, and the gender dynamics were very foreign to me as it was written before I was born. It was entertaining like a Jackie Collins book, but surprisingly dark when considering the attitudes and descriptions of the women.

I liked this but I like Jackie Collins - people either do or don't...I think her older books are usually better than the newer ones and I enjoyed this. A great bath-time read in the winter or beach read in the summer:)This was written before I was even born but it doesn't seem dated overall and it thankfully lacks the aggressive 'girl-power' tone that comes into her later books.Lots of money, bed-hopping and drama and of course, the worthy characters find each other in the end and live happily ever after. Sort of.

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I'm a bit dopey for not reviewing this as soon as I read it, because in the two months or so since I finished it, I've basically forgotten everything about it. Which probably says more about the book than my review could.Sinners tells the story of Sunday Simmons, a new and highly-rated Hollywood actress ("starlet" somehow seems too insubstantial a word for her), Charlie Brick, an aging comedy actor from London, and Herbert Lincoln Jefferson, a psycho who starts stalking Sunday. Of course - becau
—Sati Marie Frost

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