tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post8978689665071532300..comments2024-03-27T17:14:54.791-05:00Comments on Glorious Trash: The BetsyJoe Kenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-75274899533227112052017-06-13T04:14:39.025-05:002017-06-13T04:14:39.025-05:00I think like James Hadley Chase, the books of Haro...I think like James Hadley Chase, the books of Harold Robbins can be divided into two piles - the super-trashy and the ones not quite so. Titles like The Betsy, The Storyteller and The Pirate will clearly get to the first section! Incidentally, The Pirate doesn't even have a semblance of a story - The Betsy at least does. The second pile would consist of his Never Love a Stranger, Where Mohan Santhanamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05084709836661127355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-32967622448561057402015-03-03T22:19:31.824-06:002015-03-03T22:19:31.824-06:00It was a simpler, more innocent time, in which peo...It was a simpler, more innocent time, in which people were more easily scandalised and more people read books! Growing up in the 1980s, I hadn’t heard of Harold Robbins until he was mentioned in an episode of <i>Fawlty Towers</i>.Felicity Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983958177951363405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-57543204497551489462012-10-30T09:45:20.245-05:002012-10-30T09:45:20.245-05:00I'm aware of that Fifty Shades of Gray, but it...I'm aware of that Fifty Shades of Gray, but it seems to me to have more in common with that "Belladonna" novel I reviewed here the other year. In other words, it lacks the weird fire that burns so brightly in the work of Harold Robbins...I still find it mind-boggling that such gloriously perverted stuff was so popular in its day...and the numbers of Robbins's books sold dwarfedJoe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-4329865215587567792012-10-27T09:40:17.666-05:002012-10-27T09:40:17.666-05:00oh come now, obviously you haven't seen the be...oh come now, obviously you haven't seen the best seller lists recently! FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY, which I haven't read, evidently features plenty of S and M, although I don't believe there's any water sports.English Teacher Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16566898470803597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-77509015392985828432012-10-09T10:43:03.631-05:002012-10-09T10:43:03.631-05:00Thanks everyone for the comments.
Martin: Funny y...Thanks everyone for the comments.<br /><br />Martin: Funny you remember the bathtub incident from this book. I know you've also read the follow-up, The Stallion, and I look forward to reading it myself. By the way, you should read your copy of "Rich Dreams" by the Barzmans; finally read my copy...took it with me on vacation to London last week and read it, and it's very much aJoe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-52199335781055454962012-10-07T15:32:53.560-05:002012-10-07T15:32:53.560-05:00"If you’ve read one Robbins you’ve read them ..."If you’ve read one Robbins you’ve read them all"<br />Quote of the dayTim Mayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16191899859528990414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-18777102403366252292012-10-06T01:27:34.228-05:002012-10-06T01:27:34.228-05:00What kind of godless garbage is this you're re...What kind of godless garbage is this you're reviewing? That book excerpt was disgusting... I have to find this book immediately!<br /><br />Thanks for a great blog, I love finding out about forgotten cultural relics. I hope you write for a long time! I'm subscribed, of course.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14758930973501813422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-34481206691429650262012-10-03T13:24:18.108-05:002012-10-03T13:24:18.108-05:00Good review, Joe. I read every book by Harold Robb...Good review, Joe. I read every book by Harold Robbins and his contemporary Irving Wallace. Robbins was a radical writer who didn't care what the puritans in fiction thought about his books. He had dedicated fans all over the world, including India, and that was because he wrote in a language they understood instantly. If I'm right the American pulp fiction industry never gave Robbins his Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-61518526562056152952012-10-01T12:07:52.699-05:002012-10-01T12:07:52.699-05:00Cool review! Yes, the bathtub thingy is the only ...Cool review! Yes, the bathtub thingy is the only thing I remember from this novel. So I concour, Robbins is indeed an ace at sex scenes, but little at everything else. Still, from a trashy point of view, one could do worse. On second thought, maybe not.Authorfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01626566458666454127noreply@blogger.com