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Moondog's naff books that we've all read thread

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ggglimpopo · 25/04/2005 09:52

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Nemo1977 · 27/04/2005 12:17

also agrree on flowers in the attic and all judy blume books...lol

mummytosteven · 27/04/2005 12:14

any true crime stuff by Ann Rule

The Group by Mary Mccarthy

Forever by Judy Blume

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Marina · 25/04/2005 15:14

ladies, so sorry to have ruined it for you...towards the end of her life Joan Lindsay fessed up that it was all a figment of her imagination. She even wrote a "missing" chapter explaining what happened, but I had outgrown my teenage dreamer phase by then and never tracked it down. Irma, Miranda, Miss Whatsername, all entirely fictitious.

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ggglimpopo · 25/04/2005 15:07

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ggglimpopo · 25/04/2005 15:06

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motherinferior · 25/04/2005 15:04

Was it a hoax? Have I missed something????

Marina · 25/04/2005 14:55

snap Moondog!

Marina · 25/04/2005 14:54

gggl, I remember that film and the book, so well. Very clever and atmospheric. Even though it was unmasked by the writer as a literary hoax some years later I still can't shake off the "whatever happened to them" feeling.
Dominic Guard in spats didn't come close to the young Mel Gibson for me though, however bizarre the casting.

moondog · 25/04/2005 14:54

God,that film enthralled me ggg. Thought it was true for years and years.
(Natch I know the story of the baby who disappeared at Uluru (Ayers' Rock) inside out..)

moondog · 25/04/2005 14:52

Got to work out which that is now..
Yes,an earier incarnation of SVH I think.

GhostofNatt · 25/04/2005 14:51

Were they the same as Sweet Valley High?

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ggglimpopo · 25/04/2005 14:50

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moondog · 25/04/2005 14:49

Not HSD was it ggg??!
Just remembered those Sweetheart Romances for adolescent girls that appeared in the early 80s. At least they got people reading I suppose..

GhostofNatt · 25/04/2005 14:46

I really can't believe they filmed that, Marina - may have to try and get a copy on ebay or somewhere. Mel Gibson? The mind boggles

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ggglimpopo · 25/04/2005 14:43

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Marina · 25/04/2005 14:41

If you mean "Tim", touchingly filmed with Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie, then yes she did, GhostofNatt!
Jeffrey Archer! Agh! I had deleted him from my crap reads memory cache.

GhostofNatt · 25/04/2005 14:33

Gah, had forgotten the yetchy sex scenes in the cave bears. Did that Thornbirds woman also write a disturbing romance about an older woman and a staggeringly goodlooking retarded boy?

moondog · 25/04/2005 14:30

Peyton Place is fab!!

moondog · 25/04/2005 14:29

Gaaaah!!! Every time my fingers are poised to start typing, someone steals my thunder with a new offering.
Harold Robbins!!! Was once 'dedormed' (how Mallory Towers is that??) for being caught reading one of his tomes in the bog with another girl at boarding school.

I have a not so secret weakness for 'true crime'. Shiny black paperbacks with titles like 'She must have known' and 'The girl who was bound and kept prisoner under the bed of a po' white trash couple from Louisiana for 37 years.'
Also those 'victim' autobiographies ('The Kid' and so on.Haven't yet weakened and bought one by Dave bloody Peltzer or whatever he's called but it is surely only a matter of time.)

Prufrock · 25/04/2005 14:18

I recently bought the whole Jalna series from various second hand booksites for my Mums birthday - she was thrilled.
I read clan of the cave bear- all of them. A lovely colleauge of dh's gave them to me when i was pregnant with dd - she said they wouldn't take much brain power - boy was she right. But wierdly page turning. Except the sex scenes - how many times can one woman experience "Pleasures"?

And is no-one else going to admit to reading Jaffrey Archer?

Cam · 25/04/2005 14:16

Valley of the Dolls
The Carpetbaggers
Virgin Soldiers

All "borrowed" from my father's bedside cabinet in the 60's

Marina · 25/04/2005 13:59

Definitely. you have only to see the 80s style slap on "historic" drama for that period!
There is a very sixties Victorian look as epitomised by Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene in The Forsyte Saga.

GhostofNatt · 25/04/2005 12:53

I've always wondered whether to the sixties / seventies eye the mascara abnd big hair were sort of invisible, so much part of the prevailing style that they weren't seen as being (wrong) period? So maybe we will look back at "period" daramas and jacket covers from now and spot things that are nineties / noughties that we can't really "see" now? hmmm