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

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I know! Threads would run for weeks with one post a day! My times have changed
Colleen is down the thread somewhere. That mini-series was such a gem

And there were about six poeple posting and probably three of them were tech!

I am 99% certain that at least four of them were Justine!

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Me too! that just leaves me and you who weren't... at least i know i'm not...

oops back to books, enough reminiscing about the starnge old days when nappy rash creams were novel...

Sorry Miss Gggl miss, sorry!
Do I get an amnesty on the grounds I remembered who wrote the Angelique series? That's all I do remember other than the dust jackets sported a magnificently bosomed Angelique...

The thornbirds, oh my, that takes me back! We were fifth formers sniggering over it I think, ditto Flowers in the Attic, what a terrible book that was. Snafu, me too re Jilly Cooper, I like her and admit to having read everything she's written!

Mills and Boons (she whispers.....) well I was 14.....

And very BIG HAIR a la Julie Christie in just about everything "period"...

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

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.

Valley of the Dolls
The Carpetbaggers
Virgin Soldiers

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

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?

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.)

Peyton Place is fab!!

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?

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.

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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

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..

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Were they the same as Sweet Valley High?