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The author of the bestselling Special Topics in Calamity Physics recommends a few titles full of adventure.
The Love Machine By Jacqueline Susann 416 pages. Grove Press. $14.95.
The Love Machine
by Jacqueline Susann
“Susann’s prose is splashy, melodramatic—like a slumber party on steroids—but also retro, wide-eyed, and fun.”
Five years ago in Heathrow Airport, I decided to read Jacqueline Susann. But the bookstore had sold out of Valley of the Dolls. All they had was The Love Machine. I’d never heard of it, but bought it and it was delight at first sight. Susann’s prose is splashy, melodramatic—like a slumber party on steroids—but also retro, wide-eyed, and fun. Here you find characters named Robin Stone and Danton Miller. Money isn’t money. It’s loot. Powerful men call each other buddy boy and girls shout through their tears, “I don’t want to go to college! I want to act!” It’s fabulous. And so very very very.
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