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Indlæser... Lovers and gamblers (original 1977; udgave 1978)af Jackie Collins
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is a reissue of the 1977 edition. Al King is a rock singer and selfish stud extraordinaire. His brother and manager, Paul King, gets Al whatever he wants and boy does he want a lot. Dallas is a former hooker gone beauty queen/actress. Everyone wants a piece of her and she plays hardball like the best of them. Al and Dallas are destined to get together, but you have to wade through many pages to get there. The other characters are thrown in for good measure. As usual Jackie Collins gives us sex, drugs and rock and roll in the Hollywood/rock scene. It's been years since I read a Collins book and forgot how baudy and brash they were. Be that as it may, I couldn't put it down. If you want a wild read, this one's for you!! Al King is ’s werelds grootste popster en wil dat weten ook. Hoewel hij al jaren getrouwd is met Edna, is geen vrouw veilig voor hem. Dag en nacht liggen de fans aan zijn voeten. De langgeplande toernee van Al en zijn band brengt hem alleen maar meer succes. En dan komt hij Dallas tegen – de mooiste vrouw die hij ooit heeft gezien. Maar Dallas valt niet meteen voor Al; ze is ex-Miss Los Angeles en heeft het druk met haar eigen carrière. Er volgt een reeks gebeurtenissen, in Hollywood, Londen en de jungle van de Amazone, die zelfs Al niet meer in de hand heeft... ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A book that left burn marks on night tables across continents, 'Lovers And Gamblers 'has become a Collins classic. It features two of her most memorable characters: Al King, the rock-and-roll superstud who is everything any sex-crazed groupie ever imagined her hero to be; and Dallas, the beauty queen whose sky-high ambitions stem from a sordid secret--the type that tabloids tingle to tell. Together, they're on a wild ride from London to New York, from Hollywood to Rio and the steaming jungles of the Amazon--where all their dreams and nightmares are about to come true. No library descriptions found. |
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This one is about a singer superstar Al King, who is an absolute prick. He has a wife, Edna and a son Evan who he mostly neglects in favor of living the lavish on the road lifestyle of a 70s singer ala Tom Jones. All he's worried about is his next hit, his next lay that doesn't bore him, and getting his son laid. His brother Paul is his road manager and flunkie who also is cheating on his wife Melanie with Linda, a photographer that wants him full time in her life but he can't seem to say no to his brother.
Dallas is a freshly awarded beauty queen that comes from parents that abused her, neglected her education, and sold her off to a rapist. When she finally finds real intimacy said rapist becomes an attempted murderer. So having no education, she flees, whoring herself as far away from her parents as she can until it pays off and gives her a different life she never fathomed existed. Al sees her win her crown and becomes obsessed trying to bork her. Her agent Lew wants to smash too but hates her because she really isn't interested in dick.
Of course in real Collins fashion these two damaged people cross paths, shag, and go on a collision course of love and tragedy with a nice stellar supporting enabling cast of characters that will feed into their frenzy and help them down the steps of chaos, including, but not limited to, a nice plane crash in the jungle that adds a hundred more pages on to this novel than it should have which also leads to a rush ending with no true satisfaction. All the raunchy salacious sex in the world can't save the hack job of a bad ending.
This is a one and done. Sorely disappointed coming off of Lovehead, but maybe she had too much going on to give it the proper time with making the films The Bitch and The Stud. ( )