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Valley of the Dolls

By: Jacqueline Susann
Narrated by: Laverne Cox
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Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet set.

Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when it was first published 50 years ago. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. It is often cited as the best-selling novel of all time.

Dolls - red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight. For Anne, Neely and Jennifer, it doesn't matter as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three beautiful women become best friends when they are young and in New York, struggling to make their names in the entertainment industry.

Only when they reach the peak of their careers do they find there's nowhere left to go but down - to the Valley of the Dolls.

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Critic Reviews

"About the most fun you can have without a prescription!" (Julie Burchill)

"Much imitated, but never bettered." (Daily Telegraph)

"Decades ahead of its time.... Mesmerizing.... The equation of emotional dependencies with drug addiction in one comprehensive personality disorder is, if anything, more chic today." (Village Voice)

"Jackie, it seemed, understood by instinct that her readers were ready for the raw side of love...for a franker sexuality and a tougher kind of story - for romance with tears and oral sex." (Michael Korda, The New Yorker)

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Still stands after all these years.

Laverne Cox is the perfect narrator for this classic. And Kudos to her for seemlessly reading out some of the more dated (cringe worthy) language in the text. Must have been a challenge. x

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One of my Fav Books - Narration is painful

This is one of my fav books and I was so looking forward to having this on audio book however as much as I love Laverne Cox as an actor she was not the right narrator for this story at all.

Was painful at times to listen to.

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The narrators voice did my head in !

Basically I loved it.
The narrators voice took me a while to get used to.
I have read it myself many times, it’s a classic.
Well worth a read.

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aweful narrator

completey ruined a great book...her voice was so irritating I had to stop listening

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Really wanted to read this

Much as I like the narrator's voice, some of the main characters 'voices' were beyond silly. I think this is my problem as I thought it would be a funny and racy story but it was not to be (for me). Incredibly long and incredibly boring. Could not finish...

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