Reviews

The Fan Club by Irving Wallace

em_beddedinbooks's review

4.0

Four men from different walks of life meet in a bar. They find that they are united by their admiration for the actress Sharon Fields, who started as a small B grade actor and later achieved prominence. Their admiration turns to obsession, especially to the master mind Mallone. Slowly they come out with plans to kidnap her, hold her captive for a week, and make her willing to have a physical relationship with each. But plans never go smooth; after kidnapping and imprisoning her, Shively, the most ruthless of all, can't wait for her to acquise. What follows is a chillingly deplorable story of abuse, and how one woman, considered to be a beauty without brains, in spite of her captivity and physical abuse, tries and succeeds to escape from the abusers using psychological rather than physical warfare. The book does contain mature adult content and is fraught with violence of words and action, and is definitely not for the faint hearted.

isismaestradl's review

3.0

La narrativa en mi copia (una traducción del original) era tremendamente repetitiva. Quería pegarme un tiro cada vez que la frase "se le antojaba..." aparecía.
El concepto del libro me atrajo, pero me parece que te lo venden mal. No sé dónde leí que era un libro de amor, y puedo asegurar que el libro tiene todo menos amor.
Además, las descripciones. A algunas personas les encantan las descripciones, pero estas eran innecesarias. Te describían lo que comían (color, fecha de caducidad, sabor).
No fue un libro malo, pero no será mi favorito por mucho.