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3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Lace is quite the time capsule. Luxuriously over the top, wildly fucked up and absorbing, darker and more complicated than I expected. I wasn't a fan of certain elements and depictions but I kept in mind that it's a product of its time in both style and content. The women are well drawn, flawed, strong, determined, and they all love each other fiercely. I can see why this sold millions of copies and became a scandalous touchstone forty years ago.
I read this book at arnd 12 years of age and loved it! Great book.
i read this when i was a child which should have not happened lol. idk what to say about this book other than it's fucked up and has too much weird racism and slut shaming
I was informed at a young age that I was named Pascale after one of the characters in this book (Maxine Pascale) and I remember watching the mini-series not long after this declaration, so when I ran into this in the bookstore I thought what the hell, might as well read it!
I did quite enjoy this although I found it to be quite stereotypical 80s in some respects cough cough the sexy mustache and dominereeing yet sexy males to say the least. Wasn't too invested in some of the characters and felt that by skipping through years some development was missed.
Super unrealistic storylines but all in all I quite enjoyed, will be picking up the sequel and watching the miniseries again.
I did quite enjoy this although I found it to be quite stereotypical 80s in some respects cough cough the sexy mustache and dominereeing yet sexy males to say the least. Wasn't too invested in some of the characters and felt that by skipping through years some development was missed.
Super unrealistic storylines but all in all I quite enjoyed, will be picking up the sequel and watching the miniseries again.
It really does all revolve around that classic line: “Which one of you bitches is my mother?” but Shirley Conran nevertheless manages to spin it out over 750 very readable pages.
It’s full of sex (at times weird/horrible sex) and glamour and sisterhood and it’s compulsively enjoyable stuff. Not hard to see why it’s still in print after 40 years.
It’s full of sex (at times weird/horrible sex) and glamour and sisterhood and it’s compulsively enjoyable stuff. Not hard to see why it’s still in print after 40 years.
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Bloody uncomfortable book at times - even in the first few pages. Outdated and romanticised, and think it could make an excellent modernised tv series, but a bit painful at times to read.
slow-paced
Book #11- 2024
Title: Lace
Series: Lace (Book 1 of 2)
Author: Shirley Conran
Pages: 619
Started: 17/06/2024
Finished: 11/07/2024
Days: 25
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I’m not sure I’ve ever felt relief once I’ve finished a book before! This was a long, drawn out story that felt like it was never going to end. It follows the lives of Maxine, Judy, Kate & Pagan from their teenage years, through to their forty’s. It also follows Lili, who wants to know who her birth mother is. The story starts in the present and quickly moves to the past; the majority of the past storyline I found to be irrelevant to the concept of the actual story. The book is written in eleven parts but there is no real notion of who or when that part represents. There is no consistency to the timeline, it is all over the place and felt very chaotic. Fortunately, the answer to the question is revealed at the end and I will not be looking for book number 2 to read.
I definitely put this novel in the "gaggle of girls" fiction genre. It rates with Mary McCarthy's The Group, Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything, and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, with McCarthy's being the most superior in terms of writing.
Lace is far more salacious than the others, at times even pornographic, but I suppose it was a mark of that era's sensibilities (late 70's, early 80's).
It's enjoyable though, like Sex & the City-the European Version meets Penthouse Letters.
Lace is far more salacious than the others, at times even pornographic, but I suppose it was a mark of that era's sensibilities (late 70's, early 80's).
It's enjoyable though, like Sex & the City-the European Version meets Penthouse Letters.