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A review by kenbooky
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
5.0
PEARL CLUTCHERS BEWARE ⚠️
Considered one of the most salacious reads of the century, V.O.T.Ds follows the story arch of generationally wealthy sheepish secretary Anne Welles, the talented up and comer who can’t seem to keep her hands out of the pill jar Neely O’ Hara, and the talentless if not for her rocking bod Jennifer North, as the girls navigate New York’s entertainment industry. Work by day, club scenes by night, climbing the ladder sure gets exhausting and all that partying seems to come at a price. Red pills to make you sleep, green pills to make you skinny, and yellow pills for god knows what. I loved how poignant the drug talk was. Everything women weren’t supposed to think, feel, or say all laid out as if a manual to someone’s younger self. Watching the movie now and I am happy that the ending is far different from the suffering Anne would choose to endure in Susann’s novel.
Considered one of the most salacious reads of the century, V.O.T.Ds follows the story arch of generationally wealthy sheepish secretary Anne Welles, the talented up and comer who can’t seem to keep her hands out of the pill jar Neely O’ Hara, and the talentless if not for her rocking bod Jennifer North, as the girls navigate New York’s entertainment industry. Work by day, club scenes by night, climbing the ladder sure gets exhausting and all that partying seems to come at a price. Red pills to make you sleep, green pills to make you skinny, and yellow pills for god knows what. I loved how poignant the drug talk was. Everything women weren’t supposed to think, feel, or say all laid out as if a manual to someone’s younger self. Watching the movie now and I am happy that the ending is far different from the suffering Anne would choose to endure in Susann’s novel.