Conran’s last name comes from her brief marriage to Terrence Conran, of the British Crate-and-Barrel precursor the Conran Shop. I recommend this on the strength of my good friend and trash expert Sarah Hughes. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.” Representative quote: “What is normal? Normal is only ordinary mediocre. In the woods there’s a beautiful boy living with his amputee mother who knows the real story of the First Audrina’s death. Andrews is not Flowers - even the later books in the series, which are far weirder than the first - but rather My Sweet Audrina, in which a seven-year-old with a serious brain-fog problem is raised to replace a dead elder sister. Rinse, repeat, forget completely about afterwards, but then you will finally have read one of her novels like probably half of the American population and it will have been a relatively painless experiment.Ī lot of people I solicited for input on this list said, “Oh, Flowers in the Attic, of course,” but this choice flagged them to me as rank amateurs in the matter of V.C.
Along the way one of her kids gets super-spoiled. Then she marries rich, then watches as the fortune crumbles with the Great Depression.
She is a poor ballerina in France for awhile, then marries a soldier who dies. Possibly the one actually kind of interesting Steel novel, it follows a minor member of the Romanov family to exile in America. “Now go shove it into Allison MacKenzie,” she screamed at him. “Oh, yes.” Without another word, Betty jackknifed her knees, pushed Rodney away from her, clicked the lock on the door and was outside of the car. “Is it up good and hard?” “Oh, yes,” he whispered, almost unable to speak. Best scene: “Is it up, Rod?” she panted, undulating her body under his. Grace Metalious’s 1956 classic of love, sex, and domestic violence in a tiny New England Hamlet was so scandalous that it was banned in Rhode Island. These books aren’t perfect, but each has some kind of hook - either unexpectedly good construction, entertainingly inventive salaciousness, or historical import in and of itself. Here are 40 of the greatest trashy books written in the last hundred years that, if you’re not looking for perfect prose, will surely decrease muscle tension over a weekend, or on vacation. Relaxation is one keeping up with what everyone else is reading is another. But there are a lot of reasons to read other than intellectual elevation. First things first: the history of the novel is already tangled up with the notion of “trash.” Peruse the great 19th-century realist novels - particularly Jane Austen’s, say - and you’ll catch characters insulting each other’s reading habits.
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