

The cake is delicious, the drugs are great, the cunnilingus is stellar, and it's all totally worth the terrible sacrifices you've made to arrive here today, despite the fact that you are clearly about to vomit yet again into the enormous pool. While all this is going on, you are thinking about how fat and old you've been getting, sipping from a decanter of single-malt scotch, and eating slice after slice of the most magnificent chocolate cake that has ever been baked. You've done about sixteen lines of coke and have popped a few jars of quaaludes, and a leathery, bronzed older gentleman with silvery hairs all over his chest and a visible tan line where his wedding ring usually sits is alternately giving you backrubs, lavishing you with glittering jewelry, and skillfully providing immense oral pleasure. Imagine you are lying in a silk-sheeted waterbed next to a vast swimming pool, smoking a ridiculously long cigarette, wearing an Italian bikini and extremely large, expensive hat, and you've just gotten the most gorgeous pedicure ever administered in human history.

Granted it's probably not for everyone, but I gotta tell you, this is seriously among THE MOST VASTLY ENTERTAINING books I have ever read in my life. She was fifty-six.If you haven't read this book, I suggest you quit dicking around on the internet and do absolutely whatever it takes to snag yourself a copy this instant. She was married to her husband, producer Irving Mansfield, until her death on September 21, 1974, after a courageously fought battle with breast cancer. Susann was the first author to have three consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, following Valley of the Dolls with The Love Machine and Once is Not Enough. Her debut novel, Valley of the Dolls, published in 1966, has sold over 31 million copies in thirty languages. Jacqueline Susann is a publishing and pop-culture legend. Buy this book with the Valley of the Dollsunlined notebook a super gift for any book-loving woman.

Never had a book been so frank about the female experience of sexuality, drugs and show business, making it both a deliciously mesmerizing pop culture touchstone and a 1960s feminist classic.

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann took the world by storm when it was first published in 1966, and has since sold over 31 million copies in thirty languages. 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. These three beautiful women become best friends when they are young and in New York, struggling to make their names in the entertainment industry. For Anne, Neely and Jennifer, it doesn’t matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. Dolls – red or black capsules or tablets washed down with vodka or swallowed straight.
