a rags to riches story with loads of drama,scandals,sex etc etc thrown in.Tycoon tells the story of jack lear rise to power and also tells the parallel story of his family and some people connected to him.i did not like many things in the story and found many instances morally and ethically wrong...
This is one of the funniest books I have ever read in my life. Unintended by the writer. The story is of the rise to power of an auto company and the family of the founder. The real humor begins in the "modern era" sections of the tale. 1971, when this was written... The mighty American car compa...
This book, although written by his ex-wife and a ghost-writer after his death, is typical Harold Robbins -- a steamy, interesting dramatic novel, firmly rooted in events of the day. This one starts in Russia in the mid-forties and concludes in British Honduras in the 1970's; following the protag...
I bought The Carpetbaggers in a shop down the street selling used books. The funny part is that I had never noticed that shop, nor am I famous for buying used books (I prefer to have my own personal copy rather than someone else's old one). However as I was walking minding my own business this bo...
In the world of priceless art, greed and egos collide-- anything goes, at any price The world of priceless art is a playground for billionaires, a rarefied atmosphere even more privileged and ruthless than owning a champion race horse or a sports team. Money and ego have turned the quest for a...
Robbins was a total genius. I remember thinking this when I first read "A Stone for Danny Fisher" when I was a teenager. Now all these years later, reading a book originally published in the 70's, here I am again. "Fifty Shades of Gray"...are you kidding me? Robbins could write better sex scenes ...
I don't even know what to say. This was...an experience. Being a huge Fawlty Towers fangirl, I've always wanted to try a book by Harold Robbins. Basil's disparaging comments were more than enough to arouse my curiosity re: this prolific author of glittery, trashy schlock. And boy howdy, Janet...
It's really not necessary to read anything Harold Robbins wrote after WHERE LOVE HAS GONE (1962), and that includes the over-inflated sex saga THE ADVENTURERS, published in 1966. By 1969, when THE INHERITORS was published, Harold Robbins had become the world's bestselling novelist. Unfortunatel...
I forgot Harold Robbins !My Mom was a Constant Reader, as are all her children and grandchildren. Her Mother worked at a Drug Store, and always kept us stocked with every kind of reading material, from the latest Comics to the Best-selling Novels of the moment. I must have been 9 or 10 when I had...
Started this last night. Read "The Carpetbaggers" back in the summer of 1962. HR retains his yarn-spinning skills in this sequel which already looks much like the life of Howard Hughes - just like the first book. Undercutting the enjoyment of the story is the ridiculously pornographic and male do...
c1949. Supposedly loosely based on his own experiences whilst working in Hollywood - I really enjoyed this book. The Encyclopedia Brittanica has the following to say about Mr Robbins,'Orphaned at birth, Robbins was placed in a Roman Catholic orphanage and was given the name Francis Kane. He was r...
I happened to find a rather old copy of this book in our bookshelf back home and picked it up because I wanted something rather small and light to read on a flight. After I finished it (it did not take too long) I think I'm going to categorise it as an in-flight book. It is small and light, as me...
Como toda buena novela negra comienza con un trágico final para devolver la línea de tiempo al inicio de los acontecimientos. El autor es una de las grandes expresiones de los best sellers de los años 50, coincidiendo con la época dorada hollywoodense del género, llevándose varias de sus novelas ...
The Adventurers is a sprawling epic filled with sex, violence, political intrigue, more sex, more violence, and, amazingly after 800 pages, detestable one-dimensional characters.I loved every page. The Adventurers is excelencia.If I've done my math correctly a reader should be able to enjoy an er...
I've read A Stone for Danny Fisher several times over decades. When I was a kid growing up in Danny's Brooklyn I enjoyed the references to places and things and people I knew. I also enjoyed the sexy parts, though they were done more by inference and euphemism than the explicit language we're use...
tl;dr review: don't read this for the sex, you'll be bored out of your mind trying to find 'the good bits'. read it because it's funny, and when you're done imagine how it would have been different had it been written by Michael Crichton. long review: This is how I imagine Harold Robbins outlined...
A tale from master storyteller Harold Robbins ...Marja starts out a tough girl from the mean streets of New York. Ambitious and driven, over time she rises from street urchin to stripper, later re-inventing herself as Maryann Flood, the queen of an empire of pleasure. From her posh Park Avenue of...
THE LONELY LADY by Harold Robbins is another paperback I’d picked up from a library sale. It’s, I think, the 5th novel of his I've read in the past year or two and for sheer guilty pleasure it ranks second to The Carpetbaggers in enjoyment. Absent from this novel are the long passages of endless ...
Harold Robbins once said, "For me, the goal is always to make the page disappear and speak to my reader face to face as each character comes to life."The 1962 novel that rocked Hollywood to its core is finally back in print. Ripped from the headlines, Where Love Has Gone is inspired by the real-l...
Harold Robbins captivated millions of readers with his searing bestseller The Betsy, a saga of violent ambition and passion in the auto industry. In this breathtaking, long-awaited sequel, the struggle continues in all its naked fury. Previously published by Simon & Schuster.
When Harold Robbins’ Never Love a Stranger was published in 1948, it became a bestseller. Robbins hit upon a winning combination of elements to draw readers into his story, that he would go on to repeat multiple times in the future. “Power, sex, deceit, and wealth: the four main ingredients to a ...
They hired a babysitter and took her to the Tiki Room at the Fairmont Hotel, her choice for an eighteenth birthday dinner, to discuss the proposal. She had gotten to know—and like—both of them, but had to admit that the two were not only strange animals by Modesto standard...
My cock felt as if it were floating in warm oil. She leaned forward so that her breasts touched mine and kissed me. Now she was sliding across me, the pressure of her pubis harder against me. I felt her go over the wall as another orgasm shuddered through her. “Oh, lover,” she said. I held her fa...
I still had half a hard-on so I turned my back to the child and grabbed for my pants. Alma spoke to her daughter angrily. “I told you never to follow me!” “I didn’t follow you, Mama,” Angela said quietly. “I just wanted to tell you that the guard in the hall is dead.” “You were watching televisio...
I said. The man sitting across from me wasn’t buying it. He was a police detective, with the dour, cynical view of life that big-city cops get. “You’re in deep shit.” It was the second time he had characterized my situation that way. I was in an interrogation room in a police station on Centre St...
the police captain told me. Sitting in the backseat of a police car on my way to Luxor’s police headquarters, I was numb. De Santis was dead. “But they took nothing.” I hardly recognized the voice as my own. The killers had left immediately after shooting him. It happened that fast. My ears were ...