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Descent from Xanadu
A TALE OF A FIERCE OBSESSION—IMMORTALITY.
Ruthless, unscrupulous, devastatingly handsome, and insatiable Judd Crane, the richest man in the world, has everything a man could want in an endless supply of money, women, power and sex. But despite his vast riches, he realizes that he cannot escape death.Determined to cheat death, Judd embarks on a dangerous path from Yugoslavia to China, from the sheltered paradise of his lush private island to a secret atomic city in the jungles of Brazil. Along the way, Judd will stop at nothing to find what he’s looking for—including chancing death, endangering his fortune, outmaneuvering foreign agents, and, ultimately, risking both his business empire and the woman he loves—until the very last second, when he discovers the mostvital secret of all.“Robbins brought four-letter words and kinky sex out of the dirty bookstore and onto the bedside table of mainstream America.” —USA Today
Ruthless, unscrupulous, devastatingly handsome, and insatiable Judd Crane, the richest man in the world, has everything a man could want in an endless supply of money, women, power and sex. But despite his vast riches, he realizes that he cannot escape death.Determined to cheat death, Judd embarks on a dangerous path from Yugoslavia to China, from the sheltered paradise of his lush private island to a secret atomic city in the jungles of Brazil. Along the way, Judd will stop at nothing to find what he’s looking for—including chancing death, endangering his fortune, outmaneuvering foreign agents, and, ultimately, risking both his business empire and the woman he loves—until the very last second, when he discovers the mostvital secret of all.“Robbins brought four-letter words and kinky sex out of the dirty bookstore and onto the bedside table of mainstream America.” —USA Today
381 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Harold Robbins
315 books437 followersBorn as Harold Rubin in New York City, he later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys home. In reality he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants. He was reared by his pharmacist father and stepmother in Brooklyn.
His first book, Never Love a Stranger (1948), caused controversy with its graphic sexuality. Publisher Pat Knopf reportedly bought Never Love a Stranger because "it was the first time he had ever read a book where on one page you'd have tears and on the next page you'd have a hard-on".
His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole, which starred Elvis Presley.
He would become arguably the world's bestselling author, publishing over 20 books which were translated into 32 languages and sold over 750 million copies. Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers, loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes, taking the reader from New York to California, from the prosperity of the aeronautical industry to the glamour of Hollywood.
His first book, Never Love a Stranger (1948), caused controversy with its graphic sexuality. Publisher Pat Knopf reportedly bought Never Love a Stranger because "it was the first time he had ever read a book where on one page you'd have tears and on the next page you'd have a hard-on".
His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole, which starred Elvis Presley.
He would become arguably the world's bestselling author, publishing over 20 books which were translated into 32 languages and sold over 750 million copies. Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers, loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes, taking the reader from New York to California, from the prosperity of the aeronautical industry to the glamour of Hollywood.
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September 14, 2021
Wow...misogyny, sexual deviancy, narcissism and some of the worst in mankind is put under a glaring spotlight - with NO respite- in this emotionally disturbing Robbins novel.
August 30, 2012
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 Descent from Xanadu on scrap paper:
__________
book: model on The Andromeda Strain but forget once in a while that you aren't writing erotica for personal use and shoehorn in some male fantasies and drug use.
plot: the quest of one man to live forever via injections/therapy/withholding orgasm and or release of life force(?). mostly science but also some stuff about meditation and indian yogis. the doctor who pioneered the research should be a sweet old lady with very, very tenuous links to nazis and their experiments. it should take place in the decadent(extra decadent!) 1970's and be crammed full of cold-war intrigue. worry about the details later. side story about a shifty asian guy who wants to deal in opium. maybe some spies go down to cuba to sell some secret codes and almost see a donkey show but then someone gets shot?? it should have no bearing on the rest of the story and the opium and asian guy will be forgotten. start the book with lots of humorously dated and misogynistic sex scenes but then have several chapters of dense faux-hard-science with no banging in sight....at some point go new agey and talk about chakras and life force, the main character should sleep under a glass pyramid and have a harem of teenage girls dressed in white. (note: Howard Hughes fantasy stuff if he wasn't afraid of germs) that won't last too long. maybe at some point the main character will sneak into Hughes' bedroom and see him in a coma? oh well, back to the spies and mercenaries!
hero: Judd. should be a mix of Bruce Wayne(ultra wealthy, private jets etc, head of a massive corporation his father left him), James Bond(studly, sophisticated but all action, women women women), with a dash of Howard Hughes(growing eccentricities given free reign because of endless wealth). Wants to live forever. Favorite snack/pastime is a snort of lab-quality cocaine("a toot") chased with a cherry coke. Has this several times a day.
sidekick: small black guy named Fast Eddie who is only referred to by his full nickname("Fast Eddie") and his appearance(black guy). ostensibly a right-hand man but his sole function is to provide drugs and cherry coke to Judd and speculate about random women. he wears a vial of cocaine on a gold chain around his neck. Fast Eddie is "old Roscoe's grandson"...Roscoe was Judd's father's right hand man. This whole relationship and history should embody an amusingly dated and vaguely racist view of white & black. (picture Fast Eddie wearing a red leather jacket; a quiet Eddie Murphy)
main chick: 30 year old woman- Sofia Ivancich. attractive eastern european blank slate. establish early in the book(before page 10) that she "is always wet" and later explain that she has a "psychological" problem she wants to solve: she gets turned on instantly, all the time, the result being multiple orgasms. apparently this male fantasy is unwanted and it opens the door to lots of private jet sex with drugs between her and Judd- also some sexy time with a female stewardess but who knows what lesbians do with each other so it will just get mentioned in passing. she begins as a sex object and possible spy but gets less sexy and more boring and matronly as the book progresses. also, this astoundingly bizarre scene: Sofia needs to be snuck out of a Japanese hospital so they perform cosmetic procedures and apply makeup to make her look like a black woman. a giggling Japanese nurse will recommend buying "ass falsies" at Frederick's of Hollywood because "Black girls' asses have a bigger shelf that makes them move differently." cut to Fast Eddie, who approves. Really.
the last few chapters should gel into a breakneck plot jumble about nuclear facilities and the kidnapping of a character who has only been mentioned twice. also there's the indian yogi guy again and a secret document is recorded onto a reel from a supercomputer. it's a race against the clock!
this book is gonna be great.
__________
All in all this was fun and occasionally weird, when I wasn't faintly bored by the pages and pages of business talk/empire building. It's an odd time capsule of 80's beach reading that veers often into action and sex(like older brother The Pirate) and even leads you to think it might dabble with sci-fi..but misfires. Compared to The Pirate, Descent seems cramped and almost sloppy- not written as badly as it seems written hastily. Harold Robbins clearly wrote with zeal and enthusiasm, but I imagine him getting sidetracked by his own fantasies and tiring out after sating them...only to come raring back four chapters later. Action! Science! Sex! Administrative meetings. Anticlimactic flashbacks. Opulent lifestyle stuff. Drugs! Action! Sex! and so on.
I feel like I'm coming off as harsh, but it's not exactly a good book. It's a FUN book and I may even read it again in a few years. Can you say that about many recent pulp paperbacks?
long review:
This is how I imagine Harold Robbins outlined Descent from Xanadu on scrap paper:
__________
book: model on The Andromeda Strain but forget once in a while that you aren't writing erotica for personal use and shoehorn in some male fantasies and drug use.
plot: the quest of one man to live forever via injections/therapy/withholding orgasm and or release of life force(?). mostly science but also some stuff about meditation and indian yogis. the doctor who pioneered the research should be a sweet old lady with very, very tenuous links to nazis and their experiments. it should take place in the decadent(extra decadent!) 1970's and be crammed full of cold-war intrigue. worry about the details later. side story about a shifty asian guy who wants to deal in opium. maybe some spies go down to cuba to sell some secret codes and almost see a donkey show but then someone gets shot?? it should have no bearing on the rest of the story and the opium and asian guy will be forgotten. start the book with lots of humorously dated and misogynistic sex scenes but then have several chapters of dense faux-hard-science with no banging in sight....at some point go new agey and talk about chakras and life force, the main character should sleep under a glass pyramid and have a harem of teenage girls dressed in white. (note: Howard Hughes fantasy stuff if he wasn't afraid of germs) that won't last too long. maybe at some point the main character will sneak into Hughes' bedroom and see him in a coma? oh well, back to the spies and mercenaries!
hero: Judd. should be a mix of Bruce Wayne(ultra wealthy, private jets etc, head of a massive corporation his father left him), James Bond(studly, sophisticated but all action, women women women), with a dash of Howard Hughes(growing eccentricities given free reign because of endless wealth). Wants to live forever. Favorite snack/pastime is a snort of lab-quality cocaine("a toot") chased with a cherry coke. Has this several times a day.
sidekick: small black guy named Fast Eddie who is only referred to by his full nickname("Fast Eddie") and his appearance(black guy). ostensibly a right-hand man but his sole function is to provide drugs and cherry coke to Judd and speculate about random women. he wears a vial of cocaine on a gold chain around his neck. Fast Eddie is "old Roscoe's grandson"...Roscoe was Judd's father's right hand man. This whole relationship and history should embody an amusingly dated and vaguely racist view of white & black. (picture Fast Eddie wearing a red leather jacket; a quiet Eddie Murphy)
main chick: 30 year old woman- Sofia Ivancich. attractive eastern european blank slate. establish early in the book(before page 10) that she "is always wet" and later explain that she has a "psychological" problem she wants to solve: she gets turned on instantly, all the time, the result being multiple orgasms. apparently this male fantasy is unwanted and it opens the door to lots of private jet sex with drugs between her and Judd- also some sexy time with a female stewardess but who knows what lesbians do with each other so it will just get mentioned in passing. she begins as a sex object and possible spy but gets less sexy and more boring and matronly as the book progresses. also, this astoundingly bizarre scene: Sofia needs to be snuck out of a Japanese hospital so they perform cosmetic procedures and apply makeup to make her look like a black woman. a giggling Japanese nurse will recommend buying "ass falsies" at Frederick's of Hollywood because "Black girls' asses have a bigger shelf that makes them move differently." cut to Fast Eddie, who approves. Really.
the last few chapters should gel into a breakneck plot jumble about nuclear facilities and the kidnapping of a character who has only been mentioned twice. also there's the indian yogi guy again and a secret document is recorded onto a reel from a supercomputer. it's a race against the clock!
this book is gonna be great.
__________
All in all this was fun and occasionally weird, when I wasn't faintly bored by the pages and pages of business talk/empire building. It's an odd time capsule of 80's beach reading that veers often into action and sex(like older brother The Pirate) and even leads you to think it might dabble with sci-fi..but misfires. Compared to The Pirate, Descent seems cramped and almost sloppy- not written as badly as it seems written hastily. Harold Robbins clearly wrote with zeal and enthusiasm, but I imagine him getting sidetracked by his own fantasies and tiring out after sating them...only to come raring back four chapters later. Action! Science! Sex! Administrative meetings. Anticlimactic flashbacks. Opulent lifestyle stuff. Drugs! Action! Sex! and so on.
I feel like I'm coming off as harsh, but it's not exactly a good book. It's a FUN book and I may even read it again in a few years. Can you say that about many recent pulp paperbacks?
January 25, 2023
A real Robbins protagonist in this one: he's a busy businessman who only does business. Everyone else is thinking too small, he has time only for his grand and secret agenda and his laundry list of sexual hangups and disfunctions. What does our hero strive for while forsaking all other pursuits? Nothing less than immortality. Will he learn anything along the way? Allegedly.
Unfortunately, this is another Robbins venture where any semblance of a typical plot is sidelined in favor of the psychology of the Great Man. Not even the psychology though, because we mostly observe him through the wake he cuts through the world, and even that is really only measured in endless scenes of people being surprised at what he's getting up to next. More often than not, what he's doing next is coke. Jeez there's a lot of causal snorting going on. Is it a thematic element, a genre convention, or is it merely that Robbins was a successful man in the 80s?
Everything is permitted our hero by merit of his Greatness and Wealth and Power. This is Robbins's take on a "what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul" narrative, but by the ending it's clear that Robbins has no answers to offer, just a string of lines, bumps, and hits.
Unfortunately, this is another Robbins venture where any semblance of a typical plot is sidelined in favor of the psychology of the Great Man. Not even the psychology though, because we mostly observe him through the wake he cuts through the world, and even that is really only measured in endless scenes of people being surprised at what he's getting up to next. More often than not, what he's doing next is coke. Jeez there's a lot of causal snorting going on. Is it a thematic element, a genre convention, or is it merely that Robbins was a successful man in the 80s?
Everything is permitted our hero by merit of his Greatness and Wealth and Power. This is Robbins's take on a "what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul" narrative, but by the ending it's clear that Robbins has no answers to offer, just a string of lines, bumps, and hits.
July 30, 2024
Team this book was the worst I’ve read this year. It made no sense and was so unenjoyable for no reason. Literally my stubborn view on quitting books is all the kept me going and I finally have to admit defeat. Why suffer for something that isn’t important and is written by a crazy man. Anyways there goes two weeks of my life FOR WHAT.
June 27, 2013
Just read it, you will enjoy.
February 11, 2015
I'm abandoning Harold Robbins for good.
The beauty of enjoying cheesy books is that, when you're not liking them, you can easily replace them by another cheesy book.
The beauty of enjoying cheesy books is that, when you're not liking them, you can easily replace them by another cheesy book.
September 6, 2011
Este es uno de esos libros que se leen a escondidas. Me lo llevé a un Vips y de repente, encontré que la gente notaba (con distintas y variadas expreisiones) en la portada como una modelo ochentera se tapaba los senos con una manita. El sexo abunda, así como los chispazos sardónicos que se avienta el personaje u otros que están alrededor de él.
Judd Crane es un billonario que gasta toda su lana en buscar la inmortalidad. Maneja sus negocios (que son tan variados como sea lo que necesite en el momento) desde un avión personal (cierta reminiscencia a Cosmopolis de Don DeLillo, donde el yuppie maneja todo desde su limosina. Siempre en movimiento.)
Los personajes no dejan de meterse cocaína para volverse una especie de súper hombres: más rápidos, más atentos, más precisos, más aguantadores y con más ganas de coger. Judd Crane suele tomar coca cola con tantito polvo porque, bueno, según esto estaba tratando de tomar coca cola como en la fórmula original.
El primer libro es un festival de excesos. El segundo libro transcurre tres años después y Judd Crane me dio la impresión que se transformaba en una especie de Steve Jobs. Su búsqueda se transforma en un culto, sus oficinas se vuelven minimalistas, blancas y más limpias. La transformación -con todo y lo chafón que el libro pueda ser o... deba ser en apariencia-, del personaje me pareció muy interesante.
Sólo que los demás personajes que orbitan alrededor de Crane funcionan simplemente como circunstancias.
Al final, podemos decir que este libro es un placer culposo. Algo para entretenerse un par de horas o unos días.
Judd Crane es un billonario que gasta toda su lana en buscar la inmortalidad. Maneja sus negocios (que son tan variados como sea lo que necesite en el momento) desde un avión personal (cierta reminiscencia a Cosmopolis de Don DeLillo, donde el yuppie maneja todo desde su limosina. Siempre en movimiento.)
Los personajes no dejan de meterse cocaína para volverse una especie de súper hombres: más rápidos, más atentos, más precisos, más aguantadores y con más ganas de coger. Judd Crane suele tomar coca cola con tantito polvo porque, bueno, según esto estaba tratando de tomar coca cola como en la fórmula original.
El primer libro es un festival de excesos. El segundo libro transcurre tres años después y Judd Crane me dio la impresión que se transformaba en una especie de Steve Jobs. Su búsqueda se transforma en un culto, sus oficinas se vuelven minimalistas, blancas y más limpias. La transformación -con todo y lo chafón que el libro pueda ser o... deba ser en apariencia-, del personaje me pareció muy interesante.
Sólo que los demás personajes que orbitan alrededor de Crane funcionan simplemente como circunstancias.
Al final, podemos decir que este libro es un placer culposo. Algo para entretenerse un par de horas o unos días.
September 14, 2012
The storyline and characters for this book would have been brilliant, if not for Robbins' terribly cheesy "erotic scenes". He could have expanded upon Judd's search for immortality and taken us across the world. He could have come up with some fascinating science fiction, business/political conspiracies, and shown us more of Judd's character development.
But no. He did not. While all of the above was present to an extent, it was much weaker than it could have been.
The erotic scenes did not help the plot or the characters at all - they were just there. You could completely skip over them and not miss a beat of the main storyline (which was skimpier than it could have been, referring to the points made earlier). But due to the great non-erotic aspects, it's worth at least 2-3 stars. Probably 2, but I'm generous (hence the 3).
February 2, 2007
A powerful man's search for inmortality
November 4, 2013
embarrassingly trashy fun
October 17, 2011
Tried to stay with it! Read half way through and just couldn't finish it! Had some very erotic parts, but just did not have much of a storyline for me.
November 20, 2012
I didn't get it... .??
January 18, 2024
Este es otro de los libros que leí totalmente a ciegas. Lo compré porque tenía en el título a Xanadú y me recordó a Ciudadano Kane, una de mis películas favoritas. No leí la sinopsis antes de leerlo y creo que fue un acierto.
Es importante decir que no tiene nada que ver con la película, aunque, su protagonista me recuerda un poco al creado por Orson Wells. Sobre la historia, se ambienta en la guerra fría y seguimos la ambición del hombre más rico del mundo para ser inmortal; en su búsqueda da con una científica rusa que vive en Yugoslavia que va bastante avanzada en el campo de la clonación celular -un proyecto que desarrolló por orden de Hittler-. El problema es que Crane es objeto de interés para el gobierno ruso por su cercanía e influencia en la política americana y también tienen bastante interés por hacerse con las notas del proyecto de longevidad.
El libro es corto y se lee muy rápido. El protagonista, Judd Crane, es un hombre totalmente reprochable, moralmente gris, misógino e insoportable; pero totalmente creíble y necesario para la historia; un personaje creado siguiendo los patrones de realidad y coherencia. Para mí el mayor punto fuerte de la historia. En cuanto a Sofía que vendría a ser una de las ayudantes de la doctora y super importante para el desarrollo de la trama, es un personaje femenino fuerte, ambivalente, ambiciosa y decidida. Ella hará lo que sea necesario para sobrevivir. Aprovecha y honra su sexualidad sin caer en la venta de su cuerpo.
El libro está plagado de escenas de acción muy bien ejecutadas, de personajes bien construidos y escenas muy bien documentadas.
Algo que me falló y por eso al final no son 5 estrellas es que de momentos se hacía pesado. Y las últimas 20 páginas me parecieron demasiado rápidas dejándome con varias incógnitas, resolviendo el problema de fondo de manera veloz e inconclusa.
Es importante decir que no tiene nada que ver con la película, aunque, su protagonista me recuerda un poco al creado por Orson Wells. Sobre la historia, se ambienta en la guerra fría y seguimos la ambición del hombre más rico del mundo para ser inmortal; en su búsqueda da con una científica rusa que vive en Yugoslavia que va bastante avanzada en el campo de la clonación celular -un proyecto que desarrolló por orden de Hittler-. El problema es que Crane es objeto de interés para el gobierno ruso por su cercanía e influencia en la política americana y también tienen bastante interés por hacerse con las notas del proyecto de longevidad.
El libro es corto y se lee muy rápido. El protagonista, Judd Crane, es un hombre totalmente reprochable, moralmente gris, misógino e insoportable; pero totalmente creíble y necesario para la historia; un personaje creado siguiendo los patrones de realidad y coherencia. Para mí el mayor punto fuerte de la historia. En cuanto a Sofía que vendría a ser una de las ayudantes de la doctora y super importante para el desarrollo de la trama, es un personaje femenino fuerte, ambivalente, ambiciosa y decidida. Ella hará lo que sea necesario para sobrevivir. Aprovecha y honra su sexualidad sin caer en la venta de su cuerpo.
El libro está plagado de escenas de acción muy bien ejecutadas, de personajes bien construidos y escenas muy bien documentadas.
Algo que me falló y por eso al final no son 5 estrellas es que de momentos se hacía pesado. Y las últimas 20 páginas me parecieron demasiado rápidas dejándome con varias incógnitas, resolviendo el problema de fondo de manera veloz e inconclusa.
March 3, 2020
Judged on its own terms, this book is awful. It has no redeeming qualities, not even as entertainment. I expected a trashy thriller - but I just got bored and disappointed.
The author Harold Robbins was once one of the top bestsellers in the world, with novels like THE CARPETBAGGERS - lurid tales about money, power and sex - daydreams of wordly success and excess.
Robbins tried to live as excessively as his fictional characters - and he used a lot of drugs. Incidentally, the rich protagonist in DESCENT FROM XANADU has two obsessions: finding immortality and cocaine...
Sounds like a thriller, right? Only it isn't.
Turns out the tycoon protagonist's drug habit is actually more important than becoming immortal. The plot literally stops in its tracks many times because he has to score cocaine.
The only friend (sort of) he has is his dealer. Seriously.
After a seemingly endless number of cocaine stops, the novel dimly recalls that the plot was supposed to be about a guy who tries to become immortal. It makes a mad rush for the ending, stumbles and falls flat on its face on the final page.
This is what happens when a writer's personal hangups (in this case drugs) are allowed to completely take over the narrative, without being questioned or challenged.
Readers: Avoid DESCENT FROM XANADU.
Writers: Read and learn. (And stay away from cocaine! )
If you do want a good trashy 80s read, try Jackie Collins instead.
The author Harold Robbins was once one of the top bestsellers in the world, with novels like THE CARPETBAGGERS - lurid tales about money, power and sex - daydreams of wordly success and excess.
Robbins tried to live as excessively as his fictional characters - and he used a lot of drugs. Incidentally, the rich protagonist in DESCENT FROM XANADU has two obsessions: finding immortality and cocaine...
Sounds like a thriller, right? Only it isn't.
Turns out the tycoon protagonist's drug habit is actually more important than becoming immortal. The plot literally stops in its tracks many times because he has to score cocaine.
The only friend (sort of) he has is his dealer. Seriously.
After a seemingly endless number of cocaine stops, the novel dimly recalls that the plot was supposed to be about a guy who tries to become immortal. It makes a mad rush for the ending, stumbles and falls flat on its face on the final page.
This is what happens when a writer's personal hangups (in this case drugs) are allowed to completely take over the narrative, without being questioned or challenged.
Readers: Avoid DESCENT FROM XANADU.
Writers: Read and learn. (And stay away from cocaine! )
If you do want a good trashy 80s read, try Jackie Collins instead.
November 3, 2018
Het hele boek viel erg tegen. Er zit een hoop onnodige erotica in, alsof de schrijver in ieder hoofdstuk iets van seks erin moet schrijven om het interessant te houden. Vooral de houding van Judd tegenover vrouwen (een speeltje dat je kan gebruiken wanneer je wilt) is niet meer van deze tijd. De rest is ook erg ongeloofwaardig en eindigt teleurstellend.
July 18, 2017
Awsome reading
I love Harold Robbins. He is one of my favorite. Authors.I love his books. They are so well written. I was devastated at his passing many years ago. But I still read his books. And he is still alive to me in his writings.
I love Harold Robbins. He is one of my favorite. Authors.I love his books. They are so well written. I was devastated at his passing many years ago. But I still read his books. And he is still alive to me in his writings.
June 21, 2018
Excellent read
Remember reading this when I was young and really enjoyed it and still did this time unable to put down
Remember reading this when I was young and really enjoyed it and still did this time unable to put down
September 20, 2018
Hated this book- hard to follow at times and the characters were very unlike able
October 11, 2018
Uhm. No comment
March 7, 2020
Rails of elite cool, lust, coke, and intrigue galore. And, at the heart of it all: deception, love, the vanity of becoming, and the haunting spectacle of death that lingers just down the road.
September 11, 2020
Read in 1984. Richest man in the world seeks the answer to eternal life.
May 21, 2024
This was so bad I gave up a third of the way through. I can only assume based on the text that Harold Robbins never met a woman. And if he did ever meet one, I can only offer them my condolences.
June 5, 2025
the story was about finding eternal life.
January 16, 2017
I didn't finish this book. I read 80 pages and gave up. The raunchy bits were the only interesting bits in it. It was boring.
September 10, 2016
It is fun to read something from the 1980's occasionally.
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