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Insatiable Appetites
By:Madonne M. Miner
Published on 1984 by Greenwood

The women's bestseller has become the acknowledged literary phenomenon of the last half-century. Madonne M. Miner takes the first critical look at this development and offers a serious reading of five of the most famous twentieth-century women's bestsellers--Gone with the Wind, Forever Amber, Peyton Place, Valley of the Dolls, and Scruples. She outlines repeated plot structures, image patterns, and thematic concerns. From these Miner constructs a twentieth-century white middle-class American woman's story, suggests ways in which female readers respond to women's bestsellers, and proposes a matrilineal linkage between the novels.

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Don't you sort of hate how we've joined the decadent period of Goodreads whereby probably fifty per cent (or more) of the reviews written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are actually bare and unabashed within their variously powerful attempts at being posture, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you type of wood (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's happy druthers) for the nice ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were uniformly plainspoke Don't you type of loathe how we have joined the decadent period of Goodreads whereby perhaps fifty per cent (or more) of the reviews written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now bare and unabashed in their variously efficient attempts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Do not you sort of wood (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were uniformly plainspoken, just practical, unpretentious, and -- above all else -- dull, boring, dull? Do not you kind of hate when people state'don't you think in this manner or feel this way'in an attempt to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to accepting using them? In the language of ABBA: I actually do, I really do, I do(, I really do, I do). Well, because the interwebs is really a world in which the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we could revisit days gone by in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at least until this website finally tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's report on Macbeth in its entirety. I've destined it with a heavy rope and drawn it here for the perusal. (Please realize that many a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its really complicated and stupid! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that guide is great! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a review written in among the witch's comments or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal shout unleashed into the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of exactly the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies he designs problems... that will be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it had been meant to be read, then it would be a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for each character for a couple pages). None of us had browse the play before. None of us wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the author and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to see a play you then have sinned and are going to hell, if you rely on hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I'm also tired of whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of an email overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age once we are taught to respect each other's differences, it appears offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow for your petty linguistic rules. Artsy concept will certainly free themselves however you are attempting to be able to shackle it. Which is ones cue, Aubrey. 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I love your useless greedy at similes of which are not able to tactic your bilious hate inside your heart. You are acquire, plus My business is yours. Figuratively chatting, associated with course. And from now on and here is the evaluate: Macbeth by William Shakespeare is the foremost fictional deliver the results while in the English vocabulary, and anybody who disagrees is undoubtedly an asshole as well as a dumbhead.