The Love Machine (Jacqueline Susann)
by Jacqueline Susann

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Book Review: Another great Classic Trash from Susann!
Summary: 5 Stars

Our leading man, Robin, is a cold blooded woman hater in the guise of a lover-boy. He methodically goes through women like kleenex. And our first leading lady, Amanda, is pathetic. She is a top model, beautiful and rich, and yet whines and simpers over Robin. She is obsessed with him and does everything she can to please him.

Maggie is a dark haired beauty, who marries for status and money to a man she finds out is abusive, but still doesn't leave the marriage. Instead, she has a one night stand with Robin, gets pregnant, and then leaves her marriage after her husband beats her to where she looses the baby. She also becomes obsessed with Robin and when meeting him again, even though he doesn't even remember her, she leaps back into his bed and thinks that he is going to be with her forever. Think again.

Judith is perhaps the most pathetic of all. She's fifty-ish, still beautiful, married to one of the most powerful men in Television Networking, and yet with everything she has she still feels that she is a poor little girl that deserves more. She also falls for Robin, and uses her power in the industry to try and manipulate him to her side. Not to mention getting a face lift to attract Robin while her husband recuperates from a heart attack.

The revelation about Robin's past would be tragic in any other scenario, but with Robin being such a miserable example of a man you just couldn't care less.

So why read this book? Just to enjoy yourself. Susann's trashy, campy novel develops full characters (even if they are unlikable) and sucks you into the fast pace and glamour of showbiz. Ethel, a side-line character, keeps the pace moving too with her own sexual entry into the glamour world, winding out as MRS SOMEBODY eventually. Dan, once at the top and barely more likeable than Robin, is interesting to follow through his own career ups and downs. Read it and enjoy!

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