Princess Daisy |
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Author:
Judith Krantz
By Bantam
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List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $4.79
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Product Description
She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealthy. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Women envied her. Daisy's life was a fairy tale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. Then, suddenly, the fairy tale ended. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing--except the secret she guarded from the day she was born.
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Princess Daisy, 2008-05-02
This is a great book. I actually bought this copy to replace the old paperback I've had for years, it had so much wear and I just love it so much I wanted a hardcover. I can read this book over, and over....And have!
Would have been twice as good were it half as long., 2005-12-12
This book was a diverting "guilty" pleasure to read. (I never liked that expression because I never feel guilty about reading trashy novels.) However, it really didn't need to be as long as it was. The thing that added all the unnecessary length was Krantz's insistence on giving us pages of background information on characters who are completely tangential to the plot. We get all kinds of introductions to and sex scenes between characters who simply do not matter. The book is supposed to be about Princess Daisy, based on the title, but her story only takes up 2/3 of it.
I like Krantz's writing style, because it's wildly over the top and often makes me laugh. However, she does have a tendency to just run on and on about things once she's already made her point. In the interest of NOT following in her footsteps, I will end this review.
A CLASS ACT, 2005-07-21
Princess Margaret Alexandrovna Valensky, AKA Daisy, has it all: loving parents, a title preceding her name and money that grows on trees--until tragedy strikes. Before you can say, oh here we go again, Daisy's charmed life is turned upside down when she is forced to face a painful past... and an unsure future. Judith Krantz's fans can rest easy; the author's second outing after the megahit Scruples is a winner. PRINCESS DAISY is a compelling yarn of the rich and rotten, jam-packed with beautiful people, lavish settings, designer clothes and plenty of skin. Daisy and friends are an exciting bunch of characters; unidimensional, perhaps, but fun. Their world of champagne and caviar is a celebrated experience no matter what. Yes, Krantz spreads it thick on the over-the-top scale, but who cares. The novel works. It is as grand and as sinful as those secrets her heroine so desperately wants to hide. Go on, indulge, for PRINCESS DAISY is classy stuff in escapism fiction.-----Martin Boucher
This was painful to read!, 2003-06-25
I have always loved Judith Krantz's work and have read just about everything she has written. Sadly, I had to force myself to finish this tome. The characters are flat and bland, and the story is just plain uninteresting. It was a total waste of time and money. You want to read great Krantz, read Mistral's Daughter, Scruples I & II, I'll take Manhattan (especially juicy) or the Jewels of Tessa Kent.
Thank god for the cover, 2003-04-30
It came as no small relief when I finally got to the end of this book. I think I would have preferred having bowel surgery in the woods with a stick than even contemplating reading this. The only remotely interesting thing to do is to laugh at the disastrous writing style. At one point there is about have a page describing Daisy's lips. All very well but we do all already know what lips look like. Perhaps the most depressing thing is the characterisation, you either have the good character: Daisy, or somebody else. It is painfully obvious that Judith Krantz has little or no writing talent but us simply copying someone else's style, for them for it painted an artful picture, for her it is a whole lot of uselss adjectives.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553256093
ISBN: 0553256092
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 1984-12-01
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: 1984-11-01
Studio: Bantam |
