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I TAKE IT BACK, GO BACK TO FUCKING THE HOUSE!

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3560655#cmt3560655)

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Re: Books

[(Anonymous)]

Grandmother bought me a Jilly Cooper (well, I suspect she regifted it), feels like a glimpse into an alien world, wtf is this shit... 0_0

Re: Books

[(Anonymous)]

I was also confused by the characters' weirdly low salaries, but finally realised it was because book's set some 40 years ago, oops.

Re: Books

[(Anonymous)]

So far it's just gross people fucking on every page.

Re: Books

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I can do it. This thing is some 700 pages. I'm 50 pages in and it's just boring people being limply catty and banging each other, and even that sounds more exciting than it is.

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still trying to inch my way through this thing. Currently some 200 pages in? It's still 700 damn pages, argh. Goes much like this:

"My job is so hard," moaned the housekeeper.

"I know something else that gets hard," said Rupert Campbell-Black. All the women giggled. He was so witty and his oiled body was so attractive.

*I want him,* thought Cameron Cook, in her ballbusting jacket with the shoulderpads. Behind them, Tony Baddingham glared over his wife's shoulder, seeing his mistress gaze adoringly on the attractive, oiled body of Campbell-Black. On the other side of the room, from behind a Christmas tree some students had jokily decked in condoms, Sarah Stratton was also glaring, also at Rupert. How dare he ignore her! But she couldn't say anything because her husband was right there, as bloody always. They all sat down, and she had to settle for scowling in silence as Rupert fingered her under the table. She was lucky that, on her other side, her husband was too sulky to contemplate doing the same.

"This blancmange is wonderfully soft!" said Monica Baddigham, wishing she could be listening to the opera instead.

"But I'm wonderfully hard," said Campbell Black, and all the women gasped again at his wit and erudition, soaking their chairs with raw lust.


I don't understand how this thing is 700 pages; it's just this man going "hur hur hur my dick hur hur" and occasionally sexually assaulting a teenager. I get the impression the book is going to marry him to the teenager. He's 37.

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

(I'd be all "really, grandma?", but tbh it's a complete lack of surprise.)

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

"Is it true that you used to beat the shit out of your horses?" asked the interviewer.

"Yes, but only because I was angry."

I like this man, thought the interviewer.



(I forgot to mention that everyone in this book is batshit.)

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh also. One woman's harrowing backstory is that she got groped by her mum's lesbian gf. But women get groped by men on every page of this book. It exists in a strange world where being sexually assaulted by a man isn't particularly upsetting, but being sexually assaulted by a woman messes you up for life. She also seems less upset by the assault and more upset that her mum's gf is super butch. Interesting cultural moment, 1987.

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

I personally only beat the shit out of my horse when I'm feeling particularly maudlin. Is that bad form? Am I unlikeable?

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

The guy being interviewed also sexually assaulted the interviewer's teenage daughter, which the interviewer is aware of. So the bar is pretty fucking low.

Re: Books - Rivals (Jilly Cooper)

[(Anonymous)]

400 pages in. Everyone continues to fall inexplicably head-over-heels for "hurhurhur my dick" man.