4, “The Andromeda Strain” - by a young fourth-year Harvard medical student named Michael Crichton - had everything going for it: The Times had given it a rave review (“a reading windfall - compelling, memorable, superbly executed”), Hollywood snapped up film rights and the Book of the Month Club tapped it as a main selection. “What Roth has done for masturbation, Puzo has done for murder.” “If Philip Roth has created a Jewish mother who can actually give you heartburn, Mario Puzo has created a Sicilian father who will make you shiver every time you stroll on Mulberry Street,” Schaap wrote.
2 on the fiction list was Mario Puzo’s “ The Godfather.” Dick Schaap - the legendary sports journalist who reviewed it for The Times - had a good time comparing it to Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint,” the novel which was at No. But in its own little sub-category of popularly written romans à clef, it shines, like a rhinestone in a trash can.”Īt No.
In her piece, which was as saucy and savagely funny as you might expect, Ephron wrote, “With the possible exception of Cosmopolitan magazine, no one writes about sadism in modern man and masochism in modern woman quite as horribly and accurately as Jacqueline Susann.” She added that “The Love Machine” was “not exactly a literary work. So to spice things up, we looked back to the summer of 1969 to see what people were reading 50 years ago.īack then the country’s hottest novel was Jacqueline Susann’s “ The Love Machine,” which Nora Ephron reviewed for The Times.
Delia Owens’s “Where the Crawdads Sing” is once again the top-selling novel, as it has been for most of the year, and Tara Westover’s memoir, “ Educated,” remains ensconced at No. 1 slots each week - but this summer, things have been, well, not quite as lively. It’s the height of the beach-reading season - usually a time when there are new titles scrapping for the No.
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