So yesterday I was at home watching the Today show when Danielle Steel was interviewed. She was discussing her new book, Rogue. It got me to thinking…
Have you ever read a DS novel? Which one? Did you like it? Do you still read her?
One thing that stumped me in the interview is that she said it generally takes her 2-3 years to complete a book from start to finish. She has published a total of 106 books across all genres. Girl is looking good for being 212 years old, let me tell you.
Even though I no longer read her books, I have to admire the fact that a mother of NINE kids can crank out books like she can.
The last DS book I read was the one where the beginning of the book took place on the Titanic. That was a pretty goood book from what I could remmeber. And I used to love when Lifetime TV would show DS books made into movies.
I guess she is not part of that publish a book once a year thing. How old is she BTW?
I read four or perhaps even five of her books before I clued in to the fact that it’s the same book, different window dressing.
I’ve kept two that I did like: Fine Things, the first one I read, and Accident.
Don’t know that I’ll ever re-read them, though, because there is a certain morbid perspective, as if she relished piling on the grief on the characters.
LOL @ Wendy. Don’t hold back now, tell us how you really feel! 😛
Although that sounds like the standard DS if you ask me…
I’ve read several of her novels. More than several, actually. I used to lurrrve her. But then I got tired of all the drama. I also got tired of her writing “voice” and the way she felt the need to constantly repeat herself over and over and over again to drive the same point home. Contrary to popular belief, I am not a moron. You generally don’t have to explain the same thing to me 500x for me to understand. No, really.
I used to read DS when I was younger – a lot younger. After a while they all started to sound the same. I can’t even remember the titles. I think The Promise was the first one I read when I was about 12 or 13…at least I think that was the one! lol
I read four or perhaps even five of her books before I clued in to the fact that it’s the same book, different window dressing.
AL, that sums it up perfectly.
My first book by her was Message From Nam. I still love that book. There are a couple others that I really liked, too.
The main reason I stopped reading her was b/c her books are depressing as hell. How much tragedy can one person take? She just heaps it on. And on and on.
Oh and KB, according to wikipedia, she’s 60.
I have never read DS. I think it is a mental thing. My mother had read her faithfully for years and I really do not want to know what she is reading (aka sex scenes). Now she reads more stuff like Dean Koontz but I still cannot get myself to read DS.
I have… as a teenager. title was something about Forever (once and forever? I don’t remember). I think I may have read a couple after that but then as they all ended up “feeling” the same, i stopped.
I read one DS book way back in High School and it was called Daddy. I hecka enjoyed it but I have never reread that book nor have I ever really wanted to read more by DS. There’s so many other authors and books to check out that DS always falls to the side.
I read Lone Eagle. That was more than enough. I hated that book with the kind of rabid, seething passion normally reserved to soccer hooligans.
Spoiled, whiny, poor little rich girl falls in lurve with a guy who treats her like crap because he’s obsessed with his work (he flies airplanes or something like that). While jackass is treating her like crap, a very nice guy falls in love with her, but she’s already in lurve! So she treats Mr. Nice Guy like crap and pines, pines away for jackass “hero.” Oh, and her mother was made out to be the villain! Even though Mommy’s only crime was telling her daughter, “Um, you know that guy you’re in lurve with? Yeah, he’s a jackass. Dump him and hook up with Mr. Nice Guy.”
Yeah, Mom was such a bitch! ::snort::
My first, last and only Danielle Steel.
My first book by her was Te Promise (anyone remember that one?). I think I read it in the late 70s. Great book.
I can’t remember what my last book was, cause I stopped reading her so long ago – at least 20 years ago.
I must have read 2/3 of her books -probably all those published more than five years ago. Can’t tell you the titles since I read the French translations. She had quite a few that I thought were really good, but I just shifted out of the mental frame where I was interested in that kind of books, I guess. Plus, some were also really bad. I remember something about a guy with a clone???? Weird. Some were just boring. I still buy every new one coming out in French for mymother who reads then religiously. You should see her face lighten when she realize what I’m holding :-D. It’s worth shedding 17 bucks 4 times a year.
I skimmed one someone had passed to my mom. It didn’t catch my interest. My mom finished it, although she isn’t a fan – she has to be desperate for a book to pick up DS – and she usually enjoys that type of saga.
:-/
I’ve read a few of them over the years. Last one I read was Toxic Bachelors. It was terrible. The content was repetitive, predictable and uninspiring. I never picked up another DS book after that.