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LMLDallas78
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I had the men of Dallas (think that's what is was called) and the women of Dallas by Burt Hirschfield. I kept the copy of Dallas by Lee Raintree for the photos on the cover!
All books are quite a read and a real eye opener when I read them as a youngster. Far more daring than what we saw on TV and back then that was daring enough!
All books are quite a read and a real eye opener when I read them as a youngster. Far more daring than what we saw on TV and back then that was daring enough!
southfork88
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Outrageously audacious for the time and with inconsistencies with respect to the television series. I cut out the cover and threw the rest in the trash. I still have The Women of Dallas by Hirschfield, another rather despicable novel.
James from London
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My obsession with the series was just beginning at the time Lee Raintree's book came out and I was still piecing it altogether, so I think the "inconsistencies" just added to my fascination with the whole saga. I couldn't afford to buy the book so I used to keep going back to the shop to read it. I couldn't put it down. It's so lurid yet so lyrical. Passages from it have stayed with me ever since.
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Willie Oleson
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What an interesting way to read a book.
I find that whole "respect" thing so overrated. Isn't it much more interesting to read a "could have been" DALLAS, especially now that everyone has the opportunity to watch the real DALLAS over and over again?
James from London
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Oh I used to do most of reading in my shops back in the day -- books, magazines, newspapers. God bless WH Smith's!
I actually find the final section of Lee Raintree's book, which is closely (if still loosely) based on the first five episodes of the series, rather than the author's imaginings of the decades leading up to them, the least interesting part.
southfork88
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If you want to know which technique of brutal sexual violence Miss Ellie chooses to make Roberta crazy, after discovering that she is Jock's lover, you reader will be satisfied. If you want to know how to make a sandwich with Lucy in the center and two men on opposite sides and what else she likes to taste, well ... that too you will find in the other book. Then there are other scenes like the famous one of Bill Clinton, etc.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Yeah, with me being a Doctor Who and Star Trek fan why can't we just consider the option these books are set in a different time line.
After all the TV series itself wasn't immune, lets not forget the infamous dream season should be classed as a different timeline. I'm rather fond of that season as it shows how the Ewings coped after the 'death' of Bobby.
James from London
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Gosh, I don't remember that. Do you recall which men?
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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It it's Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr I'm gonna need a therapist after reading the book! :fp:
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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This is the actual copy I've ordered off eBay. There was only the one photo on the listing and for the price £6.50 hopefully it's in decent condition.
southfork88
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Two strangers, but that scene appears in The Women of Dallas.
Willie Oleson
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Gosh, it looks like Mrs. Cidre has literally taken a leaf out of someone's book. Perhaps she thought that was the original, official DALLAS.
As for DALLAS the Lorimar soap I think my favourite sexy-sordid moment is about what wasn't going to happen - and yet revealing way too much - when JR forbids Sue Ellen to wear her new-bought lingerie (I think it was something like that).
I found a Dutch translation of the Raintree novel, but as James put it
I'm going to try the read the English edition.
A mint hardback would be fabulous but I also like the schlock and quasi-under-the-counter artwork of the UK paperback.
Taylor Bennett Jr.
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it may have been this crowd:
(what were the Dallas producers thinking not giving us any ‘Muriel by the pool in a bikini’ scenes?!)
James from London
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I'm going to try the read the English edition.
A mint hardback would be fabulous but I also like the schlock and quasi-under-the-counter artwork of the UK paperback.
I've bought a few copies over the years (which I guess makes up for the original one I read for free in the shop) and they've all had that cover, but they've all been hardback. It's never occurred to me before now, but I'm not sure a paperback version with that cover even exists. So with any luck, you'll get a schlockily mint hardback edition.
LMLDallas78
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The book I have has that cover and it's paperback.
Love your story about reading books in WH Smiths!
Definitely! Mine's a bit like that with lush brown pages, not from nicotine though, I guess just old age.
Willie Oleson
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Perhaps I should buy the poorest/filthiest condition possible (covered with greasy fingerprints and nicotine stains) to crank up its vintage schlock value.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Try eBay there was a few other hardbacks but if it's just a paperback you're after there was plenty of those.