![]() Not every author writes every book at good as some of his or her other work. If I find it I might upgrade my review." So the author is blamed because someone did not do their homework or they misplaced their copy of their book?Īnybody who sold or sells 750 million copies of book is not a one-star writer. I never use reviews as a source to determine if I am going to purchase or read a book because they are so unreliable.Īn review I read not too long ago gave the author a one-star ".because I can't find the book and I don't know what I did with it. This kind of writing style and subject isn't for everyone. The Predator was one of his later books, with the Carpetbagger being one of his best. Harold Robbins has been dead for 20 years, still run high in sales. I really don't how he got away with writing what he did during the time he wrote them, but like 50 Shades of Grey which is fairly poor writing sex sells and sells big. Yes his books are laced with sex, erotica and romance and he was what they called Mister Sex. Harold Robbins till this very day is one of the bestselling authors of all time. I don't understand how some of the greatest writers in the world get the worst reviews but I can assure you, often it is because people don't bother doing a little research before they read a book. Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers, loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes, taking the reader from New York to California, from the prosperity of the aeronautical industry to the glamour of Hollywood. He would become arguably the world's bestselling author, publishing over 20 books which were translated into 32 languages and sold over 750 million copies. His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole, which starred Elvis Presley. ![]() Publisher Pat Knopf reportedly bought Never Love a Stranger because "it was the first time he had ever read a book where on one page you'd have tears and on the next page you'd have a hard-on". ![]() His first book, Never Love a Stranger (1948), caused controversy with its graphic sexuality. He was reared by his pharmacist father and stepmother in Brooklyn. In reality he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants. Born as Harold Rubin in New York City, he later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys home.
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