Humdinger of a novel.
Loosely based on Howard Hughes life and therefore it revolves around aviation and Hollywood.

This one is Harold Robbins' first novel. Raw power. ( )

Jonas Cord codiciaba la fama y la fortuna de su padre, incluso su joven y hermosa esposa. Cuando su padre murió, Jonas juró poseerlos a todos. Pero Rina Marlow era la célebre diosa de la pantalla que ningún hombre podía dominar. Su sensualidad candente podría inflamar y cautivar a millones, pero su tocador personal no era una fantasía de Hollywood. Ella consumió a sus amantes en el potro de fuego de sus ardientes deseos.
Rina y Jonas conquistaron Hollywood, la industria aeronáutica y los propios Estados Unidos. Desde Nueva York hasta Los Ángeles pelearon, desearon y forjaron un imperio blasonado en titulares de pancartas y la sangre de sus enemigos, solo para descubrir que el dinero y el poder, la venganza y el renombre no eran suficientes. Demasiado nunca sería suficiente, no para Jonas Cord y la implacable Rina Marlowe. Cuanto más alto se elevaban, más exigía su ambición... más oscuras y mortales crecían sus pasiones ardientes.

"Os Insaciáveis", romance erótico que narra a saga de homens e mulheres sedentos de sexo, amor, dinheiro e prestígio. Jonas Cord, piloto e homem de negócios, movido pelo fantasma de um pai tirânico, é o personagem principal de uma história turbulenta e explosiva. Ao lado da sensual estrela de cinema Rina Marlowe, persegue o sucesso a qualquer preço. Em seu caminho, amantes, inimigos e concorrentes não são poupados. Cord se aproveita de tudo o que eles podem oferecer em sua escalada inescrupulosa rumo ao topo. "Os Insaciáveis" descreve a vida, os desejos e ambições dos ricos e famosos com um realismo que marcou época. Um dos romances mais populares da segunda metade do século XX.

If i was to do a one word review it would be 'Inconsistent'. Inconsistent characters, tone, pacing, graphicness, length.. somehow.
This is basically a soap-opera drama, something along the lines of 'Dynasty' or 'Dallas'. It follows the interweaving lives of three main people, a cowboy, a woman based at least partially on jane russel and a howard hughes knockoff. Except then just as your expecting it to finish up it adds two more new characters... what? Who are these people, why is this still going? Its like it was meant to be two books but the author couldn't quite find enough material for the second so instead you have here a novel and a half.
Between the now 5 main characters are about 18 different personalities. There's never any attempt made to use the book medium to advantage. In books its easy to see what people are thinking and get inside their heads but that never happens here, your as removed from them as you would be watching it on tv.

Other oddities are that the book can be quite graphic when it comes to sex and violence, sometimes.. then other times it turns and runs from the sex or violence, again inconsistent.
There are a lot of side characters in this too some of which pay off and others that just disappear from the story suddenly and without a trace.

The various storylines interweave and the plot jumps back and forth in time and from location to location often without any lead in. Everytime you hit a paragraph end you wonder whether the next one will be in the same time or place (and usually isn't). In other novels this would be extremely confusing but somehow here its merely annoying.

Oh and heres a reverse spoiler, the howard hughes character does not end up storing his piss in jars, i kept waiting for that to happen but no, maybe in the sequel ;) .

Having said all that, you can't deny its dramatic, if you like your soaps this has a lot of story to munch on and the writing is fine even if the structure is a mess. ( )

I have decided that life is too short to continue reading this book. There is plenty of action, but it is dated and poorly edited. An example:
'Her eyes stared coldly up at me. "Look, Jonas," she said coldly,...'
It is also full of gratuitous violence (my main objection) and frankly silly sexual fantasies. And it is predictable. Robbins builds the scene and you just think: Uh-oh, I know what's coming now. Do I really have to put myself through reading this?
Nope, I don't. One for the charity shop. ( )