Potboilers

Tad Williams, author of bestselling and world-denuding fantasy potboilers, is publishing his next book online, too. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I re-read Little Women (very enjoyable yet again!) and some of her other juvenile literature (An Old Fashioned Girl, etc.) and even one of her 'potboilers' (A Long Fatal Love Chase). ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2010)

He is perhaps pulling our legs a little--- he reminds me of my friend Peter Bowen, who insists his quirky Montana mysteries are mere "potboilers" when in fact they beat most pretentious "literature" from that state hands down. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Maslin’s summary implies, however, that Baum turned to pen-name potboilers after his financial problems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Besides these two, Potapenko has written a dozen or so of other stories and sketches which have in them the elements of enduring literature; but all these are lost in scores of "potboilers" quite unworthy of his talent. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Some of the Gold Medal paperback "potboilers" that were written in the fifties and sixties were truly great works of fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Can you imagine the kind of potboilers I'd be making if my first film 'Trishakti' had clicked? ' ❋ Unknown (2009)

Can you imagine the kind of potboilers I'd be making if my first film Trishakti had clicked? " ❋ Unknown (2009)

Midsomer's lack of ethnic diversity stems from the fact that it's essentially a camp tribute to "Murder at the Vicarage" potboilers from a pre-multicultural era: a knowing assembly of Middle England cliches. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her other work quickly became more like potboilers, including the melodrama Sunflower, though the sex farce Marriage, Italian Style cemented Loren and Italy itself forever in the mind of Americans as a va-va-voom sort of country. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

I despise wading through potboilers, diet, financial scandal, romance, popular biography books. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most best-selling potboilers are likely to use the Freytag-derived narrative filtered through Hollywood melodrama. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The marathon of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and Southeast Asian popular cinema opens July 1 at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, with its ever-arresting array of Yakuza potboilers and martial- arts extravaganzas, perverse comedies and karate-chopping cyborg romps, ghost stories and historical epics—and guest appearances by legendary figures like Tsui Hark, the architect of Hong Kong's new wave of action spectacles in the 1980s and '90s and this year's major honoree. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

Most [Bollywood] films are just potboilers; they make money without being original, or [in spite of] being poor imitations of other directors' [originals]. ❋ Bby-gell (2006)