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  • noun Plural form of potboiler.

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Examples

  • Tad Williams, author of bestselling and world-denuding fantasy potboilers, is publishing his next book online, too.

    Boing Boing: April 8, 2001 - April 14, 2001 Archives 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).

    Scandalous Book Review: Louisa May Alcott, The Woman Behind Little Women 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.

    The Matter of China-- and a bit on Derbyshire 2005

  • 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.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • Maslin’s summary implies, however, that Baum turned to pen-name potboilers after his financial problems.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Maslin’s summary implies, however, that Baum turned to pen-name potboilers after his financial problems.

    The “First Literary Biography”? Then What’s This? 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.

    The Younger Russian Writers 1899

  • Some of the Gold Medal paperback "potboilers" that were written in the fifties and sixties were truly great works of fiction.

    murderati 2009

  • Some of the Gold Medal paperback "potboilers" that were written in the fifties and sixties were truly great works of fiction.

    murderati 2009

  • Some of the Gold Medal paperback "potboilers" that were written in the fifties and sixties were truly great works of fiction.

    murderati 2009

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