Madonna's kids' book lands with a thud

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9-16-03 | Reviewed by David Kipen, Chronicle Book Critic

[Guillermo]

Slipcased, with a first printing north of 1 million copies, simultaneously released in 30 languages and 100 countries, pop singer Madonna's first of a projected five children's books landed in about 50,000 bookstores nationwide Monday. The last time a five-book series launched with such a bang, the first installment was called "Genesis."

[camle]

yeah. such a role model. i can see thousands of parents running out to expose their kids to Madonna's POV. right.

[MotleyGirl70]

Unfortunately, those feelings bespeak a persecution complex so narcissistic that she ought rather have paid readers $100 an hour than charged them 50 cents a page.

$100? That's not sweetening the deal to even pick it up and glance at it.

[Sabatier]

"Nobody doubts that Madonna has probably been, at
various times in her life, beautiful..."

Uh, right here. Doubt, lots of it. Mucho, mucho doubt.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

""Nobody doubts that Madonna has probably been, at
various times in her life, beautiful..."


Only after she showered with NEET.

[bmwcyle]

Pasty white sluts are just don't light my fire.

[Revolting cat!]

FYI, this review was published, interestingly enough, on the second page of the first section, the news section, of this morning's Comical!

[MotleyGirl70]

Madonna has ALWAYS been really pasty. I don't think she's ever had a tan. She is just all around a nasty and narcissistic woman.

[MEGoody]

Any parent who buys a children's book written by Madonna should be horse-whipped.

[cyborg]

and lots of peroxide to catch the strays and wash down that overstrained mop of 'hair'

This witch has to use a vat of depilatory like the rest of us mediterranean chicks. I'm more British than she is but I don't use a phoney accent either... :chugging the haterade:

[Newbomb Turk]

Question : Whats blonde, brunette, blonde ,brunette, blonde brunette?

Answer : Madonna doing a cartwheel.

[thegreatbeast]

Great review. It is so entertaining to see Madonna and Michael Jackson make these futile grasps for relevence. Life is good!

[bullseye1911]

CALLAWAY; 46 Pages; $19.95

Pretty expensive door stop!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

That's funny.

You really go after Medusa with a vengeance!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Pasty white sluts are just don't light my fire. "

Add a cro-mag black unibrow and its the stuff of repulsion.

[cyborg]

I drank the haterade Xtra strength. Nothing else will do when chopping down has been, dried up, frowsy hollywood whores. Then again, she is medusa. All I need is a mirror held up to her face before one of her snakes injects me with botox venom.

[Aquinasfan]

Any parent who buys a children's book written by Madonna should be horse-whipped.

Corporal punishment is undervalued.

[Thinkin' Gal]

The four interchangeable Roses exist primarily to torment a sweet, angelic Madonna stand-in named Binah...

Pop Kabbalah perversion ping.

[southern bale]

no one had the nerve to tell her what an insipid piece of junk this book (according to the excerpts) is...when i heard she wanted to write children's books, it was, she said, b/c children's books she had read were about nothing...so i guess she wanted to perpetuate what she was lamenting about in the first place...

[DoughtyOne]

This is a very sad individual. From the name she decided to coopt for her own evil purposes, to the influence she has had on hundreds of millions of kids, to the fact that she won't even let her own children watch her products, this woman is vile. She knows what she is and wants us to accept it. No thanks. Market yourself to the populace in hell when you get there. We're not worthy.