I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world.

Telegraph.Com ^ | Filed: 08/05/2003) | Margaret Drabble

[wizzler]

Before anybody gets enraged or indignant about this piece, spewing venom all over the forum, try to remember that the best response to these kinds of dimwits is to ignore them.

The extremism of the piece is laughable. It's like a caricature. It's not worth taking seriously, because it is wholly and completely a non-threat.

[Paul Atreides]

I imagine she does more than her part in keeping Duracell in business.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

That is one seriously butchy-looking female. (And how utterly predictable that was.)

[Cultural Jihad]

Well, just the other day, while bringing ...

... my war ration book to the store to buy some milk ...

... an Air Raid Warden came up and told us ...

... to black out all our windows ...

 

... and we've been living like this for 61 years now!
The personal sacrifice is just way too much of a burden to bear even a minute longer!

[tet68]

NOte to self, keep her away from explosives and sharp implements of destructioooon.
24/7 observation and perhaps an electronic medication collar.

[thatsnotnice]

I hate feeling this hatred.

Heh. Get used to it honey. Meanwhile, how's that space program coming along...

[Travis McGee]

If it wasn't for big mean Americans with cartoon characters painted on their tanks and bombers, she would be speaking German today, and wearing a swastika on her uniform.

[Tennessee_Bob]

and none of this would have happened.

Yeah, except that whole 9/11 thing was in the planning stages for a few years - that would have still happened. And it scares the hell out of me to think what Gore would have done.

[Leisler]

It's Home Page, here.

[South40]

Did Robert KKK Byrd write that?

[wimpycat]

Have a Coke and a smile, ma'am!

This woman needs a laxative, I suspect.

[mrfixit514]

I can barely contain my hatred of this idiot. That British POS. LONG LIVE AMERICA! LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE!

[eclectic]

It has made me much, much more ill than I had expected

So lay down and die, you maggot

[Moby Grape]

There is NO doubt that HATE is the property of the LEFT.

[New Horizon]

She's desperately in need of large doses of Xanax.

[mystery-ak]

Lighten uo, Margaret....get a boyfriend(?)....I love when the military paint cartoons on the bombs-bomb art.

[NH Liberty]

Sorry Toots, but this IS the real America.

And may God continue to bless us, every one.

[Right Wing Professor]

I keep writing to Jack Straw about the so-called "illegal combatants", including minors, who are detained there without charge or trial or access to lawyers, and I shall go on writing to him and his successors until something happens

Well, at least it keeps her from writing those crappy novels.

This is from amazon.com, and it's an allegedly positive review

It's hard to get across just how flat-out thrilling, how readable, how absorbing is Margaret Drabble's novel The Seven Sisters. It sounds positively dull when you describe it:

no kidding

Candida Wilton, a faculty wife of late middle age, has been dumped by her allegedly do-gooder husband. Her three daughters aren't too impressed with her, either. The mousy Candida decamps to an inglorious flat in London, where she measures out her time in visits to the health club, trips to the grocery store, and her weekly evening class on Virgil. She tentatively makes a few new friends and rediscovers some old ones. This opening section of the book, told in diary form, is a marvel of tone.

I'm dozing off already, and this is only a summary

With very little action, Drabble makes Candida's forays into the world quietly electrifying. One of her new pleasures is recording in her diary her mounting dislike of her ex-husband. You sense a giddy freedom: "Andrew had come to seem to me to be the vainest, the most self-satisfied, the most self-serving hypocrite in England. That kindly twinkle in his eyes had driven me to the shores of madness."

Well, that takes care of him!

Ah, but there's more life for Candida yet. A small, unexpected inheritance is left to her, and so she organizes her friends--all female, mostly aged, mostly unmarried--into a tour of Naples as Virgil describes it in The Aeneid. Their holiday is a fictional tour-de-force: by turns a hilarious send-up of group dynamics, a metafictional lark, a feminist rant, and a dark acknowledgement of Candida's mortality. In the end, Drabble's novel is a very serious one, and a very good one.

Don't all stampede to the bookstore, now.

[Eala]

My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease.

I could not have thought of a better, more appropriate analogy. Right, she's diseased.

[Right Wing Professor]

Her dad's pretty ugly, but how about posting a picture of her?