[wimpycat]

Have a Coke and a smile, ma'am!

This woman needs a laxative, I suspect.

[eclectic]

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

So lay down and die, you maggot

[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.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Since she's so miserable, she could always do herself and everyone else a favor and commit suicide.

[prairiebreeze]

We have almost ceased to notice when suicide bombers are described as "cowards".

Does she consider them heroes, I wonder??

So Margaret Drabble hates us. Somehow, I can live with that.

Prairie

[spodefly]

I am thinking that Margaret needs to adjust her dose just a bit. Going through life as a depressed, bitter, hate-filled troll is unnecessary when there is Zoloft ... it has helped many leftists in the past few years. Further, some counseling might help her understand the projection of her insanity on America.

[Calvin Locke]

Enough of boots.

Obviously, she knows she's piling it high and deep.

She is very distraught over the fact that we know enough to keep boots handy when she and such other ilk are around.

[Eala]

in a city that I took to be Ho Chi Minh City, still familiarly known in America by its old French colonial name of Saigon.

I don't speak French, nor do I speak Vietnamese, and neither my polyglot wife nor my Vietnamese friends are available right now... but to my ears "Saigon" does not sound one bit French. So how is it a "French colonial name"? Did the French found Saigon?

[Spruce]

[PISANO]

This b...h is insignificant, but the truly remarkable thing is that MOST of Academia, the BASE of the Gimmies party, Hollywood, Print News, and News media in general FEEL THE SAME WAY. Sick puppies, ALL!

[Cicero]

Margaret Drabble is a lousy, overrated novelist. I can't get through even one of her books.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

If it weren't for George w. Bush, Saddam and his sons would still be cutting off people's lips, tongues, and genitals with box cutters. Freaking box cutters! WHERE'S YOUR OUTRAGE THERE?

[Dead Dog]

RAF Lancaster

Lilly White British Men posing with RAF Spitfire (probable naked chick nose art).

I couldn't find a image of it, but the IIRC an RAF P-51 squadron had the "tiger shark" teeth thing going. I guess that makes them criminally insane.

[Maigrey]

About the only thing I agree on with this trollop:
I detest sentimental and violent Hollywood movies..."

[templar]

Somehow, for some reason I can't quite identify, I find myself taking a great deal of satisfaction in her hatred of us.

[woofie]

Dear Ms Margaret Drabble

I hate you and your stupid name too