Dear diary: got up, read Clinton's book, got bored, went back to bed

The Scotsman ^ | July 12, 2004 | FIONA McCADE

[MadIvan]

Apart from the last paragraph, pretty good. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[goldstategop]

Clinton's ficbio is certainly good for curing insomnia.

[nopardons]

That last bloody paragraph utterly spoils the entire article. :-(

[Libertina]

Agree, it stinks.

[GVnana]

Love this: "87 years ago, America was founded. All people are equal. Some even died so that we’ll always have elections. I declare this cemetery open."

[Ruth A.]

Pity Fiona couldn't be satified with a fine article and had to interject venom towards someone who has not written an autobiography.

[KangarooJacqui]

Bill's book about himself is boring?

Hardly news. I've never read a book about the Clintons yet that hasn't worked like a vast handful of sleeping pills...

"The Seduction of Hillary Rodham" was so mind-numbingly, horrendously boring I couldn't even finish it - and that's really saying something for me. The last book before that I never finished was "A Brief History of Time" by Steven Hawking - who lost me with the math.

The Clintons, on the other hand, just never had me to begin with.

[cyborg]

It would only be interesting if they put in all the dirty parts.

[KangarooJacqui]

What, about Steven Hawking or about the Clintons?!?!

[cyborg]

About Bill Clinton... I can't imagine reading that stupid book unless there was something interesting to read.

[KangarooJacqui]

If I know my mother, she'll pick it up eventually at a remainder sale for under ten bucks. (She's the one who bought the Hillary book, as well as other books about the Clintons whose titles, mercifully perhaps, I have forgotten.)

Which is still a waste of money, IMHO.

[cyborg]

Until that book ends up in the book barrell for five bucks, I'm not going near it. I wouldn't even read it. It sounds so boring.

[KangarooJacqui]

Still a waste of money.

I wouldn't even read a free copy. Well, MAYBE I would, if I was on the third night of a manic no-sleep thing... and even then, I could probably think of better uses of the time.

[lainde]

btt

[Desdemona]

So, this book is still in the "fire-starter" category? I'll wait until the bookstores have to return their stock and rip the covers off before the publishers get them. Bok boards don't burn very quickly.

[MadIvan]

If it's a fire starter, I missed it. It seems to me better suited to be moved into the "soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent" aisle.

Regards, Ivan

[Desdemona]

It seems to me better suited to be moved into the "soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent" aisle.

Just douse it with lighter fluid, then.

[Happygal]

"soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent" aisle.

Is it also very, very long? ;-)

[Desdemona]

Is it also very, very long?

So it will last for many trips to the privy. Can't open it in the house. There isn't enough Lysol to kill all the germs.