Amazing to see this garbage exalted on a conservative site. I cannot imagine, for instance, the writings of CS Lewis, or Saint Thomas Aquinas, being celebrated on a progressive liberal website.
Agreed
Mostly because liberals (of the modern sort) are stupid. Conservatives should read broadly. My hero is Saint Teresa of Avila, who was a total fan of medieval fantasy, or lets say Chivalric Romance (Orlando, Amadis, Esplandian, etc., that whole list in “Don Quixote”).
Let’s leave Marilyn out of this, she was a walking tragedy more than anything else.
Jacqueline Susanne was a clever writer. Her immoral works aren’t, depending on how you look at it I guess. In “Valley of the Dolls” she tells a tragic tale, or, rather, a lot of them, of affairs, corruption of innocents, drug addiction, cruel ambition, etc., that all end badly. It’s not really different (other than volume) from the 18th century “Dangerous Liasons”, “Lady of the Camellias” by Dumas, “Madame Bovary”, “Anna Karenina” or “Nana” by Zola. Susanne just packs in a few more characters and tragedies.
Yes, I do read a lot of things.