Just got "Godless" last night.
Truth is the opposite of what her detractors are saying, some here on FR: Coulter sells books not because she is outrageous (which she is) but because she's a skillfull debater and a good writer.
Take those paragraphs on the 9/11 widows out of the book and what is left is, as Steyn recognized, a tightly argued and FUNNY book.
For Coulter's other secret is that she is the ONLY pundit we have who sees just how absurd the left is, and she never stops just flat out MAKING FUN OF THEM.
And that's attractive. Apparently.
She's also right, as in correct.
Take those paragraphs on the 9/11 widows out of the book and what is left is, as Steyn recognized, a tightly argued and FUNNY book.It is a phenomenal gift that Coulter (and Steyn, of course) has. She takes these serious topics -- slander, treason, statism -- and all the while she's expounding on the dangers of them, the reader is rolling.For Coulter's other secret is that she is the ONLY pundit we have who sees just how absurd the left is, and she never stops just flat out MAKING FUN OF THEM.
I've often been a Coulter critic, but one thing is almost certainly true: she never would have been on Leno if she hadn't made that comment about the Jersey Girls. If she had stuck to rational argument, without the zingers, the libs would have ignored the book. So I concede that point to her defenders.
What Ann does is get her voice heard above the din and she baits liberals into debate or baits the rest of us into reading the book. She has enough confidence and skill to finish the job.
I picked up Godless in an audio book. Having Ann read her own book to you is the best way. She puts all the inflections and emotions into the words just were she wants them.