Pea soup hurl alert.
...So we had to find somebody even more narcissistic, irrelevant and stupid to replace her, so nobody would miss her!
Gee, I thought only white conservatives were supposed to be bitter and mean-spirited.
What's this clymer's excuse??
The day that the NY Times descends into its well-earned bankruptcy, my reaction will be the same as Mark Twain to the death of a swindler. He said, “If the auctioneer’s brother's funeral takes place while I am in Virginia City, I will postpone all other recreation and attend it.”
John / Billybob
..."Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain".
If the millions of average Americans who never hear Limbaugh, watch Fox News or log onto FR realized how much these leftist snobs hated them and their patriotism, religion and the fact that they didn't go to Harvard, the Democrats would never win another election.
Well Mr. Egan, you didn't seem to have any problems joining those ranks. Given the literary example just published, I don't see how Joe the plumber could do any worse.
maureen dowd is a leaky toilet.
Pea soup hurl alert.
Cool! Timothy Egan signals that he’s working hard for the new Obama administration.
Exact description of New York times reporters
“Our next president is a writer”
Nope.
His books were written by terrorist Bill Ayers.
He works with his hands? Unthinkable!
My name is Timothy Egan and I'm an egotistical jerk. I wrote five books and won the Pulitzer Prize.
What, you never heard of me? What's wrong with you? That's the Pulitzer Prize, man, the Pulitzer Prize!
Timothy seems to think that it's difficult, perhaps it is for Timothy.
No doubt it upsets Timothy greatly that Joe the plumber gets a book deal while, at least in Timothy's mind, his great work(s) sits unwanted.
The three top reviews of Timothy Egan’s novel, “The Winemaker’s Daughter,” at Amazon:
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
Beware the Reviews, June 20, 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: The Winemaker’s Daughter (Hardcover)
There was a lot of hype in the NYTimes about this book along with a great review. Now that I’ve read it, it seems to me it’s the good-old-boys network supporting one of their own. It realy is nothing more than a potboiler. So much of the story is disjointed - you are jarred going from one scene to another - where is the transition or even the rationale? No character is real - they merely behave how you would think they should. There is no real development and no poetry in the writing. It really seems like a non-fiction writer said “now I must write that novel.” Too bad really good books by completely unknown writers don’t get the big write-up from the Times. My book club prefers to read books they have “heard about” rather than try a new author who really has talent. So much for promoting new good writers rather than ensuring that the inner circle keeps earning their money so they can stick around and support their buddies. Corrupt that this book gets the big splash. )
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Two stars for effort. , March 24, 2004
By book worm “MEO” (Andover, MA USA) - See all my reviews
The setting and the premise are interesting but the story never develops. People and events are never connected. This book reads more like a rough draft than a finished story.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Even heros have flaws, July 15, 2005
By J. A Johnson “autumn sage” (Playa Vista, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Unfortunately, Timothy Egan seems to forget that in this novel. Among the issues I have with this novel, this is the biggest. His characters are perfect. The heroine is smart and sexy and physically fit and the top of her field. She speaks Italian with her father, has a taste for wine (not to be unexpected, given the subject matter), seems completely at home in the country or city and seems to be passionate about everything.
In other words, she’s boring.
I picked up this book because I was looking for a Northwest author writing about the Northwest. What I found was warmed over prose written by an author who is too full of himself. He’s in desperate need of a serious and skilled editor.
So, we have a "writing-class" now into which no one may enter without his approval?
Okay, I can’t speak to Joan Didion’s career, but I seem to recall quite clearly that Sam Clemens and Eric Blair did other stuff for a living before they became Mark Twain and George Orwell, world-famous authors.
Envy. As a member of the chattering classes, the author thinks he is entitled as a matter of course to a book deal more lucrative than Joe the Plumber got. Since he doesn’t have one, he has to sneer.
Wow! There's strong and there's Army strong. There's snotty and there's New York Times snotty.
I honestly cannot imagine such a snotty, dismissive line appearing in any British newspaper, the Guardian or the real (London) Times. This kind of writing is the product of sloppy groupthink, the kind of thing that puts your stock into a tailspin. Sorry, mista Egan, but maybe the reason the publishing industry is in such bad financial straights is because they (and their retail outlets) already embrace your principles.
I seem to forget, where were the snarky editorials in response to any of the Clintons' cumbersome literary efforts? Oh, I forgot, they're Democrats, and therefore literary, economic, political, military and mathematical geniuses. Reminds me of the scene in the movie, Das Boot, where the old U-Boot Kapitan hoists a toast to Germany, "Where else but in our great democracy could an ordinary paperhanger become a military and naval genius?"
FMCDH(BITS)
The truth is literally ANYONE can write a book. Not just anyone can SELL their book!