Posted on 06/09/2003 10:27:36 PM PDT by daviddennis
According to a friend of mine who reads scripts for a living, you can tell whether a script will be decent or not by simply reading the first few pages. "I don't know of any film that's been able to salvage a bad first act," she said.
It is in this spirit that I picked up Hillary's book in Borders this afternoon. I think it's safe to say that you'd have to idolize Hillary to get through it without falling asleep.
Rrom the first sentence on, it reads like a whitewashed memoir, perhaps of the head of some bland corporation. Hillary has had a pretty interesting life, as these things go, but she is so determined not to burn any bridges that she's sucked all possible life out of the narrative.
The analysis I've read of the book here on FR makes me all too aware that this is essentially a work of fiction. If you actually think she believed Clinton's denials about Monica, well I have a nice bridge I can sell you on an easy payment plan.
So the only thing that could salvage it is if it was an entertaining read. But it feels like it was written by someone who'd ghost-written biographies of particularly dull corporate executives, using the drab style corporations love, and then sent to the Board of Directors for vetting by ten different people.
What's left has been squeezed hard and tight of any form of brilliance or eloquence.
This is not based on any extensive examination, but I gave it a nice 20-page best shot, flipping all over the place. Bland, bland, bland.
Then I put it back on the shelf. I don't think the bookstore's sold any copies, even at the usual promotion of 30% off. They had a display with about 20 copies in the front that I walked right past without noticing. So I don't think Borders is expecting blockbuster sales of the thing. Certainly nothing like the Harry Potter Midnight Madness that was being promoted all over the place.
One thing that does seem to have been missed in the enthusiasm for the confession of Bill's adultery is that yes, she is continuing to stand behind Bill. She says several times that the relationship will continue, that this is yet another exciting chapter in it, and so on and on. You can read this for yourself in the chapter covering their wedding. Something like this: "Many people have asked why I stay with Bill ... he's the most magnetic and compelling man I've ever met ... looking forward to more exciting chapters in our life together ...".
So for those of you who are expecting an immediate divorce, don't count on it. It is my belief that Hillary has personal characteristics Bill needs and vice versa; they are much more valuable as a team than separate. They can't get along with each other, but they do need each other, in their own tortured dysfunctional way.
I would recommend this book only to masochists and insomniacs.
Hope this helps.
You'd better get off those heavy drugs, your senses are warped.
I would like to browse it, but will never buy that crap. I got Michael Moore's crappo book for free and never got past page one. I would like to keep a copy of Hillary's yawner somewhere in my archives for future reference.
For example, if you click HERE you will download a copy of Michael Moore's book, Stupid White Men. It's on servers in Italy, Russia, China and elsewhere for FREE!! Not a dime goes to fatso Moore.
Where can I get Hillary's? Someone post it when you find it!
...it feels like it was written by someone who'd ghost-written biographies of particularly dull corporate executives, using the drab style corporations love, and then sent to the Board of Directors for vetting by ten different people.
I haven't read it (though I walked by it yesterday at Borders, where they were announcing over the PA the midnight release of the latest Harry Potter) but this is exactly what I was expecting. Drab, picked over, vetted to the hilt. So it is with anything she has said or written in the past, and so it is with her new book, like a fruitcake where the tasty bits of pineapple and marischino cherry have been meticulously excised, leaving only a pasty blob. Who wants that? Answer: no one. Hillary's book is cutout bin bound.
It is a sick symbiosis, each requiring the other for their continued existence, or at least as mutual enablers of one another's evil designs.
I feel happy to be in such good company :-).
D
[UPDATED] Hillary Clinton Book Tour Calendar:
Please post the details of YOUR Hillary! FReep here
Hillary Clinton Book Tour Calendar--Freep Her Heinous Coast to Coast This Summer ^ | June 15, 2003 | kristinn [and YOU!]
Posted on 06/15/2003 9:44 PM PDT by RonDog
At the request of DC Chapter Warlord kristinn, here is an
UPDATED list of Since this "official" list from the publisher (Simon & Schuster) provides only the BASIC information about each appearance, we are asking that each of you please post the exact DETAILS about your local Hillary! FReep on this thread...
Hillary Clinton's book-signing appearances
all across the USA(from www.simonsays.com)
(Click on the "Info" link at the right of each entry for more information.)
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
The woman is clever and she is cunning, but brilliant? I don't think so, just self-serving and evil. She sucks the air out of the room she is in and so many fear her.
I think I have heard her say "I have no intention of running. Look for the weasel words.
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