[vikingcelt]

Why should we make a fuss about the book???!!! Because it's not every day or every year or every decade that we are given such a gift. The gift of great writing from a woman with GUTS. No, it's not a revelation but could you write such a book? Perhaps you just can't relate to the passion...

[jdege]

I'm not trying to slam the book, only to discuss the lack of hysteria with which it has been received, here.

The Europeans have been in deep denial, and the book is a direct attack on the foundations of that denial.

Of course, they find it upsetting.