Lynn Cheney's book: Read it for yourself

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Since CNN is too god damn lazy to do any research or investigation into the matter whatsoever, choosing instead to allow Mrs. Cheney to spout off bullshit, we shall once again have to resort to the Internet for any semblance of the truth.

Excepts from Lynn Cheney's novel, "Sisters"
http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp

A simple google finds a pdf of the WHOLE THING
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=cheney+sisters+pdf&meta=


While I've been happy with CNN as of late, they still have a long way to go.

The broken government series, Lou Dobbs fighting for the middle class, and Jack Cafferty are all positive points, but giving Lynn Cheney a free microphone to spout her bullshit is not excusable.

I remember her during the Kerry campaign when she called him a "bad man" for mentioning her lesbian daughter. She is an oppourtnistic manipulative lying witch.

[Ms. Clio]

1. thanks so much for the links; the PDF is a keeper!

But god, what a turgid snoozer -- maybe later I'll scan for the naughty bits.

[momster]

2. As a writer of romance novels...

I have to say that Lynne Cheney's 'steamy scenes' are dull, duller, dullest. The key to writing a good love scene is the character's actions and emotions in the book *prior* to the big finish...so to speak. Her characters are one dimensional, unemotional, and uninteresting. So are the so-called 'love scenes.' I read Sisters when it came out or tried to because it sounded unique. It has a lot of the faults of the time period in which it was written -- when the publishing companies were trying to get the romance thing down. But it's also a very cold book -- even the characters that are described as loving and giving have a nasty selfish streak in bed -- and that might be the author's doing.

[Ms. Clio]

5. that's a very interesting analysis -- I couldn't help noticing the maid

in the first couple of pages (which was honestly as far as I could get) and thinking that was a bizarre and revealing feature, as well.

I think you are right about romance novels, though I admit I haven't read any since I was a teenager, and those were the steamier ones, like Sweet Savage Love, and whatnot. But unless you care about the characters, romance novel sex scenes are just as dull as most male-produced pornography.

[momster]

7. Sweet Savage Love

Oh, brother...we've come a long way (pardon the expression) since then. I loved that book when I was a teen. A couple of years ago, I picked up a copy of that at a used book store and started to read it as my dh drove home. Soon, he asked me, "what are you mumbling?" I was saying, "oh, just kill him, honey..." The hero was a brutal overweening bully with all the charm of a Bush Brother who practically raped the heroine every other page. And this was our idea of 'romance' when we were young...geez.

Romance novels now are a whole different world...for the most part. There's a sub-category for everybody, no matter what your zip/zing thing may be.

By the way, James Webb's stuff isn't 'steamy' either. After all, he was a republican when he wrote it and they can't seem to write steam at all. It's that 'valuing the whole person' idea that they seem to have trouble comprehending.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. .."and then the bald-headed stooge slowly dropped his trousers".

"Oh, Gawd, it was my VP husband looking for some action" Yuk!

[Ms. Clio]

6. rofl

perfecto!

[deacon]

4. Check this out! Webb's book- on the recommended books list for the US Marine Corps

"Not only that, but the Commandant of the US Marine Corps put Webb's book on the Corps' "official reading list."

Virginia Republican George Allen & Lesbian sex novelist Lynne Cheney owe the US Marine Corps an apology

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/virginia-republican-george-allen.html