The Note

I'll run to the bookstore to buy this one. It should be retitled "How I stood by and watched my husband just about destroy a nation" Good riddance.

I'll run to the bookstore to buy this one. It should be retitled "How I stood by and watched my husband just about destroy a nation" Good riddance.
Posted by: JRS
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It's time to put down the kool-aid.
Your irrational hatred is comsuming you.

JRS,
keep your words sweet and short, you may have to eat them.

I'll save you the $24 in hardcover:

'I killed a guy with my car in High School, then I was drunk/high the rest of my life 'cause the prestige of marrying into the Bush Family was too much to pass-up/bear'.

Am I close?

This book should be a work of literary genius -- NOT.
Suggested titles: "Duh" - or - "If I only had a brain" - or - "Spacecase" -or - "Life in Denial"

$8 mln. big ones for a book completely devoid of intellectual content ? Sounds to me like an original and 'novel' way of laundering kickbacks. Somebody should probe Simon & Schuster.

How about this title:

Lessons from the First House Wife: To the Women of America - Smile, Shut-Up and Know your Place

It will be titled: LIVING WITH A IDIOT

There is an expectation that the president and his wife will put out memoirs when they leave office, and memoirs will be written about them. Whether or not his administration was a good/bad/indifferent one, he was the president and his 8 years will be memorialized.

If you don't want to read them, then don't (I won't be), but if you don't have anything intelligent to say either, then why are you leaving a comment?

On another note, the amount of money paid for Mrs. Bush's memoir is dictated by how much the book will make in sales and how much it will bring prestige to the company. There is no reason to accuse anyone of "laundering kickbacks" because if Simon and Schuster hadn't published it, someone else would have.

You may not buy this book, but every library in the country and hundreds of thousands of people probably will. That's what dictates the cost of the manuscript, just as with any other book. It's a reflection of profit projections. That American Wife became a bestseller shows that there is interest in her (although, I have read the book and I'm not sure that the high sales of that book were justified)

This book will sell copies because of who she is, not because it will be some high work of literature--that's what the heading memoir at the bookstore is for.

I can't wait to read a book written by a lady who has remained a class act all of her life! She has been an example for all American women. Good for her!