Sure. Like I wasn't gonna post this:
"By the way, Kathy Shaidle has a new e-book out. I'm so square I'm not sure I quite know what that is, but I've read it, and it reads like an old-fashioned non-e-book, only better. You should get it. (...)(PS: you can download a free sample chapter if you want...) Posted by KShaidle at January 14, 2008 7:42 AM"She has fans around the world: in the course of the last year, I've sat in a restaurant on the beach at Malibu and at the Savoy Grill in London and listened to various long-distance admirers regale me with favourite examples of her prose..."
Kathy: I Can't seem to figure out how to download the free chapter. Can you give me some direction here?
Posted by: a different Bob at January 14, 2008 8:51 AMSure.
Go to the book's site at Lulu:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1762097
Click on Preview this Item (the button just below the cover)
That automatically opens a PDF with the chapter.
If that doesn't work for you, let me know.
"These things happen when a species that can barely program its VCRs decides to invent a new religion"...........or to attempt to "rationalize" the irrational in a culture still capable of critical thought...in relating this very human experience Kathy,
I now realize where your insight into the more absurd tenets of relativist culture comes from....I suppose if you once walked knee-deep in Moonbat guano, you recognize it when you see it. ;-)
Allegory with vivid metaphors Kathy...Certainly worth the effort ;-)
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 14, 2008 8:57 AMHey, just spend a few bucks guy.
BUY the download BOOK!!
Posted by: Joe Molnar at January 14, 2008 9:31 AMIt's good to see Mark Steyn is behind you Kathy.
"...but to read some of the non-Muslim responses in Maclean's or at the CBC website or The Calgary Herald is to wonder how many Canadians are auditioning to be the eunuchs in the new caliph's harem." - Steyn
Here as well. From Conservatives no less.
Posted by: irwin daisy at January 14, 2008 9:34 AMGood on ya, Kathy!
Posted by: mark peters at January 14, 2008 9:48 AMI can say I like your style of writing Kathy, but if your book really is all about Wicca I'd rather not bother. Unless you can link the Wiccan folks in with the Gaia worshippers that are promoting crazy environmentalism, and then maybe I can see its relevance.
Posted by: CanuckInMI at January 14, 2008 11:35 AMNot sure how anyone who has _clicked through the links_ and read Steyn's comments in full could possibly conclude that my book is "all about Wicca."
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at January 14, 2008 2:27 PMGive the poor guy a break Kathy, he's in Michigan. They put stuff in the water there to make you stoopid.
Posted by: The Phantom at January 14, 2008 2:40 PMI just clicked on the links you gave me to click on, and which led to a preview of the book that talked quite a bit about the fallacies of Wicca. Perhaps I saw the wrong preview? I was looking for some good conservative meat to chew on with a recommendation from a guy like Mark Steyn.
Posted by: CanuckInMI at January 14, 2008 11:02 PMWell ...
"The Kiss of the Spidery-Eyelash Woman" is one of the chapter titles, but no mention of Wiccans. On the other hand, "legions of Gay men" is a phrase used in that chapter. And the remainder of the book is ...
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs at January 14, 2008 11:18 PMNever mind, CanuckInMI, it's obvious the rest of the book would be too hard for you to understand...
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at January 15, 2008 7:21 AMNever mind, Canuck. I suspect the rest of the book would be too hard for you to understand anyway.
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at January 15, 2008 8:06 AM'Never mind, Canuck. I suspect the rest of the book would be too hard for you to understand anyway.'
Hey, I just read what you had out there for public view. I guess what you're trying to sell here is a bunch of rehashed old columns from ages ago. Perhaps if you want people to read it you could write something new.
Posted by: CanuckInMI at January 15, 2008 8:24 AM