How could Bernadette ever hate Keith Stewart?
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I was given a copy of this book by the publisher to write a blurb for the author, and I'm thankful for the gift!

Crying laughing. With every page turn, Keith Stewart won my heart just a little bit more. His humor is fresh. His stories vivid. I'd beg, borrow and steal Bill and Ted's time machine to be a fly on the wall anywhere near Keith. A peek into his life is a most excellent adventure.
2591938
She just never goes away.  She just keeps coming back and back and...you get the point.  Ugh! That girl is horrible. I hate her! If she exsisted in real life, I would slap her! She makes me angry and i do not want to read anything that makes me feel that way.  It had too much drama about Nan.  It never gets resolved.  She is the same in everybook.  I was hoping that after her little stunt she pulled that she would somehow redeem herself and at least be a little bit civil to Blaire.  It was way past due IMO.  Besides the evil troll B----! I liked it ok.  I'm a huge Abbi fan, but this just wasent my fav of hers.  Take your time Abbi, we can wait.  :)

Oh, all the letters and gifts before the wedding.  Awwww!  That was perfect.
1778496
Has the author intentionally made the main character, Lanoe, hateable? The character ruins the lives of everyone in the series yet they stay devoted to him. Not something you usually get with a hero character. Author also throws out lots of wierd terminology with no definition.
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Why is Ann Coulter so widely disdained?  It must be because she makes herself unlikeable in what she writes and how she conducts herself when she's invited to appear on a TV program, which she has been more often than her personality and ideas would seem to merit.  If she had a strong case to make and a convincing body of evidence to support it, and if she presented her case with a respectful demeanor, she could still be forceful and no one would be able to resist the power of that.  But that's not how she works.  She wants to play the role of provocateur, with a dash of primping vanity, using her twisted logic and suspect data instead of truly persuasive ideas.

To put it more bluntly in terms she can relate to, Ann Coulter is a vainglorious shrew, spouting venom and disconnected from reality.  She's not interested in rational discourse or any type of dialogue at all. She's only interested in venting her distorted and usually mean-spirited view of society.  She's not a true conservative but a reactionary who seems to obtain her greatest thrill from inflammatory remarks, and therefore will say or do whatever is necessary to provoke her listeners.

If you wonder why she's defensive when appearing on a TV program (mostly to promote her diatribes) where she invariably makes enemies of her interviewers, try examining her offensive writings, and take notice of how disrespectful she is of her host, how she talks over anyone else without bothering to listen to their questions or comments because she's only interested in her own voice.  She invites the treatment she receives; in fact, she seems hellbent on creating a furor as proof of her power and her worth.  The outrageous nonsense she spouts in print and on air is simply her way of inciting violence.  She inflames prejudice and aggravates her perceived enemies even before she arrives, and she makes matters worse by creating conflict rather than trying to defuse it, showing her mouth works but her ears don't. So don't be surprised when agitation goes further on air.  As the ultimate combatant in the din of talking heads, she is the most disagreeable and most self-centered of them all.

She has all the qualities most prized in a talk-show antagonist.  She's smug, supercilious, endlessly opinionated but narrowly focused, intolerant of other's views, and generally obnoxious.  She shifts into combat gear unless you bow down to her presumed superiority, let her talk without interruption, and don't ask any questions that would challenge her warped ideas or her abrasive personality.

As one example, take her insolent way of responding to Geraldo Rivera in a recent Fox interview when he tried to ask her questions she didn't wish to address.  She was apparently laboring under the impression that she would only be hearing softball questions previously agreed upon.  So she turned prickly  as soon as he tried to ask something off script, from her point of view.  Rivera was visibly taken aback by her diva behavior, unsure of how to react when she flew into her little snit that seems to be standard operating procedure.

What makes her doubly obnoxious as a personality on TV is her vanity and all its manifestations. (It comes through in her writing as well.) The preening, the frequent tossing of her perfect hair, the wardrobe that seems to shout "I'm as hot as a supermodel, but I'm a babe with a brain, damn it!"  Unfortunately, beneath all this narcissism and blustering, she comes across as incredibly insecure.  No one tries this hard unless they're desperate for attention and yet expecting the worst.  She's hostile from the start, combative in an attempt to protect her fragile self-esteem.

I would hope that thoughtful conservatives would cringe at her manner as well as her remarks, and would disavow any link with her notion of conservatism. It seems to me that she gives the more honorable conservatives a black eye.  In this regard, she has kinship with Sarah Palin.
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You have to be careful reading her books. She makes ridiculous assertions in her blog peopled by only her supporters. She contends that Richard Gloucester s marriage to Anne Neville was illegal. No it wasn't. That's because she has no understanding of marriage law at the time. Their dispensation for affinity has been found dating to 1472.
  They didn't have a secret ceremony so no priest would have married them without all the dispensations. It's his brother s marriage that was illegal, but Higgenbotham is a classic Richard hater.
  Before you take her at face value read John Ashdown Hill and Annette Carson's books. Annette was hostile to Richard until she dug into the facts. Now she is his most ardent defender.
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Dale Wasserman seems from this account to be pretty much full of himself.  But his arrogance is balanced by his disdain for almost everybody else he's ever worked with (except Joan Deiner, whom he must have had some sort of thing for.)

We are told in the first chapter that "Man of La Mancha" is the most popular show of the twentieth century.  (Don't get me wrong, I've always loved the show, even though I always thought the book was kind of maniuplative.)  We are also told that anybody who claims otherwise is a liar.  So I won't dare argue.

In the last chapter he lashes out at anyone who uses the phrase "The Impossible Dream."  We are told that the dream must indeed be impossible to be described as such and if someone attains it they are misusing the phrase because that would indicate that it was possible.  But, excuse me, isn't the title of this book "The Impossible Musical"?  Which is it?  Possible or impossible?

The chapters in between are filled with character assasinations and more contradictions.  Like, for instance, the statement that he doesn't have any place that he calls home.  And yet he has a house in Arizona that he won't leave.  How is that not a home?

Finally, someone please tell Mr. Wasserman that the star of the London production was Keith Michell, not Keith Mitchell.
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This man disliked his mother-in-law.  He constantly belittled her in life and is trying to make a buck off her death.  Guess getting all her money wasn't enough for him. Don't waste your money on his version of reality especially when one considers this was his 3rd or 4th mother-in-law.
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I love this series and I love Tillie Cole so the book was well written. My problem is, the main couple was just straight up unlikable in this book. I'm sorry but Rider claiming he didn't know about the assaults happening to women and children in the commune DOES NOT absolve him of guilt considering multiple people told him about it over the course of the series. He wasn't given any responsibility by the narrative and we were meant to feel sorry for him when the assaults on the children and Lilah were completely his fault.

I couldn't forgive Rider so I already went into this negatively. As an actual character, Rider was a whiny mess. He spent the entire book asking people to kill him and I wanted them to just so he would stop being such a whiny loser. Harmony was okay but I was not a fan of her comforting him when she was the one who had been tortured her entire life. Other characters noted how fierce she was so I couldn't understand how she could forgive Rider. He was basically the president of the death cult that allowed her and her sisters to be assaulted their entire lives. Their romantic relationship was just not convincing to me at all.

On the plot side of things this book was the book of convenience. So Sister Ruth is Rider's mother? Bella is alive? Brother Stephen is Mae/Maddie's father? I could have handled one ridiculous plot point but having multiple ones made the book too outlandish.

I'm going to still continue the series but this is definitely a low point for me. I never cared to see Rider redeemed and living back with the Hangmen. I would have preferred it if he had died sacrificing himself to atone for his sins.
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Never heard of Keith Green? Neither had my friend Raeph until one day he was sitting in a public square and a shaggy-haired young man about his own age sat down next to him with a guitar and, in a few minutes, had led Raeph to Jesus. But that's not all Keith has done, not by a long shot.

Keith Green was real. He was flawed, he knew it, yet his flaws never stopped him. He made mistakes, yes. You've never made a mistake? Drop the rock and get on your knees.

But, he was anti-Catholic, wasn't he? No, he was anti-lies. Like Jesus. Every Christian denomination needs to be cleaned up, Keith may have taken too hard of a line about that and a few other things, but if you've never been ministered to by his words and music, now would be the time. A little foretaste of what you'll hear him doing a little later in the game.
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Absolutely hated Lydia and both Bennett parents in this retelling of musical-chair engagements.  Much of it was humorous and ending was well managed; however, I just can't get past "way too much -- uncontrolled -- Lydia."  Where was Mr Bennet throughout this story?  There was 0% parental influence or control and in order to make story work every one had to overlook the MAJOR possibility that  -- given Lydia's ongoing behavior -- she was not lying.  Even Elizabeth made excuses for everything.  Someone in this story needed to seriously bitch-slap Lydia sort out reality.  Surely Someone can write a story where Lydia is seen for what she is written to be, is punished for her actions, or in some way grows.
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I just watched her at the Thanksgiving halftime show. Who was the genius to put such lame material at every half time show? Stop mixing sports with such worthless entertainment. This is not entertainment, it is just grating, irritating. Her albums must not be selling to waste her Thanksgiving playing in front of an audience that really could care less about. Maybe she should go to France and perform at the Tour de France. Now I know why the French hate us. To top it all off in her politics, she hates Bush, but has no qualms with playing in Republican Texas in front of Conservative Cowboys fans. Thanks for ruining my Thanksgiving
4456778
I have read the first five books in this series. I can't stand Rose. I wish I had a dime for every time I read that she put her hands on her hips. Joe is 100% correct, things happen to her and around her because she snoops and causes trouble that other people have to get her out of. She is very mean to her sister. Rose needs to be adored and it's all about her. I like  Violet, Joe and Mason and the other characters. Hate crybaby Rose. Nosy and annoying. Keeps saying she is proud to be on her own, huh? She has done nothing on her own except get into trouble and put her sister down to anyone who will listen. In one book she calls herself an overprotective dog owner. I laughed out loud. She ignores poor Muffy 95% of the time. Locks her in the bathroom when she leaves the house. In Rose's own childish words - Crappie Doodles.
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This is my most hated book I have ever read, bar none.  And I have read a lot of books.  I've never been so annoyed while reading a book.  Supposedly a pleasurable activity.  I was actually rooting for Tibbie to go back with the former lover who impregnated and abandoned her.  She'd be better off with him than with Nick.  What a clod.  All he had to say was "I love you, will you marry me?" and the book would have ended at the halfway point. BUT NO.  She had to tell him she loved him, FIRST.  Why is he so insistent?  When he knows all she's been through before with her former lover?  It doesn't make any sense except that the author had no plot.  If you read this book you will be wasting your time and money.  I simply can't say enough bad things about it, as I don't have my thesaurus handy.
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I hated Keith the boy, but I liked Keith the film.

Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is a beautiful, talented achiever on the fast track to a Duke tennis scholarship. As a high school senior she dates Rafael, a handsome South American exchange/transfer student (Ignacio Serricchio), and seems to have a happy life.

Her chemistry lab partner is Keith (Jesse McCartney), an intelligent, self absorbed, egotistical teen with a really bad attitude. McCartney acted the part well, because he made me intensely dislike the character. Keith is constantly playing with Natalie's mind but--wouldn't you know it--she falls for him.

With 16 minutes to go, we find that Keith has terminal cancer and has been secretly taking chemo. In an intense confrontation at the airport in which Keith is about to board a plane to places unknown, he admits he at first hated Natalie for her perfect life while his is so bad, but grew attached to her; he once again tries to break it off with her. She reminds him that she loves him and is committed to him. They kiss goodbye passionately.

Segue to "later", Keith apparently dies because the final scenes show Natalie fixing up his truck and driving it to a car show that Keith wanted to go to in London, Ontario...by herself.

Elisabeth Harnois shows star potential and gives the best performance; there's good acting in the supporting roles, too. No nudity, no sex, a few kisses, no drugs, some mild cursing. This film is basically a rocky love story that exasperates you but keeps you interested throughout. A better than average film.
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She's wonderful as a standup, but in this book, it's just doesn't work. The 'anger' that works so well on stage is somehow a complete turn off in this book. And for all her railing against Whites whites whites and especially white males, painting huge and nasty stereotypical portraits of them, one comes away wondering-- hey, Margaret, who exactly is the racist here?
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I am one of those readers who starts and book and finishes it no matter what I think of it. I don't think I've ever said this-and I read a LOT-I actively disliked this book. Lord knows I tried. Yes, there are interesting historical bits about London, Collins, Dickens, and lots of tidbits of an interesting time in literature. That being said, I don't remember the last time I've so disliked characters. If the authors point was to show how despicable these two icons of British literature were then he's done a magnificent job. By the end of the book I would have gladly shot Wilke Collins-in fact, the author seems to press the point that he WANTS us to hate this narcissistic, hateful, deceitful lout. How on earth did this get published?

Not an enjoyable read. I would not only not recommend it-I would actively dissuade people from bothering with it at all.
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Besides being a well written book and having interesting details about the mansion this book is extremely petty and an overall Holly pity party and Playboy and Celebrity bashing book.  Nothing but negative things about every person she came in contact with in her life. She painted the picture of how perfect, kind, and hardworking she was and how terrible everyone around her was. Really told different playmates and Hughs storys through her eyes, which was all negative. She spoke about the mansion as if she was held as a captitive prisoner. I actually found the entire book irritating and can no longer stand her.