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Summary: Most excellent and funny!
Review: Like the woman herself, this book is a great commentary by the legendary commentator. Highly recommend!
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Summary: She Damn Sure Can, and Does!
Review: Molly Ivins has the unusual talent of being informative and hilarious at the same time. She loves to make laughingstocks of politicians who are stupid and/or crooked, and she does a beautiful job of it. This is a book like the TV show *MASH*: it ages well. You can read Molly's columns again every year or two, and enjoy them anew. I especially love the fib Ann Richards told to the judge from East Texas. That was absolutely beautiful. If you don't remember it, read the book again; you will crack up. Molly Ivins is, indeed, a national treasure.
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Summary: She Damn Sure Can, and Does!
Review: Molly Ivins has the unusual talent of being informative and hilarious at the same time. She loves to make laughingstocks of politicians who are stupid and/or crooked, and she does a beautiful job of it. This is a book like the TV show *MASH*: it ages well. You can read Molly's columns again every year or two, and enjoy them anew. I especially love the fib Ann Richards told to the judge from East Texas. That was absolutely beautiful. If you don't remember it, read the book again; you will crack up. Molly Ivins is, indeed, a national treasure.
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Summary: Opinion of Molly Ivins's first book
Review: Molly's book is a breath of fresh air in an often stifling political world. A sentence like
To call Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short
belongs among the most memorable statements of
recent times. What if she does repeat it a couple of times? A really good idea is worth reiterating.
The only limitation of this book is that it focuses on Texas so much and does not fully represent Molly's trenchant view of the politics of the country as a whole. Her recent columns, printed even in some narrowly conservative local newspapers, remedy that lack.
If we didn't have Molly Ivins, we might be reduced to reading William F. Buckley.
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Summary: Opinion of Molly Ivins's first book
Review: Molly's book is a breath of fresh air in an often stifling political world. A sentence like
To call Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short
belongs among the most memorable statements of
recent times. What if she does repeat it a couple of times? A really good idea is worth reiterating.
The only limitation of this book is that it focuses on Texas so much and does not fully represent Molly's trenchant view of the politics of the country as a whole. Her recent columns, printed even in some narrowly conservative local newspapers, remedy that lack.
If we didn't have Molly Ivins, we might be reduced to reading William F. Buckley.
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Summary: Read this in high school and loved it
Review: Then I grew up. Apparently Miss Ivens remains in sophomoric adolescence.
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Summary: Molly Ivins - National Treasure
Review: There is no one quite like Molly Ivins. As a political and social commentator, she combines insight, analysis and wicked humour with irresistible charm and gusto. Her affection for the good ol' boys of Texas only makes her critiques of them all the more powerful and pointed. No wonder they wanted her sacked. America is fortunate to have such a wonderful writer at work. She entertains, informs and, basically, just makes the idiocy and awfulness of politics just that bit more bearable.
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Summary: Her earliest work, and by far her best.
Review: This is Molly Ivins' earliest book, a collection of many of her earliest columns, originally printed in such places as "Ms. Magazine", "The Progressive", and "McCalls". Those of you who have only seen her more recent work may not have realized that she used to be funny; this collection should remedy that situation. It's been years since I've seen a column by Ms. Ivins (who is syndicated weekly in my local newspaper) that earned even a chuckle from me; she's still frequently very insightful, even if I do disagree with her periodically, but she seems to have lost her sense of humor somewhere along the line. This book was my first exposure to her, and is the reason that I continue to at least skim her columns every time: I know what she's capable of. I just wish she'd go back to the style that she used in the columns collected here, rather than the perfectly standard, polite, "civilized" style that she seems to practice these days.
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Summary: lives up to the title, a laugh riot
Review: This, Ivins' first book, is a collection of her columns. She is one of the better-known writers on Texas politics and has a national following.Strongest point about the book? As the title implies, she says things that many in her home state of Texas find outrageous. (To the credit of Texans, they seem not to hold it against her too much; in fact, there is something characteristically and enjoyably Texan about her 'let it all hang out' style.) She is dearly fond of her homeland and in fact of most people, which is how she can be critical without carping. Recommended either as a book on humour, a book on Texas attitudes, or a book on near-current affairs--take your pick. Denied five stars only due to the fact that all the material has appeared elsewhere before and is not original content, but if that's not a negative for you, feel free to see it as five stars.
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Summary: Stale, smug, condescending
Review: Why hasn't Molly Ivins disappeared yet? Can't she be replaced? Is there really such a shortage of Ann Richards disciples in the world? Her politics are very stale indeed, but any editorial writer with similar politics would be an improvement on her. The real irritant in her writing is not her politics, but her style and persona as demonstrated in this self-description of her newspaper days. "...I would denounce some sorry sumbitch...as an egg suckin' child-molester who ran on all fours and had the brains of an adolescent pissant, I would courageously prepare myself to be horse-whipped at the least." All columnists seem happiest when writing about themselves and this passage is intended to be funny (this might need to be pointed out), but it is still a fair sample of her writing. What person (from Texas or anywhere else) wouldn't find this overdone impersonation of a redneck condescending? And who would buy a book that has so much smugness implicit in its title?
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