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Title: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivins ISBN: 0-679-74183-6 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Us conservatives are yawning already...
Comment: If you are the type of person who likes to harrass people for their values, include emotionally abusing terms of language in your sarcastic, one-sided speech, and literally HATE and LOATHE people who do not agree with your values, then this is the book for you.
It was not the book for me, and I hope that you concur. Reading this woman's columns in the paper alone is sickening enough. Imagine a full book of her hateful words against people who are not really evil and awful, like she implies.
If you took out any words that were sarcastic, she would be rendered unable to communicate. Please, do not waste your money on this book when you can decide for YOURSELF what your values are, and not be enforced by an awful example such as the scrap of rubbish that she wrote.
Rating: 5
Summary: Her earliest work, and by far her best.
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Yer darn tootin' she can say that!
Comment: I've only recently begun to pay an active attention to politics. I may have paid attention to topics in the past, at least more than the majority of Americans since I did vote, but I didn't really search out information. These days, however, I tune to NPR for the coverage of certain issues, and will catch a newspaper or magazine article if the topic really intrigues me. It doesn't necessarily help me make political decisions any better than before, but I am better able to communicate my opinions.
I'm sure no one ever told Molly Ivins that she had trouble communicating her opinions, though. Communicate them she does, with a drawl and a wry grin. I'm sad that I've only recently started to search out information, because I would have loved to have read this essays by Ivins when they were topical. After the fact, they're enjoyable, especially since I lived in Texas during the time the majority of these essays were written. Some of the topics I recall vaguely, like the Gib-erish of Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis ("I cannot tell you how grateful I am--I am filled with humidity." "I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session."). Other topics I knew intimately, like the furor over Governor Mark White's "No Pass, No Play" rule.
It was fun to revisit those days and to catch up on those things I had missed because I was too busy playing around at school. Ivins' style is so full of Texas itself that it was scary--I felt like I was back amongst those dumb Aggies (a quick wave to my bubba!) and crazy rednecks. I even felt homesick for a moment--then I remembered: Texas, it's a good place to visit, but I've already lived there.
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Title: Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose, Lou Dubose, Molly Ivins ISBN: 0375757147 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America by Lou Dubose, Molly Ivins ISBN: 0375507523 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You by Molly Ivins ISBN: 0679754873 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Nothin' But Good Times Ahead by Molly Ivins ISBN: 0679754881 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates by Jim Hightower ISBN: 0060932090 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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