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I just heard that Britney Spears has received a sizeable advance for writing a book, with her mother. Surely even the Bard would not want us to suffer this particularly outrageous fortune?
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I would not take the book as a gift, but I can see no basis for objecting to her writing one, and if enough people want it to make her rich, so be it. What is the harm? Us old fogeys can ignore it.
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With her mother? What do you suppose will be the division of labor on that project? And what type of book? Autobiography? Tell-all? Fiction (or does that go without saying)? How-to? Children's? Self-help? Oh, the possibilities!
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Oh the possibilities!
According to a news story I read, the book is about a teenage girl who dreams of becoming a star. *Yawn*
At least she's writing about something she is familiar with. (Or should that be, with which she is familiar...?)
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Be careful what you say about Britney. You think you are safe just because you are on AWADTALK (wink), but if her fans find out they just might spear you.
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ever the one for the unpopular opinion.......
okay, classical music is my first love, but it's all good. i balked when my 9-yr-old stepdaughter brought one of her CD's into my home, but she's actually not all that bad. give her a break... she's marketable as heck (who could honestly not LOVE her pants???... i need the name of her tailor) and her songs are catchy. they certainly won't be remembered in 100 years, or even in 30 (i'm a die-hard Steely Dan/CSN/eagles fan myself) but she's earned her 15 minutes of fame.
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A young person wants to write a book that other young people will buy and read?
Hurrah I say ... Never discourage a young person from writing. And anything that starts other young people off on the Way of Words is to be encouraged, say I!
And if her Mother is garnering some royalties to sock away against her old age, well, what's wrong with that?
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A young person wants to write a book that other young people will buy and read?
Hurrah I say ... Never discourage a young person from writing. And anything that starts other young people off on the Way of Words is to be encouraged, say I!
Well said, wow. Intellectual snobbery is very catchy, and almost always counterproductive.
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And jealousy too tempting.
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This current discussion reminds me of hearing someone criticize the Harry Potter books as nothing but drivel - children would be better off reading nothing - and on and on in that vein. A friend of mine noted that, first, anything that gets a child to read should be applauded; and second (speaking of the critic): there's a man who has an unpublished manuscript somewhere!
The point being: envy is also counterproductive.
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