(25-11-2009, 08:21 AM)Mid Life Crisis Man Wrote: I wasn't really taken by Welch's 26.2 when I read it, and offered it free to anyone who wanted it. No-one did! Now I'm probably stuck with it until it gets thrown in some church or school fete thing. She seems to suffer the standard journalist's syndrome of not realising when they are being offensive. Pity. More pitisome is that I paid full price for the book. 
Yep, I remember you not being too impressed by it. I stand by it. I've read it twice, and it made its mark on me. I don't remember her being offensive in the book though. I thought she treated the characters quite affectionately. Do you mean offensive in the article? I'd agree with that, except the paper it comes from, the Daily Mail, makes its impressive profits from being offensive and clumsy and populist. Given the political leaning of the paper, the true purpose of the article was just to ridicule a politician it dislikes, but as usual they managed to scatter the painful pellets over a much wider area.
