Letters to the Editor
turk183
Published Letters: 6 Editor's Choice: 3
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Let's Face It...
[Read the article: Last exit to book land]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most book review sections are worthless. I read a book or two a week but I rarely, if ever, do more than skim my local book review section. Puff-pieces of the latest wunderkind thrown up by the literary PR machine are not exactly what I want to waste my time on. Plus, since most of the reviews are written by critics too scared of offending their future agents and publishers, they're no good for determining what to buy and what not to buy.
Nah. Before we raise a fuss about saving our beloved book section, we should take a long, hard look at what we're trying to save.
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Please...
[Read the article: Tony Blair's toodle-oo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brown's speech was all about spin. As the second-most-powerful politician in the country for the last ten years, Brown was co-architect with Blair on the New Labour project. Yet, incredibly enough, he tried to paint his rearranging of the deck chairs as a bold change of direction.
Really, as anyone who's watched Gordon for the last decade knows, he's a master political operator, leaking and planting stories to his heart's content. To say we're going to get less spin from him than Blair is to sound naive beyond belief.
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It's not just the quinceañera...
[Read the article: Ultimate fiesta]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You see this sort of thing spiraling way out of control in other groups as well. I grew up in northern New Jersey in the 1980s and I can remember at least a dozen blow-out Sweet Sixteen parties that must've cost a bundle. Sure, it's madness, but it isn't just confined to Latinos, no?
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On the other hand....
[Read the article: My boyfriend won't give me his apartment key]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the risk of being flamed, it could be the boyfriend is worried that the LW wants to move in. First she gets the key, than it's... "well, I'm living here anyway, why don't I give up my apartment?"
And you know what? I wouldn't have any problem with that. Here's a guy with what sounds like a reasonably important adult job, flying all over the country for work, and here's a girlfriend with at least one foot in college. If he doesn't want to take this relationship onto the next level at this point in their lives, that's fine with me.
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With all respect, XOXO....
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're wrong. This wasn't written by some demobilized African boy soldier. I mean, it's kind've obvious. The obsession with young women? The overly cute phrasings? The whole literariness of the whole thing and the complete lack of touch with reality, as if the author has been hidden up in New Hampshire for the last forty years?
It's J.D. Salinger.
Good try though.
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Oh, please
[Read the article: Our friend got drunk and went to a hotel room with a bunch of Marines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or maybe Jan simply enjoys having sex, especially with Marines who are built like Goliath.
Ok, yeah - throw her a box of condoms. And maybe tell her it's time to ditch the boyfriend, who seems to be nothing more than a safety blanket whom she's outgrown. Other than that, what can the LW really do?
Again, it's like what other people are saying. If this was a man, nobody would have a problem with it. "Oh my goodness, the other night I went out partying with a bunch of 20-year-old supermodels and - gasp, sob - I wound up having consenual sex with one of them."
Seriously, I know I sound like a pig but really, considering our sexist, youth-oriented society, the twenties are the time for women to sow their oats. Face it. They're never going (based on our prevailing, infantile standards of beauty) to be as hot ever again.