I have never read Klein. Now I know that I don't need to. I like the Maria Von Trapp story best. I will never be able to look at "my favorite things" in quite the same way. Have you ever thought of taking a historical peek at that vicious Emily Dickinson? She is just begging to be exposed.

But I want to read the rest of that last one!

If he believes all women are grasping and manipulative, I feel sorry for him. He'll never have a normal relationship with a woman -- miss out on half the population.

I get tired of hearing Gerald Ford called a "lummox" or "klutz". How did he make All-American?

As for Hillary (I am no fan), anyone can see that she got where she is the same way that men do: intelligence, ambition and drive. You do not have to agree with her to recognize how capable she is.

Say, I figger good people assume others are good and manipulative people assume others are manipulative and evil folks assume everyone is evil. If I'm right, if we all project, then Edward Klein is....

There are probably just a handful of us who know Edward Klein by name as a nonpareil sleaze artist who makes Kitty Kelly seem like a Boswell, but on behalf of all six or seven of us, I'd like to thank you for this brilliant takedown, even if down for Klein measures about two-and-a-half inches above the gutter.

Yuck, he makes everything and anything feel sleezy.

The one about Hillary. Couldn't resist, it was on sale. At the Dollar Store. No joke.

To put it simply, this is horrible writing. One minute Betty Ford is a desperate ex-dancing divorcee, and the next she has her steely grip on her new husband--give me a break.

It is obvious from reading the first paragraphs that Klein has issues with women. Maybe he should write a book about his mother, and get it over with instead of defaming others.

“She was also so stuck up, like she was some great beauty, and Jane was much prettier than she was,” recalls embittered sister Lydia of adventuress Elizabeth Bennet. “She thought she was too good for that perfectly nice Rev. Collins.”

The minister himself was discrete about his disappointment, noting that the Lady Catherine de Burgh had come to accept “Lizzy’s” marriage to her nephew and refused to hear anything said ill of her or even entertain those she suspected of speaking ill of Mrs. Darcy.

“She liked to pretend it was just Lydia and myself who went chasing after officers in Meriton, but believe me, she and Jane were in for many a “kill” if you catch my drift,” said Other Embittered Sister Kitty, who married a chap from the neighborhood possessed of only a modest income.

Wickham offers some gratitude to Darcy for bailing him out of his various debts, but has nothing but scorn for his wife. “You have to love the way she just happened to show up at Pemberley when Darcy was about to arrive. Tell me her uncle hadn’t bribed some of the Pemberley servants for that little bit of information.”

The former Georgina Darcy pretends to like Lizzy Darcy and not to resent the way her brother muscled her away from the man what insiders say was her true love, Wickham, in favor of a Bennet sister. But insiders report considerable resentment, even as The Tatler reports she is happily married to a rising Parliamentary gent and devoted to their three children.

The youngest Bennet sister, Mary, refused to be interviewed for this book, discussing her refusal at considerable length with the author, who was at some pains in his attempt to end the disagreeable conversation.

Forgive me, but I too was rather suspicious that Elizabeth Bennett just happened to turn up at Pemberley. Of all the rich joints of all the estates in all of England, she showed up there? I cannot help but whispering wherever I go that these author-types will stop at nothing to manipulate a plot.

Ed Furey, I think I love you.

And someone mistook it for the real thing. Uh-oh. But don't feel embarrassed. My husband did the same thing and so didn't bother to read it.

Let's do a send-up of Jane Eyre next--she's an obvious hussy, stealing Rochester from his much-put-upon wife. He told her it was a modernized master suite, but it was really an attic.

There's a blog that mocks him every single weekend for his "work" in Parade. It's hysterical, particularly when he catches Klein in out right lies: http://todgoldberg.typepad.com/tod_goldberg/letters_to_parade/index.html

I really enjoyed the article and its contents. I have no comment on the authenticity of the underlying work in Klein's books, however, only that if his books are as enjoyable to read as this article they should be best-sellers.

Hey Salon, post the author's name. I'd love to read more from this author.