Lynne Cheney book shocking on several levels

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/08/16/morris081604.html

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading inclines to best sellers by Bill Clinton, the 9-11 commission, John Dean and Tommy Franks ... real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known political figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are fornication (the heroine with her late sister's husband), incest (half-brother knocks up half-sister), adultery (the heroine, with her first husband's friend), contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and lesbian couplings (the heroine's sister and an older woman). And incidentally, lynchings, dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband became one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before the author became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is ... aha, you thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is a frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's sexy and it's out of print.

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on edit: I hate posting this crap, but this is war.

[Journeyman]

1. Dogicide? Tell me it ain't so, Ms Crashcart. . .

tell me you wouldn't sink so low.. .

[SoCalDem]

3. Sounds like a book for Regnery to re-release..

:)..

[IndianaGreen]

2. Wow!

Just the sort of literary masterpiece that should be on Amazon!

[stevedeshazer]

4. If you can find a copy, it's worth at least three grand

Another snippet from the article:

"On the Internet, the original 1981 $2.50 Signet paperback has an asking price of $2,999.95 to $25,000, the latter more than the cost of a first edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

So, are the rich driving up the price to:

1) collect memorabilia, or

2) keep it out of public scrutiny?

[incapsulated]

5. Neither

I'm sure it's completely due to it's worth as a great lost work of literature.

;)

[Old and In the Way]

6. Let's take up a collection on DU......

We can publish a chapter a week in the Lounge and discuss. Should draw a lot of eyes onto the site!

[notadmblnd]

9. No sex threads allowed.

but I am going to look through my books.

[otohara]

7. Randi Rhodes Show Has Been Reading It Aloud

it's funny... they introduce like a radio soap opera. And now more from Sisters...a book written by Lynne Cheney, read by Joan somebody...

[barb162]

8. that link said she has a doctorate in lit

that has to be a mistake; that woman is so damned stupid.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. God I'd love to get a copy of that

but I don't have an extra 3 grand, and if I did, there's better things to spend it on than a trashy old paperback.

I wonder if I could find one in a used book store, or a garage sale.

[gatorboy]

11. Those prices are a load of hooey!

I'm sure they'd looove to make the prices for an out of print Cheney book look impressive, but just check Ebay, even in the completed auctions, they never went for more then $350.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4103&item=6917055726&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Don't buy the hype. It's going for alot but not $25,000.