What are we coming to?

[mariner2]

J*** G****'s biography at number 1 in WH Smith.
WTF is wrong with people?

[Tallulah!]

I don't know about WTF (Chelsea supporter, presumably) but why shouldn't people be curious about her story? She wasn't a bad person and has done a lot of good promoting an awareness of cervical cancer.
I haven't bought the book but might if I see it in a Charity shop.
What sort of stuff do you read, mariner2?

[mariner2]

Done a lot of good??
By becoming the worst possible role model for every uneducated teenage girl in the country you mean, and ensuring that we will be overrun with Vicki Pollard chavs.
She was ignorant, foul-mouthed and revolting in just about every way, and only did the awareness of cancer bit at Max Clifford's insistence so he could string out the cash cow a bit longer. Just my opinion , of course.

[Tallulah!]

You are foul mouthed too! Many people use the f-word because of their upbringing. She did. Do you? I found her ok and not at all revolting and if she was uneducated that's hardly her fault.
I didn't know of her existance until the papers were full of her story.
She adored her children and new husband so that is good.
I only know of Eve Pollard.
Am interested to know which book should be No. 1 and did you buy it?

[garner]

I can understand where you are coming from mariner, but people must be buying the book for it to be number one.It's not a book I would buy, but then each to their own.

[mariner2]

Yeah, well, the Sun is the best selling "newspaper" too . . . . . . as I said, what are we coming to?
I'm reading two or three books at the moment Tallulah, Rik Mayall's autobiography and a novel called Ferney.

[sara3]

you're obviously better than the rest of us, mariner :o)

[mariner2]

That's totally unfair!
Only the people that buy the Sun and that biography.

[tamborine]

rik mayall (old hat comedy nose picking humor) Ferney (science fiction). Jade's biography - reality!

'Live in the now' mariner2.

[mariner2]

Oh, I see - so as long as it's "now", it is superior literature to all the classics ever written irrespective of the content?
I didn't realise, sorry.

[tamborine]

Smith's dont push classics 'cause not commercially viable - Smith's know what sells best!

[sara3]

no one is saying it's a classic. people can choose to read what they wish, it doesn't make them better or worse than the rest of us. personally, I occasionally watch rubbish tv, but it doesn't make me any less intelligent (check out this spelling!) or a lower class.

anyway, if the book is at no. 1 it suggests that her "fans" a)have money, b) they choose to spend it on books and c) they can, and indeed do read.

be impressed!

[mariner2]

I think you mean depressed?

[mariner2]

Look, I just happen to agree with this - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/art s_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article604865 6.ece

except for the bit about being significant.

[jno]

the fourth-best-selling book on Amazon's list (this is international, not UK) isn't even going to be published for another four months. I have no idea what this says about anyone.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/r ef=sv_b_3

The bestselling British books on that list appear to be a cookery book from the BBC and some articles on medical malpractice from the Guardian. Bear in mind that W H Smith sells only a very limited range of books these days.

[marval]

Please don't assume that all "Sun" readers are ignorant. I haven't read Jade's book and I don't really want to. Having said that there is nothing wrong with people who do.