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That's another thing as well - That's so cruel! How could you be so nasty. :D

But it also seemed like I'm not sure how much of that is really spoiler, but I wouldn't read it before the book..

Right, I've finished it. Ooooh, it was good. Eva was caustic and unpleasant, and I didn't trust her at all (how modern...). Notice how she messes up Kevin's "half-cocked" smile a few times? First it's on the right, then it's on the left. This may be the author, but I prefer to think it shows...

Oh pants. Now I feel stupid. Plus, it shows me up as making assumptions about gender based on opinion. Please feel free to ignore me henceforth :D

Despite headlines like "It Was The Sun Wot Won It!"...

:D I found that refreshing too. Although the fantasy geek part of me was thinking "There should be dragons about now..." I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would. Like you said, too much pseudo-science. However, it was entirely different from most books I've ever read, which isn't...

This from the Express? How surprising... Never one for a sweeping generalisation, the Express has been responsible for some of the most upright and sensible journalism in the last twenty years. And the spelling is always as impeccable as the sentiment.

:D Sadly female PMs have a terrible past history. If, indeed, we've ever truly had one. Damn you Maggie! I think I'd like to be US President, because then you get two countries for the price of one. But you'd all have to cope with me abolishing the death penalty, and televangelism on the basis...

That was what I like to call a joke. Evidently I'm terrible at it. So is the issue of world poverty. And nuclear war. And religious hatred. But the discussion is about prejudice against women. (Actually it's about books and intelligence, but we'll pretend we haven't derailed the thread for...

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens. It's a classic and it deserves it. So any criticisms are made from the standpoint of loving it anyway. I prefer the first two volumes to the third, for the reason that Pip gets steadily more annoying towards the end. His ingratitude is astounding and he...

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver - only about 50 pages in, but impressed so far. Shriver doesn't feel the need to introduce sentimentality in the prison visit - another author might have had Eva breaking into tears and shrieking "where did I go wrong?", where she has Eva expressing...

Actually, pretty much any Hardy book meets the brief. You're almost waiting for that trademark Hardy moment where every single thing in the protaganist's life falls apart, and then they probably die. Try Jude the Obscure. (Not to give the impression I don't like him - I love Hardy completely...

I'm surprised you can't hear the knives being sharpened already :D

Isn't this the basis of all argument and opinion? Not to get too far into the debate, I would just comment that although there are instances of men being discriminated against on the basis of gender, the instances for women are far more numerous. Just because it happens to men too doesn't...

This den of iniquity is otherwise known as the only fat camp for kids in europe - run by none other than my very own, vey sexist, school. Grrr, arrgh. True. Even the things that were aimed to help have worsened the image of the female politician - "Blair's Babes" springs to mind. And...

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week... Glad to provide a service, at the small cost of your extortionate (probably) internet connection. I note you called your post "Uppity Women", which amused me.

If it's not too much hassle, you're probably busy... Possibly. Literary fiction seems to be a different thing from literature these days. Maybe I should have said "fiction" instead. Standards are dropping everywhere, it seems, and you're right - this is deeply worrying (although kids don't...

While I agree that qualifications are far more important than gender, I think that gender equality in work is a myth. Or in my experience anyway. Up until last year, where I work, the male workers were paid nearly twice as much as the female, for doing exactly the same job - a job at which women...

Oh, that was brilliant. I've never seen the Da Vinci Code discussed on the same terms as pornography before...! So, to be faintly relevant - do you think literature takes itself too seriously/is too politicised? Are we, the reading public, pretending to be too clever? Do we need to start...

Went a bit mad with my as-yet-unreceived wages yesterday. Whoops. Atomised, Michel Houellebecq The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte Making History, Stephen Fry We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver Ship of Destiny, Robin Hobb Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf What is Literature...