Health Warning

I’m sure that all of my cherished colleagues on the Chariot need no warning about this.  I saw in the library where I do voluntary work in France that someone had donated a copy of  “Sex and the City”.  Having heard the name, I thought I would have a look at it.  On the front cover the Sunday Telegraph describes this work as “Jane Austen with a Martini”.  You wouldn’t need a martini or any other cocktail to knock you out.  This tedious, badly written book will have put you right off before you can reach for your cocktail shaker. Marie Claire describes it as “Hilarious … a compulsively readable book  … bite-sized chunks of irrepressible irreverence.” This probably says more about the low standards of that magazine and about the French sense of humour than anything else.

One line did please me. “Reputations are like cat litter.  They can be changed daily.”  Would you like to comment on that, Max Clifford?

7 thoughts on “Health Warning”

  1. Vapid writing, banal stories. A group of women with more money than sense, class, or dignity go about their lives for no other reason than chasing every temporary high and bit of self-satisfying frivolity. Set in an over-rated city where a plethora of over-rated stories have already been set there is nothing to be found in “Sex and the City” that cannot be found in any trashy romance novel.

  2. Sheona, I’m glad you mentioned the unutterable Max. I mentioned some moons ago that I would wait until all the stones had been turned over before I decided how to judge the Savile-gate revelations. Since then some larger-than-life ‘celebrities’ have been accused of child abuse: Cyril Smith, a legendary man of the people; Stuart Hall, the fun-loving sports commentator and now our kiss-and-tell PR guru. Of course this could all be smoke and mirrors rather than smoke and fire. It’s the pantomime season after all.

  3. Hiya Sheona. I have rarely had a more satisfying dose of schadenfreude than watching the execrable Clifford having to defend his own reputation this morning, so much so that it has probably set my fur flat for the rest of the day.

    On the other hand that blonde northern lass in the telly series was a bit tasty though. 🙂

    OZ

  4. Agree with chris.
    I once caught a couple of minutes of the TV show by mistake and hastily found another channel!
    Only suitable for those with an IQ of less than a frozen pea.

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