Colleen McCullough died

Re: Colleen McCullough died

• booknerd226 member

  

  January 2015

  That's so sad. I remember stealing my grandmother's copy when I was maybe 13, and blushing my way through a lot of it. It was one of my first blush books ha.

  
  

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• Young_Love member

  

  January 2015

  Did you see this obituary? (aka the most sexist obit evarrrr)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  She published successful books? Who cares! She was fat and ugly!

    
  

  

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• booneybear member

  

  January 2015

  Young_Love said:

  Did you see this obituary? (aka the most sexist obit evarrrr)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  She published successful books? Who cares! She was fat and ugly!

  
  

  90 books in 2015?

  
  

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• MrsC7 member

  

  January 2015

  

  
  

   

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• sfgiantsjo member

  

  January 2015

  booneybear said:

  Young_Love said:

  Did you see this obituary? (aka the most sexist obit evarrrr)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  She published successful books? Who cares! She was fat and ugly!

  
  

  NEVERTHELESS, a woman of wit and warmth. My goodness, how shocking! Despite her fugliness, she was still a nice person. 
  
  Ugh.

  
  

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• Young_Love member

  

  January 2015

  sfgiantsjo said:

  booneybear said:

  Young_Love said:

  Did you see this obituary? (aka the most sexist obit evarrrr)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  She published successful books? Who cares! She was fat and ugly!

  
  

  NEVERTHELESS, a woman of wit and warmth. My goodness, how shocking! Despite her fugliness, she was still a nice person. 
  
  Ugh.

  I wonder how one can manage to be smart and kind while also being fat and plain?!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Oh, and she wrote some books.

    
  

  

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• j*&p* member

  

  January 2015

  Ugh. I saw that when Neil Gaiman posted her obituary on Twitter yesterday. How did that even get written let alone passed through an editor and published?? The woman was a neurophysiologist and celebrated author for God's sakes, and the best they can lead with is that she was overweight but still did okay with men? I'm still ragey about this. 

   
  

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• oliversbear member

  

  January 2015

  That obituary in The Australian led to a Twitter game/hashtag #myOzobituary as well as sparking tons of outrage in Australia.
  
  I would like to say I expected better, but The Australian is a Murdoch/NewsCorp paper so it's pretty much par for the course.
  

  

  
  

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• booknerd226 member

  

  January 2015

  That obit is disgusting.

  
  

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• Jliongrrrl member

  

  January 2015

  I didn't know obit roasts were a thing now. Despicable. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• oliversbear member

  

  February 2015

  Apparently the obit was drawn up several years ago, and the writer has since passed away.
  

  

  
  

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