After all the recent chatter about Jim Webb’s gritty novels about men at war and things they saw (John McCain has sung the praises of Webb’s books), we get some new interest in Lynne Cheney’s book “Sisters”, which includes numerous graphic discussions of rape, lukewarm lesbian action and brothels.
Check out this article:
[quote]Cheney’s biography on the White House Web site says she is the author or co-author of nine books, and it lists six of them, but not “Sisters.”
Readers will have a hard time judging the content of the book for themselves. The few copies available are selling for hundreds of dollars each.
On Amazon.com Sunday, four used copies of “Sisters” were being sold, ranging from $695.95 for one in “acceptable” condition to $999 for a copy in “collectible – good” condition. Ebay had two copies available, with requested opening bids of $200 and $500. Froogle.com, on Sunday afternoon, found the cheapest copies available barely under $300.
Some of these prices were set before the latest blow-up over the work of fiction. It was not immediately clear what impact the last few days have had.
Reviews have long described the book as “racy” and “steamy.” Excerpts highlight a love story between two women and talk of sharing a bed.[/quote]
The following passage in fact may support the idea that the love scenes may have been intended to dissuade young people from a life of lesbianism, just from the sheer boringness of their lives:
Here are some other little snippets.
Check out the video footage of Lynne Cheney putting the potty-minded Wolf Blitzer in his place.
[quote]BLITZER: The Democrats are now complaining bitterly in this Virginia race, George Allen, using novels, novels that Jim Webb, his Democratic challenger, has written in which there are sexual references, and they’re making a big deal out of this. I want you to listen to what Jim Webb said today in responding to this very sharp attack from George Allen.
LYNNE CHENEY, WIFE OF VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: Now do you promise, Wolf, that we’re going to talk about my book.
BLITZER: I do promise.
L. CHENEY: Because this seems to me a mighty…
… a long trip around the merry-go-round.
BLITZER: This is in the news today and your name has come up, so that’s why we’re talking about it, but listen to this.
WEBB: There’s nothing that’s been in any of my novels in my view hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. I’m a serious writer. We can go and read Lynne Cheney’s lesbian love scenes if want to you know get graphic on stuff.
L. CHENEY: You know Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit. His novels are full of sexual explicit references to incest, sexually explicit references — well, you know I (INAUDIBLE) just want my grandchildren to turn on the television set this morning, Imus was reading from the novels and it — it’s triple x-rated.
BLITZER: Here’s what the Democratic Party put out today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Lynne Cheney’s book featured brothels and attempted rape. In 1981 Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne, wrote a book called “Sisters”, which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes. In…
BLITZER: … 1988 Lynne Cheney wrote about a Republican vice president who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress. Is that true?
L. CHENEY: Nothing explicit and actually full of lies. It’s not — it’s just — it’s absolutely not…
BLITZER: Did you write a book entitled “Sisters”?
L. CHENEY: I did write a book entitled “Sisters”…
BLITZER: It did have lesbian…
L. CHENEY: This — no, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I’ll stand on that.
BLITZER: There is nothing in there about rapes and brothels?
L. CHENEY: Wolf, Wolf, Wolf, could we talk about a children’s book for a minute?
BLITZER: We can talk about the children’s book…
L. CHENEY: I think our segment is like 15 minutes long…
L. CHENEY: … and…
BLITZER: I just…
L. CHENEY: … 10 minutes…
BLITZER: I just wanted to clarify what’s in the news today…
L. CHENEY: Sex, lies and distortion, that’s what it is.
BLITZER: This is an opportunity for to you explain on these sensitive issues.
L. CHENEY: Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to explain.[/quote]
This last part is a bit strange. Somehow Lynne Cheney forgets to mention that Jim Webb was still a Republican when he wrote the graphic scenes in his books.