In commemoration of one the DDC's major holidays (40th anniversary, people!) I have been reading The Kennedy Curse Oh it is SO DUMB. I kept waiting for Klein to mention Carolyn Bessette's gold lavaliere and twin sister. Also, books without decent MLA style sources drive me up a wall. As an art history major, I couldn't even get away with that! It was all FOOT NOTES FOOT NOTES FOOT NOTES. So when Klein writes that "One Irish writer declared" you want to scream WHICH ONE, DICKHEAD??? cause god knows you can't tell from reading the endnotes. (see also that guy who wrote the Ready Steady Go 60s swingin London book were he ripped off passages whole from Marianne Faithfull's autobiography yet didn't porperly credit the book, UGG)

As for the Curse surely it's fucked up family more than anything? Klein mentions this but then throws out crap like Joe Sr offending a Hasid rabbi on a boat and that was the source of the curse and blah blah blah. And then it's kind of icky to describe Joe II paralysing a girl, and William Kennedy Smith's rape trial, and the Martha Moxley murder as "oh no the poor Kennedys!" No wait, it's not icky, it's offensive!

Not that this is going to stop me from reading the whole book or anything.