RIP you fat, egotistical, ugly, woman.

Very odd opening sentence, for sure!

I've only read The Thorn Birds. I didn't realize she was a scientist as well! What an interesting life she led.

Well now, that was interesting.

Hmmmm...what a life she led! Loved The Thorn Birds!

Well, it's not quite the usual kind of obituary but as a woman reported to be of 'wit and warmth' and a 'teller of a good story peppered with profanities', she is probably delighted with that because it covers absolutely every aspect of her life!!

Crazy writing.

She did have a really broad, interesting, life ... I mean, is it common to see Norrolk Island, Oklahoma, Thorn Birds, and Henry Kissinger linked?

I loved the book Tim even more than Thorn Birds.

Weird. And now, I'm going to tell my Colleen McCullough story.

I read a lot, particularly so when I was a kid. I always had a book going.

When I was in 8th grade, my BFF Michele (also a huge reader) loaned me "The Thorn Birds." She had read it and loved it and just knew I would, too. I started reading it at school that day, and for whatever reason, fell in love with it immediately.

That afternoon when my mom picked me up from school, I got in the car and had the book on my lap. My mom asked where I got it, and I told her Michele had loaned it to me. She told me that I had to give it back to Michele and that she did not want me to read it.

I was a very obedient kid -- very obedient -- but if you told me NOT to read a particular book? I was going to read that damned book.

So I hid it and I read in the middle of the night when everyone else was asleep, or at school or wherever I could that my mom couldn't see. I loved, loved, loved that book. I now own three copies of it, just because.

I was so sad when I read that she had died earlier this week. (And I'm still not really sure why my mom didn't want me to read the book; we're not even Catholic lol!)

That was absolutely, terribly written. Wow.

Wow. She deserved so much better than that as an obituary.

It makes me think the obituary writer is jealous and petty. 

What a bizarre opening paragraph!


Exactly busypea, "Despite being fat and ugly, she surprisingly still managed to be funny and kind". 

the sex scenes, the sex scenes-- not to mention the whole priest/young woman aspect of it!! I remember sneak-reading that book when I was about that age, too!! (I had some of the same fantasies, but they all involved someone who looked like Richard Chamberlain.)

This thread title will have me giggling all day.

Opening line of the obit aside, that was awful - I learned some interesting things about her. I'm not sure I would have had the strong reaction to the article.

#FatLadyObit if you want to check it out.