Has anyone read them? Are they any good? Would anybody buy them if they weren't written by Madonna? Does anyone buy them anyway?

...just wondering...

Great, you've opened a topic destined to be trashed.

Honestly, no one would buy them if they weren't penned by Madonna, they don't come odd as instant classice like "the paper bag princess" or "Harold's purple crayon."

That being said, they are well written, and each give good morals to children, which is what Madonna was appraching with the books.

And yes i buy them because i am a collector of Madonna.

And yes my opinion is biased, but i recommend people to actually read them before they judge.

The illustrations are always good in these books, and the next one is released next week, and i am going to buy it.

I usually order off Amazon so i don't have to face the painful stare as a desperate Madonna fan buying her children's books.

But with this one, i will go to the store and face the evil stares.

The covers look pretty.

heartbeatocean said:

Have you read any of them?

jayaredee said:

No. If one came my way, I'd read it. But I don't think I'd go out and buy it.

I hate to do this, but I found this radio review pretty much trashing "The English Roses"

http://www.npr.org/templa...Id=1459057

heartbeatocean said:

Which also wouldn't happen if they weren't written by Madonna.

I read most of them. They are whack. They are the sign of Madonna's downfall. Next in line will be her line of cookies.

The quality is just too stunningly stupid. In our bookstore only gay guys bought them. "Ooh! Ooh! Do you have the English version as well? It has a different little mark in the back!"

In our children reading afternoon which I used to do I once tried to read one book and a 5 year old critic said; "What a daft story!"

I totally agreed.

which one is she showing her tits?

meltwithu said:

If you mean 'tits' stands for 'her smarts, I can do anything cuz them gay guys will anything I do anyway' then all of them.

HamsterHuey said:

Welcome to the bracing world of Madonna collecting.

i always thought she would release something like "chitty chitty Gang Bang"

Xavier23 said:

squiddyren said:

I think that they have sold fairly well, or at least the first one did. If I remember correctly, one is about jealousy(????) coz Madonna wanted to address the fact that some of Lourdes's classmates were jealous of her or something coz she was pretty???

VoicesCarry said:

They were TWO kinds of people we hated on the children dept.; gays buying Madonna books and people who buy pop-up books. Weird folk.

skanks shouldnt write childrens books

Isel said:

That's The English Roses. Girls were teasing Lourdes because her mother was Madonna. So Madonna wrote this book and instead of an ugly duckling story, made it about a girl who is unpopular because she's so pretty.

http://www.npr.org/templa...Id=4183844

This is a great interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air. Madonna talks about her books and other stuff.

TheRealFiness said:

heartbeatocean said:

I suppose Everyone Thinks My Mom Is A Skank doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

Dewrede said:

I think she can write them if she wants. I started this thread curious about her ability to cross over to a new medium and it was not meant as an open door to start bashing Madonna just for kicks.

VoicesCarry said:

She should go on barney. She could be a new character.

heartbeatocean said:

Well, what the fuck do you think the kids were saying to Lourdes about Madonna? Stop thinking like a devoted fan for 1 second.
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VoicesCarry said:

I don't really give a shit what they were saying.

heartbeatocean said:

If she was honest, that would have been the title

VoicesCarry said:

Why don't we change the word skank to overtly sexual and proud of it?

heartbeatocean said:

Because that's not what the kids called Madonna (and you said those attacks on Lourdes were the inspiration for her book, no?)

VoicesCarry said: