http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul Highlights from Paul Theroux's review of a new biography of the Nobel laureate. Now French’s biography amply demonstrates everything I said and more [in Sir Vidia’s Shadow]. It is not a pretty story; it will probably destroy Naipaul’s reputation for ever, this chronicle of his pretensions, his whoremongering, his treatment of a sad, sick wife [Pat] and disposable mistress [Margret], his evasions, his meanness, his cruelty amounting to sadism, his race baiting. After years of using prostitutes, the turning point in Naipaul’s life comes in 1972 when he finds a woman he desires: Margaret, whom he has met in Buenos... Copyright 2008 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:32:46 -0800 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:25:23 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss No two people in this world have ever deserved each other more than Naipaul and Theroux. I hope that in Hell they will be confined together for eternity, in straitjackets and leg irons, just out of spitting range.

]]> ivan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998152 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998152 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:58:38 -0800 What does any of that have to do with his books? Philip Larkin's reputation as a poet and critic didn't suffer after his biography was released. Humans are deeply flawed creatures. Writers maybe more than most of us. That's not news.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998173 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:05 -0800 those guys are neeeerds!

]]> raymond http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998230 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998230 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0800 Does anyone else think the reason "Margaret" didn't want to be interviewed is because she's imaginary? Seriously, would anyone really worship this Dork Master's penis? I doubt it. I doubt any woman looked at this guy and said 'hubba hubba'.

]]> yucca flower http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998265 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998265 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:04:53 -0800 Here's the antivenom:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,2273159,00.html

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998329 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998329 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:58:51 -0800 I once found myself sitting one row in front of the current Lady Naipaul, Nadira, at a concert. She was very good looking, very amusing, very cutting. All in all an entirely formidable woman. I remember thinking, "she seems like she'd be fun to talk to at a party, but I certainly wouldn't want to be her enemy."

]]> Eric from Boulder http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998374 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998374 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:13:20 -0800 have you seen my nobel prize?

]]> ams http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998412 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998412 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:58:50 -0800 he sounds exactly like picasso. honestly, no worse. in fact, if naipaul has no children to dis, he comes off somewhat better.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/more_hate_for_naipaul#c998474 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:25:23 -0800