Colleen McCullough
The author of The Thorn Birds passes on at the age of 77…and The Australian rustles up an obit that diminishes a great writer…read Jo Robinson’s comments…interesting!
Originally posted on Jo Robinson:
Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds died at the age of seventy seven on the 29th January. The Australian wrote this as part of their obituary:
���Australia���s bestselling author was a charmer. Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.���
Pardon?
Use whatever words you like, but you clearly just called her not pretty and fat with a nice personality in her OBITUARY. That���s where you say nice things people. She���d be charmed I���m sure. I loved The Thornbirds, both the book and the series ��� the drama, the forbidden love, the serious crush on Richard Chamberlain who played the priest, and the devastation when he came out and I realised we could never be���.. Ahem. Colleen McCullough was a stellar author, incredibly intelligent, and nice too. Twitter is currently abuzz with hilarious rude fake obits on the hashtag #myozobituary from all���
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