Live web-chat with Tony Parsons, 9pm-10pm, 6 October

[rachel(mumsnet)]

Columnist and author Tony Parsons will be joining us here on Monday 6th October from 9-10pm for a live chat. Tony's sixth novel, 'My Favourite Wife' has just been published and is described by The Independent as 'a much bigger, more ambitious book' than million-selling 'Man and Boy'. If you can't make the chat you can post your questions in advance here.
Hope to see you here on Monday.

lol Zippi. You are dying for me to be in angst over something. I am touched It will never happen ove TP beleive me. A bit of tongue in cheek outrage though is a good tonic.

Gosh there's a bit of over-analysis going on here surely.

I thought his responses were lighthearted and fine for this forum- he seemed game for it really. I don't think his books are the most amazing in the world, but there are very few I do (Haruki Murakami , Alan Booth (RIP), Somerset Maugham are my heroes). They're fine for light reading though and there's lots to be said for that! I don't think he's claiming literary greatness is he?

I would have liked to see a more serious and considered response to Scummy's question, but I think he came across just fine. As well as anyone can on here really.

i dont know im confused you dont really sound like yourself apart from the references to feminism

and i think a lot of great writers have written "for therapy" as you rather disparagingly put it

and indeed artists too have produced work from their own experiences and angst

I am not sounding like myself as I am trying not to disentangle myself from this sorry mess. I was having a laugh, in the best spirit of MN - we are not Netmums after all. I am not going near your last post with a barge pole, sorry.

you're joking aren't you jimjams, a more serious and considered response to Scummy's question? How about a less defensive and bitchy response???

i didnt realise you were having a laugh mt

you sounded very serious and grumpy

I was having a laugh before people started calling me a bully fgs - don;t think that was you don;t worry.

You just come on here for a bit of irreverent bolsh and it gets all serious.

I should make an announcement - DON;T TAKE ME SERIOUSLY, IT'S MY DRY SENSE OF HUMOUR AND MY DISLIKE OF [GRINS]

but I wouildn;t expect anyone to give a shite so I won;t

Donnie, ditto from me

As you said " he likes the Clash so that catapults him onto the stratosphere as far as I'm concerned. Plus he raised his son alone after that helium voiced freako ex wife of his buggered off so I RATE HIM "

hear hear!
I think Julie Birchill was unbelievably cruel to their son - he was left to pick up the pieces.

Just read this and I thought he was fine when the questions didn't challenge him but as soon as they did he became bitchy and defensive.

Didn't like him at all. But he was still better than David Cameron.

Can we try and get Germaine Greer? That would be so fab!!!

what does abrf stand for?

I have read to the end of this thread.

Just saying.

guessing a sentiment I echo wholeheartedly!!!

Yes,

Oh, do get Greer, so we can get the inside track!

how shall we all go about marching over breast implants?

Carefully?

With Stilettos?

thank goodness it was barf and not something worse!

lol

ahh

back to irony again. My favorite MN mood