![]() ![]() If one of those people is her own son, it's a heavy price, but one that must be paid none-the-less. If she has to force a few people into suicide to gain power, it's just the price she has to pay. ![]() Think of her as a modern day Lady MacBeth. Even guilty pleasures are still pleasures. Senate, the other into marriage, all so she can get herself one step closer to the White House which she will rule as a pupper master, is a guilty pleasure. Watching her manipulate both her husband and her son, one into the U.S. We are horrified by what she does but also a bit delighted, too. Because this is a good bad book, Raymond's mother's meanness is part of the fun. If she had a name, any reader who happened to have a mother with that name would soon need therapy. ![]() She's simply Raymond's mother throughout the book. But, as mean as she is, she's June Cleaver next to the mother as written in the novel.She's so mean, she cannot be named. Angela Landsbury plays the meanest mother ever to appear on screen. I can speak only for the Sinatra/Landsbury version which is terrific. That's a good way to describe the novel-it's a very good bad book.Today, the story is known primarily from the two movie adaptations: the ill-fated 1962 version starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Landsbury and the 2004 version starring Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon was listed as one of the top ten best bad books of 1959 by Time Magazine. ![]()
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