![]() ![]() This kind of armchair smugness is the special preserve of rightwing bloggers. ![]() "Cho was crazy plenty of people knew he was crazy he should have been locked up," the rightwing blogger John Derbyshire wrote at National Review Online. He wrote violent plays, intimidated female students, and - like serial killers since the dawn of time - kept himself to himself. In hindsight, after he had murdered 32 people, it was obvious there had always been something suspicious about Cho Seung-hui. It seems a big and perhaps tasteless leap from Dennis's life of luxury to last week's campus killings in Virginia. The implication is clear: I, the wealthy author, possess these qualities that's how I became rich. All argue that to make a fortune, you need certain characteristics: confidence, perseverance, and little fear of failure. " Beneath the disarming tone, though, Dennis's volume conveys the same message as hundreds of others in which the rich reveal their secrets. "Chauffeurs, housekeepers, financial advisers. ![]() Private jets," Dennis wrote, enumerating the benefits. It is significantly less annoying than most such works, thanks mainly to the author's willingness to admit to the sheer fun of being worth around £700m. L ast year, the multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis wrote a book entitled How To Get Rich: The Distilled Wisdom of One of Britain's Wealthiest Entrepreneurs. ![]()
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