Re: Book Review

[G. Morgan <usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:56:31 -0500, "Robert L Bass"
<Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"G. Morgan" wrote:
>>
>> Most plausible!
>
>The *news* part of the story is that he actually reads.  The book, which is
>supposed to be her life's story, is all of 4.5 chapters long.  The half-chapter
>is the story of her term as the governor.  :^)


The NYT gave it a stellar review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/15book.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all


"Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with Ms. Palin?s
life in Alaska and her family. Despite an annoying tendency to gratuitously
drop the names of lots of writers and philosophers ? in the course of this
book, she quotes or alludes to Pascal , Plato , Aristotle , Thomas Paine ,
Pearl S. Buck, Mark Twain and Melville - she does a lively job of conveying
the frontier feel of the 49th state, ...."

and...

"She suggests that the $150,000-plus designer clothes were the campaign?s
idea, that she and her family are actually frugal coupon clippers, who shop at
Costco. And she says she was manipulated into doing that famous series of
Katie Couric interviews (which would do much to cement an image of her as an
easily caricatured ignoramus)"