And if you are like me, you don't want to read it except for the good parts. Azaria over at Jezebel has done just that. She's correlated the bits where Palin blames her failure on other people and says Katie Couric is suffering from "low self esteem."
She also blames Nicole Wallace, a campaign aid, for everything from her bad interviews to the corns she got from walking to podiums.
Okay, I made that last part up, but read the article and watch the video of Nicole on Rachel Maddow's show.
http://gawker.com/5407214/palins-campaign-chaperone-eviscerates-her-for-lying-in-book?skyline=true&s=x
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Here's another site with a scathing review and an excerpt:
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/11/17/going-rogue/
If you are in a hurry, here is the succinct version of this review: Going Rogue is shit. It is groundbreaking in its banality and disregard for facts. If you are sentient, it will pain you to read it. Imagine watching your parents 69 one another while John Madden sits behind you and bellows out color commentary and you will have some idea of how excruciating and profoundly scarring it is to plow through each page of this wholly fictional monument to self-aggrandized mediocrity. Going Rogue is to the art of writing what the Holocaust is to the concept of a just God – the piece of disconfirming evidence so overwhelming that we are left questioning whether it can exist at all.
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That is the best review I can expect on the book. I especially like the John Madden simile. Just curious, is this one of those reviews of the reviews that is acceptable in NY circles, or did you actually read it?
Nope, I read it at the blog. Nobody sent it to me. I was looking for reviews that would tell me the highlights (or lowlights) so I wouldn't have to check it out of the library and actually read it. AS IF.
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