Slog - Comments on Slog Commenter Book Report 3: Aislinn Visits The Land of No Right Angles

Comment by boxofbirds

boxofbirds — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:21:08 -0800

I have read that sentence 5 times and I still don't understand it.

Comment by mint chocolate chip

mint chocolate chip — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:26:41 -0800

That was great.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:39:54 -0800

Top review. And yes, I know ladies like that.

Comment by brinsonian

brinsonian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:41:54 -0800

Excellent review! Well done Aislinn, and well done Mr. Constant for the uptick in bookiness I've noticed on the Slog since you ascended to book editor. Keep it up.

Comment by Joh

Joh — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:02:05 -0800

Aislinn should write a book about a hot interracial love triangle. With a dalek. I'd learn to read just to partake of such a magnum opus.

Comment by Rotten666

Rotten666 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:06:28 -0800

Great review!

Cheers!

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:22:52 -0800

Ok, now I forgive you for coming to bed at 4am, because that totally owned.

Somehow I get the sense that you were inspired by the movie we watched last night?

P.S. <3

Comment by Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:25:29 -0800

There are few things I love better than having other people read terrible books and then savage them for my glee and delectation.

This one reminds me of the very first galley I ever read, way back in my college bookstore days. It was about Mormons studying abroad in the Holy Land (!) and the author was clearly obsessed with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (again, !), and it took me six chapters before I realized that when the author said "racist," he really meant "racial." Which is, you know, kind of a significant suffix change. The kids spent a lot of time awkwardly wrestling across gender lines (and giggling -- oh, the giggling) and exchanging lines of expositional dialogue about soil composition. Reading the book was like giving yourself whiplash while holding still.

One sentence burned itself into my memory:

"'Don't you like charity?' Kirsten asked with seduction."

Comment by Paul Constant

Paul Constant — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:04:41 -0800

@8: Oh my God, that's the best sentence ever.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:31:44 -0800

Thanks Aislinn, that was great. I'm so glad that I did not pick up that book looking for eldritch horror.

Also, I went to high school with a girl like this. Most of junior and senior year involved dramatic retellings of the study-abroad program in Spain that Changed Her Life, and also the story about That One Time She Almost Went All The Way With That Spanish Boy.

Comment by dana

dana — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:01:07 -0800

"made me disappointed in everyone who ever told her that she was a good writer".......

so wait, more disappointing than dylan?

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