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

Posted by boxofbirds | September 16, 2008 12:21 PM
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That was great.

Posted by mint chocolate chip | September 16, 2008 12:26 PM
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Top review. And yes, I know ladies like that.

Posted by Fnarf | September 16, 2008 12:39 PM
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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.

Posted by brinsonian | September 16, 2008 12:41 PM
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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.

Posted by Joh | September 16, 2008 1:02 PM
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Great review!

Cheers!

Posted by Rotten666 | September 16, 2008 1:06 PM
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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

Posted by w7ngman | September 16, 2008 1:22 PM
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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."

Posted by Alicia | September 16, 2008 1:25 PM
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@8: Oh my God, that's the best sentence ever.

Posted by Paul Constant | September 16, 2008 2:04 PM
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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.

Posted by Greg | September 16, 2008 5:31 PM
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"made me disappointed in everyone who ever told her that she was a good writer".......

so wait, more disappointing than dylan?

Posted by dana | September 18, 2008 12:01 AM
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