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Thursday, January 27, 2011

2008 / Books O, It's That Guy?

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM

Remember earlier this month, when I told you about a new anonymously written novel titled O: A Presidential Novel about Obama's 2012 presidential run? I was really excited to read it.

But now, the author has been kinda-sorta revealed to be John McCain speechwriter/Faith of My Fathers cowriter Mark Salter, and I'm just not that interested anymore. Put simply: Salter's just not that good a writer, and I was hoping that this Anonymous, like the Primary Colors Anonymous, would be a member of the press. (Members of the campaign press get all the good gossip, and we almost never get to hear it.)

Now that I know the author is so unabashedly partisan, I'm much less likely to read the book; it looks like Game Change is still as close as we're going to get to an Obama-starring gossipy narrative for a while yet.

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Forget the book “O - A Presidential Novel” and the fake anonymous hype (who cares who wrote that boring book), instead read a real controversial BANNED book like “America Deceived II” by the ‘World’s Most Hated Author’, E.A. Blayre III.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookD…

Posted by Dan11788 on January 27, 2011 at 3:20 PM