Dan Savage's review of Sarah Palin's Christmas "book".

[Baitball Blogger]

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There's something I should probably come clean about at the start of this piece. I didn't read the whole thing—but why should I have to read the whole thing? Lord knows Sarah Palin didn't write the whole thing.

Another confession: I haven't even started to read the thing.

I've been carting Sarah Palin's new book around with me for weeks. My copy of Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas has accompanied me to work and to the gym and back home again. This book has been to bars in four states, it's been stuffed in the lockers of three gyms, it's been stowed under the seat in front of me on six flights—it's even been to a kink-world-famous dungeon in San Francisco that I recently toured for professional reasons. (You know how Jen Graves visits artists' studios and Bethany Jean Clement eats in nice restaurants? It was like that, just with hooks in the ceiling.)

About the only place this book hasn't been is in my hands, open and upright, with my eyes pointed at it. But that's about to change. Because I'm going to read this book in 20-minute bursts over the next eight hours. Why 20-minute bursts? Because that's how long it takes for a batch of my mother's Slog-famous Christmas Snowball cookies to bake. I'm going to put a tray in the oven, read, swap trays out, read some more.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/good-grief-and-great-tits/Content?oid=18503580

[tularetom]

1. If he says she didn't write it he obviously hasn't read it

I leafed through it at Costco. It's so childishly written that I think there is a very good chance that she actually did write the whole thing.

[shenmue]

2. Good luck to him

Yikes, I dread running across that book.

[Voice for Peace]

3. k/r

good read

[AZ Mike]

4. Just a suggestion....

....perhaps "book" should be in quotations, not "review".

[nilesobek]

5. It must be torture

to be a reviewer and be forced to read that. Even though probably ghostwritten, it must burn the eyes as you realize brain cells are leaving your body. You will never get them back, or the time wasted.

[Enthusiast]

6. Dan you just don't understand how difficult life

is when we have to endure "Happy Holidays". It rips the rug from under the baby Jesus and Santa Clause.

[Contrary1]

7. For the win...

This comment was left. I hadn't thought of it in this way before, but what a great comeback.

"Someone wished me Merry Christmas yesterday, and my first thought was "you don't know if I am Christian, and I'm kinda offended you just presumed".

Never would have thought of that before Fox News made it a big deal."