I'm all in favor of encouraging Republicans into putting some wildness into their wilderness. Just think of the titles from the soon-to-be-ousted (please, God, please):
Hott Sexx Tips For Begetting, from Santorum.
Hitting All Bases and Screwing the Timid, from DeLay.
Aim "Straight" At Their Strength, from Rove.
The Snarling Cowboy of Gondor, from Cheney.
Secret-Agent Masochists and the Politicians Who Loved Them, from Tenet.
Gondor would have taken the Ring, launched an attack on Mordor, and then would have had to fight against a combined force of Orcs and Southrons without any aid from the Elves, Giants, Dwarves, Wizards, Ents, or Hobbits, let alone the Riders of Rohan.
Boromir on crack, man, without any of Wettham's excuses. I'm just trying to figure out who in Middle Earth would have been crazy enough to go along.
(I do recognize your point, though: Cheney's enemy in Iraq, and, oh let me be frank, in Afghanistan, was a fucking watermill compared to Mordor.)
Is it embarrassingly pornographic, as per usual for novels published by Republican political figures?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 5:24 PM
Well, Amazon's distinctive phrases algorithm turns up assistant headman, tiny dancer, man with the pole, mountain trousers, old samurai.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 5:29 PM
So that would be a 'yes'.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 5:31 PM
You have a dirty mind, LB.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 5:41 PM
LB is right, though I can't remember where I found the evidence.
Maybe it was... in my pants!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 6:01 PM
It's not possible that "tiny dancer" is unique to Libby's novel.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 6:01 PM
Saddam Hussein, Lynne Cheney, and several others in politics (Bill O'Reilly? Some of the Watergate folk?) have published romance novels.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 6:46 PM
this novel apparently has political skulduggery. sign me up.
Posted by matty | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 6:47 PM
Newt! (Not a romance novel, but didn't GIngrich write something embarassing?)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 7:03 PM
didn't GIngrich write something embarassing?
Civil War alternative history.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 8:24 PM
I'm all in favor of encouraging Republicans into putting some wildness into their wilderness. Just think of the titles from the soon-to-be-ousted (please, God, please):
Hott Sexx Tips For Begetting, from Santorum.
Hitting All Bases and Screwing the Timid, from DeLay.
Aim "Straight" At Their Strength, from Rove.
The Snarling Cowboy of Gondor, from Cheney.
Secret-Agent Masochists and the Politicians Who Loved Them, from Tenet.
Oh, the road goes ever forwards!
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 8:53 PM
The Snarling Cowboy of Gondor, from Cheney.
Dude. Mordor.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 9:06 PM
Maybe, but my point was that Cheney's
Gondor would have taken the Ring, launched an attack on Mordor, and then would have had to fight against a combined force of Orcs and Southrons without any aid from the Elves, Giants, Dwarves, Wizards, Ents, or Hobbits, let alone the Riders of Rohan.
Boromir on crack, man, without any of Wettham's excuses. I'm just trying to figure out who in Middle Earth would have been crazy enough to go along.
(I do recognize your point, though: Cheney's enemy in Iraq, and, oh let me be frank, in Afghanistan, was a fucking watermill compared to Mordor.)
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 9:26 PM
It's supposed to be surprisingly good. Was it Slate that had an article about novels by politicians a while ago?
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 10-17-05 9:53 PM
It's supposed to be surprisingly good.
Considering expectations, this is not necessarily high praise.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 10-18-05 1:39 AM
No it was this one. How could I forget? Good ol' Jeet Heer.
http://www.jeetheer.com/culture/torystories.htm
It's an entertaining article.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 10-18-05 2:30 AM
Gary weighs in on the "Is Scooter's novel embarrassingly pornographic" question. Turns out the answer is yes.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10-31-05 11:20 AM