Bible Spice in the hizzouse
Nov. 19th, 2009 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Of all the Going Rogue reviews I've read so far I'm having a hard time choosing my fave, but I think I've got it narrowed down to:1. Short and Sweet - (via Sadly, No!) “Imagine watching your parents 69 one another while John Madden sits behind you and bellows out color commentary and you will have some idea of how excruciating and profoundly scarring it is to plow through each page of this wholly fictional monument to self-aggrandized mediocrity.”
2. Classy - (via WhiskeyFire) "The most unbelievable thing about Going Rogue, by the author-function "Sarah Palin," is that it's supposed to be self-serving. The problem a self-serving narrative about Sarah Palin confronts is that it's about Sarah Palin, whose entire life, it appears, consists of worse and worse attempts to create self-serving narratives explaining away bigger and bigger fuck-ups. Going Rogue's burden is that it must claim to be the definitive, encyclopedic explanation, the final excuse, for a long history of failure begat by failure; it's an epic of failure, if you will, and if the goal here is some kind of ultimate vindication, well, it is monumentally unsuccessful. Going Rogue is, at bottom, the story of every one of Sarah Palin's projects ending in grotesque catastrophe; it is only self-serving in the sense that these catastrophes either prove benign or turn out to be some other schlub's fault. If everything I knew about Sarah Palin came from this book (and basically it does), I would say her life has been like a play in which a deus-ex-machina descends at the end of every act to bestow peace and harmony, except the deus forgot to put on pants and everyone's just standing around going "uhhhh..." and then the lights go out and the scene changes."
3. Straight up Geeky - (via via Wizards.com, btw you must see the image on this comment, seriously) I stood in line to get my copy of this book from the local bookstore fearing it might be sold out early. Hot chick on the cover, so far so good. Then I opened it and started reading.
To my chagrin it didn't start out well. I thought well at some point this has to get better. But guess what it doesn't! There's nothing at all about dex rolls, dps builds, searching for traps, sneak attacks, assassins, +4 daggers or anything!
All it is some woman whining about how everyone in her party wouldn't let her make any decisions, about how something called a Couric made her look like a complete idiot (I couldn't find it in the monster manual but, I'm guessing it must be like a Sphinx), and how her group leader McCain wouldn't let her be rogue enough.
Well, I don't even know where to start addressing this stuff. She doesn't even have any daggers! I mean, that's hardly the group leader's fault! She should have loaded out before the quest started!
Plus, on every single page she bemoans her 8 INT build and blames her horrible playing on everyone else! It's her fault for putting all her stat points into Charisma!
To sum up, this book is terrible. It's anti-rogue if anything. If you want a book on how not to be a rogue this has got to be the bible.
I'm going back to the store now to see if I can get my hard earned cash back for this awful drek.
Find your own fave amongst a bunch of brilliant reviews at Amazon.
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Date: 2009-11-20 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 04:02 pm (UTC)As reading the originals helped make my day I felt it only fair to share :)
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Date: 2009-11-20 01:22 pm (UTC)When I get bored, I provoke my (very right wing) sister into political discussions. She kinda liked Sarah Palin, who (by some wrong twist of fate) shares the last name of a Monty Python member. Yeah, I just had to throw that in.
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Date: 2009-11-21 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-21 02:40 pm (UTC)