Comments on: life after dancing: book from bristol palin by julie bosman

By: Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:58:09 +0000

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By: Barbara Vroman

Barbara Vroman — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:13:52 +0000

If you had watched Dancing With the Stars you would have seen her
terror, her fear, her courage, this young girl (raised to be a fundamentalist
Christian with all the don’t's that implies) who had to accompany her mother
in national exposure with her bulging belly of premature pregnancy. Maybe after all, she has something to share with other young girls.

I would prefer to vote for other people than Sarah Palin. I also think daughter had unfair advantage. Should the black girl have won instead? YES!!!
But I remember how hard it was to be young and vulnerable. She has her right
to reach for the ring, too. Why is is that the public will buy this, and not a
book of literary significance? That is not Bristol’s fault.

By: Tim Stone

Tim Stone — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:18:33 +0000

It does make one ill.

By: Robert M. Zoschke

Robert M. Zoschke — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:45:00 +0000

Capitano Nazzz…there is only one comment of pertinence that I can (and must) add to your richly pertinent piece on today’s lack of Bestseller Pertinence…

“If there had been a player piano, Mailer might have put in a quarter to hear ‘In the Heart of the City Which Has No Heart.” From Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night.

By: alan catlin

alan catlin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:11:40 +0000

I can only think of one person under the age of thirty who wrote a memoir that was worth reading and it was by Lu Li one of the Chinese student leaders at the Tienamen Square massacre, an earthquake and famine survivor, and later a college student in America. Dancing with the Stars indeed!

By: jonnel covault

jonnel covault — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:09:16 +0000

I’m going to delete this post immediately!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:37 +0000

ah, another 10 minute book. maybe 7 minutes. 3?

By: delphine

delphine — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:26:54 +0000

Loved the Editor’s Note. As the young crowd says: lol.

By: jude, hey

jude, hey — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:25:36 +0000

I am speechless … all I can come up with is Mother. of. GOD!

By: Sharon Auberle

Sharon Auberle — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:09:15 +0000

thanks so much, Norb, for giving us this literary (and advice-filled) treasure to look forward to.
Though I am loathe to admit it, I am a closet fan of “Dancing,” but this makes me want to hurl…aaarghhh