Tag: decision points

Dismayed Pareene?

Not to be unkind – OK, that’s a big, fat, juicy lie; it’s all about being unkind – but if MSNBC is interested in finding out why Decision Points is a bestseller, possibly they should solicited the opinion somebody who’s actually written a book? – Because I went over to Amazon, actually; and while I was able to find the author page for George W. Bush readily enough, this is what comes up when you punch in “Alex Pareene.”  Which I suspect is diagnostic, in its way*.  Although I suppose that I shouldn’t take this entire exercise in futility on MSNBC’s too seriously: even Pareene looked like he was phoning in the snark (and I’m being generous in scoring it as ‘snark’).  Ach well: as (I think) Stephen King said that (I think) Bob Dylan said, when they give you forks and knives, you have to cut something.

Via Hot Air Headlines; see Newsbusters for more scorn towards Pareene and MSNBC.

Moe Lane

*Although I will agree with this Pareene person that the Kindle does make it easier to buy books.  I’m actually reading Decision Points on the Kindle right now; but I was planning to buy it anyway.  It’s a pretty good read, not to mention a good tool for refreshing my memory about the events of the last decade.  We did go through a lot back then, just didn’t we?

Picked up Decision Points for the Kindle…

…almost by accident: it may be a little too easy to get books for the Kindle. I also would like to have a intuitive way to be able to use Amazon.com certificates to buy stuff for the Kindle, too. Anyway, Decision Points is pretty good, so far. Amusing bit of trivia: George and Laura Bush have the same anniversary date as my wife and I.

As I said: trivia.

Moe Lane

‘Bring the Jubilee.’

Not much to say about Bring the Jubilee, except of course that it’s one of the seminal if-the-South-had-won-the-Civil-War novels that made up the backbone of alternate history for so long.  It’s also one of those books that the unwary will think of as ‘hackneyed,’ because the plot twists and details will be so familiar… because everybody writing this sort of alternate history ripped off Bring the Jubilee shamelessly.  Well worth it, in other words.  Good to know the roots of a genre.

And so, farewell to Decision Points.

#rsrh The Oprah/Bush Interview.

It’s twenty minutes long, and well worth watching.  The Left is going to hate it, of course; Bush comes across very well.  Worse, Oprah treats him with the civility and respect that you would expect a civilized human being to provide to a former President of the United States*.  Such a betrayal!  Such an outrage!  The heavens will fall!

Seriously, watch the interview.  I was on the fence about whether to buy Decision Points, but now I may have to.  It sounds like fascinating reading.

Moe Lane

*In fact, she even comes across as liking the man.  Extra acid on the soul to a certain sort of person, there.