Book Pre-Review: "The Lost Blogs"
Category: Books & Writing...
Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 at 04:20 PM [GMT-6]

Update: This is why book reviews are generally written after the book is read, which sounds dull, I know, but may actually have some kind of strange logic to it. Anyway, I'm twenty pages further along and the book may not be exactly the non-stop laugh riot I made it out to be. Moses blogging the parting of the Red Sea is one thing; Thomas Paine soliciting titles for his papers is a little less than that previously mentioned thing. But it's still funny and I shall persevere. Don't lose heart.

Well, after some kind of snafu, no doubt involving the NSA, the UPS guy drove up and deposited on my porch not one but two copies of The Lost Blogs by Paul Davidson. I suppose the second copy was Time Warner's way of apologizing for not delivering my review copy before the book was published on May 8, thereby preventing me from scooping the entire blogosphere and cementing forever my status as the Golden Child of Reviews of Books about Fictional Blogging. But, hey, that's the way it goes.

Anyway, I'm only seven pages into the book and my advice is simple: drop what you're doing and go to your local bookseller and demand to purchase a copy of this book so that you, too, may snort your favorite beverage all over your lap.

Well, let me back up here a bit. If you're not a blogger, or at least a pretty voracious blog reader, then maybe you won't find the book all that hilarious. Davidson pretty well nails the various personalities that bloggers assume, only he imposes them on actual historical figures (the first six "bloggers" are, in order, Moses, John Wilkes Booth, Babe Ruth, Neil Armstrong, John Lennon, and Napoleon). Although there's some debate as to the actual historicity of John Lennon, but we won't get into that right now.

I'll post a complete review when I finish the book, but I know many of you have been waiting with bated breath since I first revealed my exclusive status for the receipt of the tome. To make it up to you, some lucky Gazette reader may well be the recipient of the second copy as part of a Major Award Package. Details will be blogged.

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Woo-hoo! That just upped the stakes in whatever your next quiz might be (or are you still holding out for Blog-A-Thon?)! When is that anyway?

Posted by: Gwynne at May 19, 2006 05:38 PM

Just remember the locationally and age challenged. :P

Posted by: Rachel at May 19, 2006 05:42 PM

Blogathon is at the end of July. How the book might be awarded depends on whether I can come up with a truly fitting -- and fair, as Rachel points out -- contest.

Any ideas?

Posted by: Eric at May 19, 2006 05:54 PM

How about a list of FASB's and a list of what each is about, and we have to match them up? ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at May 19, 2006 06:01 PM

historicity??? Sorry if i am a little confused as to the accuracy of this word, but i am sitting here on the phone with a client and it is 6:00 pm on a friday evening...shouldn't i be home with my family starting to enjoy the weekend???

Posted by: changedtoprotecttheinnocent at May 19, 2006 06:02 PM

Gwynne, that's good, but I was thinking more along the lines of matching up a list of CSS attributes with the effects they achieve.

Cindy (I know who you are), you can't reasonably expect me to explain the things I write. That's just wrong.

Posted by: Eric at May 19, 2006 06:30 PM

I've been giving this some though and my suggestion is post it at about 7 - 9 pm at night. That puts it in the afternoon for me. Aren't I difficult hehe?

Failing all that, How about awarding it to the person who is travelling the farthest to see you hahaha!

Posted by: Rachel at May 19, 2006 07:36 PM

Rachel, that sounds too hard. How about if we limit the contest to only female Kiwis who have male Jack Russell terriers named Mac? ;-)

Posted by: Eric at May 19, 2006 11:08 PM

Works for me hehe!

Posted by: Rachel at May 20, 2006 03:33 AM
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