Palin's Memoirs Triggers a Boomlet of Other Books

[spanone]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sarah Palin may fashion herself as a go-it-alone maverick, but her book is producing a crowd.

By the time the former governor's memoir -- ''Going Rogue: An American Life'' -- officially hits book stores on Tuesday -- there'll be a legion of titles waiting to cash in, from unauthorized biographies to critical essays to a tongue-in-cheek coloring book.

That doesn't even include the picture book ''Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles'' -- which superimposes her head on paintings and famous photos -- and a boomlet of self-published books, including one that weirdly takes Henrik Ibsen's play ''Hedda Gabler'' and merely substitutes Gabler for Palin and George Tesman for Todd Palin.

This much is clear: Palin, whose wardrobe got her in trouble during the presidential campaign, has apparently sparked others to ride her memoir's coattails, whether to assault, defend or just giggle.

''There is something about her which is very hard not to be drawn into,'' says Colin Robinson, co-publisher at OR Books, which is putting out a collection of essays pulled together by two senior editors at The Nation magazine. ''It might be a sort of adoration. Or it might be that one is appalled. But you can't stop watching.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/14/arts/AP-US-Palins-Book-Coattails.html?pagewanted=print

[crim son]

1. I'm voting "appalled." n/t

[spanone]

2. me too!

[lunatica]

3. I call it the deer in the headlights look

Stupifying, mind boggling brain freeze of utter incredulity

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. A talking dog writing its memoirs would generate interest, too

It doesn't mean the contents of that book would be celebrated for their profundity ... unless it was a right wing dog in which case Limbaugh would say that it was the most substantive policy book he's ever read.

[MineralMan]

5. Going Rogue: Memoirs of A Quitter and Loser