"If Simon & Schuster really wanted Living History to cover Hillary Rodham Clinton's $8 million advance, they should have shrink-wrapped it like Madonna's Sex. Luckily for cheapskate browsers everywhere, the publisher didn't have that much foresight. Here's a quick guide for those too smart, too poor, or too impatient to wade through 528 pages just to mine the good stuff. (Warning: Whatever you do, do not sit down to read unless you've taken a powerful cocktail of caffeine, Ritalin, and modafinil.)
Walk into your local bookstore, pick up a copy at the display table, and turn to Page 441, which begins, "Bill told me that Monica Lewinsky was an intern. ?" Read the whole Lewinsky account. Skip the next 22 pages, which deal with, among other things, a trip to China, a series of millennium-themed lectures at the White House, and the preservationist campaign, Save America's Treasures. Instead, flip to Page 464, the chapter titled "August 1998." Read all seven pages. If you're really pressed for time, begin at the very bottom of page 465, where it says, "Early the next morning, Saturday, August 15, Bill woke me up ?" and stop reading somewhere on Page 469, sometime before Bill and Hillary go sailing with Walter Cronkite.
Pick up again at "Impeachment" on Page 471. After a page and a half, Hillary writes, "Life moved on, and I moved with it." The next three paragraphs are, inexplicably, about peace talks in Ireland. Skip them. Stop reading entirely at the end of Page 473. Close the book.
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Just a guide how not to buy the book but get to read the good parts.
KOD
Walk into your local bookstore, pick up a copy at the display table, and turn to Page 441, which begins, "Bill told me that Monica Lewinsky was an intern. ?" Read the whole Lewinsky account. Skip the next 22 pages, which deal with, among other things, a trip to China, a series of millennium-themed lectures at the White House, and the preservationist campaign, Save America's Treasures. Instead, flip to Page 464, the chapter titled "August 1998." Read all seven pages. If you're really pressed for time, begin at the very bottom of page 465, where it says, "Early the next morning, Saturday, August 15, Bill woke me up ?" and stop reading somewhere on Page 469, sometime before Bill and Hillary go sailing with Walter Cronkite.
Pick up again at "Impeachment" on Page 471. After a page and a half, Hillary writes, "Life moved on, and I moved with it." The next three paragraphs are, inexplicably, about peace talks in Ireland. Skip them. Stop reading entirely at the end of Page 473. Close the book.
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Just a guide how not to buy the book but get to read the good parts.
KOD
