After reading the enclosed story "The Pet Goat," I was stunned by its
lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the
layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me
about seven minutes to recover my bearings.
This
is a awesum book!!!!!!!!!, July 20, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
I am going to buy this book right now (if Laura will give me her credit card,
pretty please honey!! ;-)) because I want to try to read it again! I had a copy
three years ago, when I was in Florida on a trip, but I had to throw it away
because I pooped my pants and got some on it because my friend Andy told me
something scary.
can't
fool me again, July 20, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
Enchanting! When this story started, I felt paralyzed. Couldn't move, couldn't
think....all I could do was focus on the story. This is what a good story is all
about! Direct, truthful, honorable...I'll be sure to try using some of those
qualities in any stories I tell. I'm telling you this book is a must-read for
any American patriot. If you don't read it with me, you must be against freedom.
Because this book is really about freedom...freedom from privacy, safety,
truth...etc. Get it, learn it, live it. Not like those crazy goat eating Ayrabs
who hate us because of our freedome and wealth. Especially since they don't know
about our historical deficit.
Why
this book helps me stay calm, July 19, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
When I was little, my Mom always thought my brother was the smart one.
So she would always read to him, but I was in the next room and I could
listen. It would make me so mad! that Mom was reading to Jebby, but I
would calm down by just listening to the story. And I never learned to
like reading.
So a long time later (Guess what! I'm the one who is a big HOT SHOT,
and my brother is just a governor!) when something scary happened I was
able to stay calm by just pretending my Mom was reading this book when I
was in a school. I sat for the longest time and just listened, and I
didn't get upset at all!
So I definately think this is a very good book, and I still like for
people to read it to me, like before I talk to Irish reporters or have
to make that big speech with all the big words every year.
why
does the goat hate america so?, July 19, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
there is only one g-d & his appointed sun so one star for this thrilling tale
that brought the house down...twice
now watch this drive
I
like goats, July 19, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
Ordinarily I don't read anything and just let Condi and Dick tell me what the
books and papers say. But this book is well within my abilities so I showed off
to the kiddies how good I can read. I didn't hold it upside down even once.
After I got done reading and we got back on the airplane I had to pee real bad
so we stopped at Barksdale. It's in Loosiana.
I'm
newcular for this here book!, July 19, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
This here is one ingrossing story. I jest could not put it down, even when some
guy on my staff was bugging me that our country wuz under attack. I tol'em we'd
go take some names and kick some you-know-what, but only AFTER I got thru
finishin' this here story about the goat! I don't like to be inturupted, and I
don't think the nice chilrens I wuz reading to would apreeshiate it eether.
A
bite-sized slice of existential despair (and phonics), July 19, 2004
"My Pet Goat," the story at the physical and spiritual center of this
collection of stories for the emerging semiotician, is at once more and
less than the sum of its parts. When the narrator talks about the goat's
propensity to eat anything in sight -- hats, capes, even voting records
-- the narrator embodies the spirit of the proud pet owner, willing to
tolerate, even brag, about their pet's foibles. Yet when the goat -- at
once both the story's protagonist and antagonist -- successfully wards
off a car thief considered an imminent threat by the narrator's
avuncular, somewhat secretive father figure, one is left to wonder: Do
the ends justify the means? Do they ever?
I rarely delve into the realm of the personal in my reviews, but here
I must make an exception. When I read this work for the first time, the
muscular prose and its powerful import rendered me dumbstruck for
minutes -- seven of them, to be precise. But even after I regained my
composure, I found my thoughts returning to this masterwork, only to
discover that it had sparked in me a thirst for knowledge that no amount
of brush clearing or pretzel consumption could quench. I am a changed
person, and hopefully a better one, for having read My Pet Goat.
Presidential
material, through and through!, July 6, 2004
After reading the enclosed story "The Pet Goat," I was stunned by its
lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the
layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me
about seven minutes to recover my bearings.
This
is a awesum book!!!!!!!!!, July 20, 2004
why
does the goat hate america so?, July 19, 2004
Why
this book helps me stay calm, July 19, 2004
A
bite-sized slice of existential despair (and phonics), July 19, 2004