101 Things You - and John McCain - Didn't Know about Sarah Palin

by Gregory Bergman

Hunter. Hockey mom. Live action figure.

Sarah Palin is living proof that politics does indeed make strange bedfellows. In 101 Things You - and John McCain - Didn’t Know about Sarah Palin, readers learn the (alleged) truth about the (reputed) Republican darling from Alaska who’s taken the nation by (ice) storm. In this hilarious, irreverent look at the world’s most infamous Miss Congeniality, comedian and WTF? author Gregory Bergman reveals more than one hundred bizarre, obscure facts about the bizarre, obscure governor from Wasilla, 101 Things You - and John McCain - Didn’t Know about Sarah Palin - because politics is funnier than fiction!

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2008

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poorly written and clearly rushed to the shelf to capitalize on the meteoric rise (albeit undeserved) of Sarah Palin. The book is mean-spirited, which is unsurprising, and even allowed. But my review last less to do with that (I share the author's opinions about Palin), and more to do with the book being frequently repetitive. While it does function as somewhat of a source of information (the only reason it got 2 stars), it relies in hearsay, conjecture, and intermixed farce just as frequently. The running gags are boring. Really, as a piece of humor, the book just isn't even funny. Top it off with a series of typos, misspellings, and grammatical mistakes, and this ranks up there with one of the worst I read of the last year. The only reason I finished it was that it was simple and blase enough to grab for the john or to put me to sleep at night.

[Tess · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a book I read hoping to learn a thing or two about Sarah. Unfortunately, I found a poorly-written book full of lies.

I would title this book 101 Lies About Sarah Palin.