Even SF Weekly Doesn’t Like Barbara Boxer’s Novel
We promise — this is our last excerpt from a review of Barbara Boxer’s trashy novel A Time To Run (until another good one comes along). This time, even lefty SF Weekly can’t get behind the Senator (D-Marin County):
… any legislator can write sex scenes involving humans. What lifts Boxer’s debut is an episode in Chapter 14 (though it’s tempting to stop reading long before then) in which the good senator — for reasons that flout the very notions of plot or character development — describes two horses doing it.
In language as poetic and moving as a Capitol Hill memo, she writes, “… these two fierce animals were coerced into their majestic coupling by at least six people.”
… OK, OK, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Boxer’s book is bad. … Hardly an insider account of political intrigue, A Time to Run is as generic as its title, which might serve as the best advice to potential readers.
So does she think she produced something worthwhile? If she knew her book was bad, you have to wonder what upside she saw in releasing it. But if she actually thought it was worthwhile, she’s got the literary sensibility and likely the intellect of a ninth grade girl (and one who likes horses, at that).
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October 24th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Like any number of politicians or their apparatchiks, good, bad, possibly well-meaning but potentially misguided or even far, far worse, your Mayor fancies himself quite the wordsmith, and has in recent years been tinkering off and on (mainly off) with a novel. It is – or was – a comic picaresque in which some 190 million Americans