Overton Window: Chapter 7-9

[sabotabby]

Chapter 7

Noah takes forever to get where he’s going, and spontaneously regrets his evil ways.

Glenn Beck hates PR guys. I get it. I think it’s misguided, given what he does for a living, but whatever. You don’t want me to recap that bit. At the end of the chapter he arrives at the meeting—finally. I really don’t want to read more of Noah’s internal monologuing. It’s like swimming through a sewer. Anyway, he arrives at a redneck bar (in New York City!) intent on teabagging with Molly. He finds it a little bit more crowded than he expected.

Where did the sniper from the prologue go? I’m thinking he’d be useful right about now.

Chapter 8

There are apparently BLACK PEOPLE at the teabagger meeting. See? Glenn Beck isn’t a racist. No Mexicans or Arabs, though.

Anyway, inside the redneck bar, it’s apparently Woodstock, with 60s folk songs and hat-tips to MLK and Gandhi. Can’t wingnuts get their own asinine subculture? Molly’s there, and she’s suddenly nice to him. Noah gets a sweatshirt. And that is all that happens in the chapter.

Chapter 9

Hahahaha, someone’s smoking pot. I mean, besides the author.

To make this book even more boring as shit, Beck throws in a love triangle. Meet Danny Bailey, who has the advantage of actually knowing Molly as opposed to merely ogling her non-deformed body. So, of course, we know they won’t end up together. He’s a sleazeball with highlights and spiky hair. I’m picturing a fake tan, but it might be because Noah also is mentioned as being “between tans.” So these guys are all from the Jersey Shore, apparently.



Noah and Danny exchange douchy barbs—Danny is famous on the internets, and Noah, despite working in PR, does not know about the internet—and then Danny fucks off somewhere. Danny might actually be more of a douche than Noah, but at least he’s not the viewpoint character.

Noah and Molly play a game of truth or dare without the dare part. Noah randomly accuses some guy of being an infiltrator, and Molly eHarmonies that she can “sometimes be a little impulsive.”

Time for a bet. If you have the PDF, no peeking!

[Poll #1608326]

Conspiracy count: 5.5

Comments

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

*fingers crossed* Come on, bear!

[sabotabby]

I am hoping for a bear. Though I think I'd have heard if there was a bear.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's one of those "Don't tell your friends the shocking twist ending to Overton Window" things?

[sabotabby]

The internet could not resist telling if there was a bear. Remember when Scooter Libby's novel had a bear? It would be the only thing anyone knew about the book.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that was a deer. As in, "He asked if they should fuck the deer" or something like that.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

He's moving the right-wing overton window leftwards towards the bear subculture of homosexuality in this book!!! It's a dastardly plot!

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome. It is the ultimate in manliness. That's just a fact.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

All this talk of teabagging is making my mind go to strange places. Still I'm betting Hippy Girl remains chaste...for a few more chapters at least.

[sabotabby]

I think she's a crunchy conservative so she might be willing to engage in some trickle-down economics if you know what I mean.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you mean. About the political stuff that is, the sexual innuendo I understand.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Eeeeew, trickle-down!

[hopita.livejournal.com]

They will do something that we would count as sex but Beck doesn't.

I realized that this would likely include teabagging.

I'm worried, however, that if they do end up teabagging, your head might explode.

[sabotabby]

I will be sorely disappointed in this novel is there is not literal teabagging at some point.

[iclysdale.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I fear that you may have to pick up the shattered pieces of your existence and carry on.

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I think you will be sorely disappointed in this novel, period. I mean, how could you not be?

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

If the phrase "technical virginity" comes anywhere near describing what happens between the two of them, I quit.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

There are apparently BLACK PEOPLE at the teabagger meeting.

Aha! It's not a political book, it's high fantasy! Let me know when they get to the elven city in the trees.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

I bet on the audio book, when they say "black" they whisper it.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

I keep looking for it, and it keeps not being there. :(

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this?

Venezuela will kill you! With Science!

[sabotabby]

Oh God, that is wonderful. Gourd bras! Fantastic waterfront development opportunities! Switzerland!