A sample (actually, when I looked, there weren't very many reviews at all)
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/product-reviewsGod help America if this ignorant, self-obsessed, money-grabbing, hypocritical half-wit is the best we can do. May she return - and swiftly - from whence she came, and take her self-promoting, babbling book of nonsense with her.
415 of 666 people found the following review helpful
I've lived in Alaska for 55 years. I'm a registered independent. I've attended meetings with Governor Palin. I know the lady, not the image she projects. I've got no axe to grind; Palin is now largely irrelevant to Alaska.
From out of all the misstatements, narcissism, spin and distortions that make this biography so embarrassing to read, one indisputable fact emerges: It's pretty clear ex-governor Palin would still be a low-profile politician in the frozen north, but for candidate McCain and his staff. Those would be the same folks she attacks so fiercely in this biography.
Which brings to mind Mark Twain's famous quote: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
368 of 596 people found the following review helpful
These "memoir," co-written with Lynn Vincent, is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. "Going Rogue" appears to be addressing a checklist of grievances that Palin has been nursing just about all her life. Palin's emotional and intellectual development seems to have stalled out somewhere around tenth grade. That works fine for many people, G-d knows--He made so many of them! But a narcissistic, self-absorbed Mean Girl (or Boy) is not what this country needs in its President. When Palin blithely accepted the offer to run as vice president, she was unfazed by the prospect of being a heartbeat away from the White House, with a running mate in his seventies who's survived four bouts of cancer that we know of. As of today, there are at least three versions of the story of how she accepted the offer: what Palin told Oprah Winfrey, what she told Sean Hannity, and what she says in the book. Which is it? Did she ask the kids? Did she discuss it with Todd. Did she "not blink"? Or do we care, so long as it doesn't happen again?
199 of 341 people found the following review helpful:
The buck stops somewhere else,
What is it about Sarah Palin that draws such an emotional response from both the left and right? In all my (considerable) years, I've never seen anything like it and I can't at all fully explain it. Part of it is that Palin is - iike another lightning rod from the past, Phyllis Schlafly - a conservative feminist. Part of it is that she is brazenly anti-intellectual. Add in the fact that she is naturally telegenic and you have someone wholly unique in America.
Now Sarah Palin gets to tell her own story without any filter. I don't know what the hub-bub is about this book because it's standard political fodder. A woman rises from humble beginnings and through hard work and a supportive husband makes it to the national stage. The writing style is rather mundane and plain (yes, I know she didn't really write the book), which tends to be true of all political autobiographies. If you're a fan of Sarah Palin, you'll find her tale of ascent inspiring. If you aren't, you'll find it tedious and predictable. If you like a good memoir, this book won't cross over the bar, but then again politicians tend to all write bad memoirs.
273 of 512 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5
Stars Wow. Way fewer coloring pages than I expected., November 17, 2009
As a serious read about politics in America, this book best serves as toilet paper or kindling. As a hysterically funny look at the rantings of a pathological narcissist and why the Lunatic Wing of the far right must never, ever be allowed to hold power or even reproduce, it's the best political satire since Al Franken or Molly Ivens. If Americans are looking for a writer that makes Bush II look intelligent and thoughtful, NRA Barbie definitely fits the bill.
Incidentally, if this book was written for the "Real Americans" who love this whackjob, who is reading it to these "Real Americans" because many of them are obviously illiterate.
188 of 357 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5
Stars I Love This Book!!, November 17, 2009
This book is so good it made me cry -- it is so touching. I am going to quit my job, so I can do a better job at my job for my company.
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