[lbo-talk] opening

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 1 12:07:12 PDT 2008


<http://gawker.com/5032018/all-book-has-going-for-it-is-clitoris>

PROMOTIONS All Book Has Going For It Is "Clitoris"

"There are 8,000 nerve endings in the clitoris and this son of a bitch couldn't find one of them." Sound like an opening sentence to a trashy beach novel that aims to be read by thousands of housewives lolling on the Jersey shore before becoming landfill refuse? That's exactly what it is! But since it has such a killer first line, the people promoting the book (Tan Lines, obviously) made a video of all types of random people reading it. Just that line. It's all downhill from there. This is like the far, far less literary version of the video of random blogger types reading from the Keith Gessen FSU remix book. I bet the Tan Lines people wish Julia Allison had showed up to put some flair into it. Aw! Watch the strange clitoris festival, below:



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