Posted on 11/07/2005 9:43:11 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
A STEAMY novel by I Lewis "Scooter" Libby has become a hot item now that Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff is under indictment.
An inscribed copy of The Apprentice: A Novel, which Libby wrote in 1996 when he was a relative unknown outside Washington, was on sale on online bookseller Amazon.com today for $US2400 ($A3280). Unsigned hardcover copies were going for $US700 ($A956).
Now out of print, the novel tells the story of an innkeeper apprentice in a bizarre coming-of-age story set in Japan in 1903. It is littered with edgy sexual material and strong language.
"Wow, who would have thought that clean living, family values man Scooter Libby was capable of writing such filth," said one reviewer on Amazon.
Another Amazon reviewer noted its "lavish dollops of voyeurism, bestiality, pedophilia and corpse robbery."
Libby was charged last month with perjury in a special prosecutor's probe into how a CIA operative's identity was leaked to journalists.
Libby's writing skills also happened to be displayed in a widely published letter to reporter Judith Miller of The New York Times that showed a flair for literary allusion and ambiguity.
"Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them," he wrote to Miller as she sat in jail earlier this year for refusing to reveal Libby's identity as a source.
This whole plamegate thing appears to be a devious plot by Rove to increase Libby's book sales.
No, but I heard excerpts all day friday, saturday and sunday. If people think that the STUPID! letter he wrote to Miller had some hidden meaning, then all they need do is reference just a couple references from that novel, and see that Libby should be a lawyer, and WAY behind the scenes.
If it's true that there a section in there with a bear raping a child, not only will I not read this but I have some serious doubts about the morality of someone who would write such garbage. Just the thought of it makes me want to puke.
LOL
You better watch out, they are going to give you and honorary PhD from D.U.
N-a-a-a-h-h; I don't think so.....but give us some documentation, excerpts, quotes.....etc.
lol
I heard about this last Friday. Unfortunately I have a weird pagan feminist sister who listens to Air America. She called and told me about this novel Libby wrote and the bear rape scene. I dismissed it as exaggeration by the left. I went to Amazon and saw how high the prices were although one could get a paper back for 85.oo. I don't know if the liberals are buying all the copies up so they can lie about the contents or if it is a border-line porno novel. If it is the latter, would'nt you think a Washington attorney should be a tad smarter than to publish garbage, especially using his own name? gee.what's next????
I know that while prostitution in Pre-WWII Japan was ubiquitous, bestiality was non-existant in Japanese culture.
It sounds like a cheap copy of Yukiguni (Kawabata Yasunari) to me.
The Apprentice: A Novel
'The Apprentice'?
YOU'RE FIRED!
I agree that if Libby wrote this garbage, he is in my opinion, mentally unstable and suspect in ALL areas.
neocons are phony conservatives.
Was the rape heterosexual or homosexual? Was the victim over the age of censent or not? Droolingly eager, underemployed, lawyers are eagerly awaiting your reply.
They are also seeking the present address and email address of the victim.
PETA has yet to be heard from, though those familiar (pun intended) with the "animal rights activists" expect a response momentarily. >/sacr off
If this is true, it would seem that Clinton overlooked a perfect candidate to serve in his Administration.
With so many skeletons in their own closets, it's no wonder the Dems are so adept at locating the skeletons in the closet's of others.
PETA will have no interest in the case unless it is determined that a STD was passed on to the bear by the rapee,
And there was another part in the book where a hunter debates whether he should have "sex" with a deer carcus before it gets cold.
There is something wrong with this guy.
Good grief, it's just a novel. Doesn't sound like anything I'd read. But if we're going to hold authors accountable for the depravity of the characters in their stories... might as well just arrest Steven King now.
These images are very bizarre to our prudish Western mentality, but art isn't always meant to be safe, or comforting.
Get a load of this!!!! Talk about a sick mind.
Prudish????
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