I just started reading "A Mother's Gift" this morning and made it halfway through chapter 2. Wow, this book sucks. But maybe I'm being too judgemental. There are differing opinions - I, for one, quite like Barry Ballpoint's review on amazon.com:
Superlative, Erudite, Inspired, Quintessential Magnum Opus, October 11, 2001
Reviewer: Barry Ballpoint "captainreflection"
Who could have imagined that Britney Spears and her Mommy are in possession of literary skills comparable to William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Marcel Proust combined? Flitting effortlessly from allegory worthy of Dante and Homer, to farce reminiscent of Waugh, Twain and Thurber, and back again to weltschmerz and pathos no worse than Gogol or Du Maurrier, this roller coaster ride visits the picaresque meadows, the sesquipedalian supermarket, the portmanteau prominade, and the Magister Ludi malt shop without ever stopping for fries and chili beans. For those uninitiated in the arcane, the oblique, or the obtuse, or have not spent time in French Sidewalk Cafes pretending they are speaking to Sartre' while he was scribbling notes for "Being and Nothingness" with one hand, and slurping expresso with the other, I have a suggestion. I would respectfully suggest you work your way up to this Sacred Level of Mount Literati, and the Polymaths who await you there, crosslegged, like Tibetan Monks, mentally x-raying your brainal jello-loaf, divining your comprehension, probing ..... *whew*, where was I?...and read "Why I Wish I Had a Pony" by Christina Aguilara first. I believe this work will prepare you for the larger project ahead courtesy of the Spears Roebuck Authorial team. Don't forget to pack at least 3 boxes of Kleenex (preferrably with that new vaseline coating so you don't chap up from all the blubbering), and keep some sort of dog or cat nearby in case you need to pet something furry in mid-read. There seems to be no question now that Britney and her Mommy have displaced Jewel as the greatest writer of her generation.
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Soooo...it is bad then? Darn, I was so rooting for the little bubble-head. I mean, if she managed to break-through as a writer, she might have stopped "singing", and that would have been good for all of us. Except maybe you, Dena. My condolences on the read ahead.
Oh, there is no read ahead. I'm throwing in the towel, giving up, quitting. Slapping a big "Reject" all over this book and handing it back. Life's too short to waste a couple of hours reading this drivel. Sorry Brent, guess you're stuck with Britney the singer if I have anything to do with it.
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