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October 04, 2007
OFF LEASH: On books
"Off Leash" is an occasional column by Fiddler. Past columns can be found here.
So now I read that the Pope's cat, Chico, has written a book. This is not the first time that a book has been written from a celebrity pet’s point of view. Barbara Bush’s dog Millie pawed out a tome, as did Paris Hilton’s Chihuahua, among others.
Seriously, is there anything more saccharine, more sickeningly precious, more flat-out nauseating than someone writing from the point of view of his or her pet? Yeah, we get it, you really love your dog/cat/whatever. And you think it’s SO FUNNY to pretend like a non-verbal animal has literary skill. All your commonplace observations and descriptions of the banal are suddenly infused with comic potential.
Yes, yes. Ha ha.
Also: where's my book deal already?
Posted by teb at October 4, 2007 12:54 PM