http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0026863553?v=glance8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Edge of your seat, spellbinding excitement!, July 16, 2006
Reviewer: Bush-makes-charles-manson-look-like-a-saint - See all my reviews
Wow-- this has got to be the best literary work ever! It makes "Gone With The Wind" seem like junk. The first time I read this, the house next door was on fire-- (i accidently started the fire, i just started reading this after I came from visiting next door). There was a family living there---a husband, a wife, and three young children. The fire was spreading and they were pleading for help. No one else could hear their cries but me. But it was not as important as finishing "The Pet Goat". From the first sentence, I was hooked! As the adults were burning alive, it meant nothing to me. I just had to find out if the girl got to keep her pet goat. When the part about the car robber came, i was biting off my fingernails in suspense. The three children then started to burn alive, and there was no one who could hear them but me. My knees were shaking in suspense as what would happen when the goat saw the robber. Well, I don't want to ruin it for the rest of you. All I can say is, I was not dissapointed. Touching, moving, and at the same time, over the top! WOW. Oh by the way, all the family members next door died, it was too late. I could have helped them or called the fire department, but finishing "The Pet Goat" was far more important. Even though this fire was caused by me, I feel no guilt whatsoever of being responsible for innocent lives lost. Get this book, you won't be dissapointed! You can see how good it must be, if finishing it is more important than helping dying people who are dying because of your actions.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
A literary masterpiece, July 12, 2006
Reviewer: Georgy (TexAss USA) - See all my reviews
My Pet Goat is a werk of pure jeen-yus. When Andy told me that them "terr'ists" was crashin' planes into buildings, all I could think about was how I wanted a pet goat of my very own. But then ol' Dick sayed I couldn't have one, 'cuz taking care of pets is a huge responsibilility. Goats is smart and they like to eat stuff. Remember back in 2000, that big ol' hullaballoo down there in Florida with the funny ballots? Well, my brother Jeb just fed a buncha them ballots to his pet goats, which made it so the Supreme Court made me Dictater-er--Commander in Cheef. Anyways, this book helped me through a very stressful time, and I reccomend it to everyone, even though Condi says it's "above my reading level" whatever that means. I have to go now though, because Dick says my interweb time is up. You should all bye this book.
Your frend,
Georgy in TexAss
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Interesting, but tough book to understand, June 28, 2006
Reviewer: St. Louis Book Lover (Edwardsville, IL United States) - See all my reviews
I really really liked this book (a lot, in other words) but the problem is, My Friend Andy interrupted me while I was reading this book, so it was tough for me to concentrate long enough to get what the book was saying, but I think the book had something to do with Iraq and making money from a lemonade stand or oil or something like that. It was a real good book though, but I wish my other friend (her name is Laura, and she's my wife because I'm straight, and the constitution allows me to be married to a girl--cool!) hadn't told me that it was mostly a picture book because the truth is, there were A LOT of words in there too. But sometimes when there are a lot of words in something, you can get somebody (like my other friend, who is not my wife, Condi) to read it out loud to you, though that doesn't mean you'll always pay attention to what she's reading, especially not when you're on VACATION!! No homework during vacation, no way! Anyway, you should (everyone should, it's your patriotic duty) read more books about goats and stuff, and even if your house is on fire or something, DON'T STOP READING THE BOOK because that would PANIC everybody! And we all know that people shouldn't react like it's an emergency when the house is on fire or stuff. So -- real cool book, but very very tough book. And I can honestly say, when people ask me, yes, our children is learning, and I am kind of learning too, but not so much people will make fun of me for being one of those bookworms who are SO WEIRD!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Even Chicken Hawks Love Goats!, June 26, 2006
Reviewer: George W. Bush - See all my reviews
I love goats. They go "baa-aaaah!" when Dick comes in to tell me something about some "unsure-gency" being in its last "throws". Goats eat anything you give them... especially letters from whiny, cry-baby GIs pleading for proper body armor. Well my goat just eats 'em them letters for lunch! Sissys. Goats are a government's best friend. Now that our communist "liberal" media has let the cat out of the bag that I'm illegally tapping all your bank transactions, phone calls, and internet traffic to, uh.. what was that Dick? Oh yeah, to "catch terrorists"... well some whiny liberals and "libra-tarians" might feel anxious about having all their records out in the open. Well, that's where the goats come in. Want pages and pages of illegal warrantless wiretaps, records of your bank accounts and printouts of your emails and phone conversations to disappear? Give 'em to my goats! Before some un-American, unpatriotic liberal newspaper can find them. Yes, pet goats have a million uses. And because of my... what name did we give them again Dick? Oh yeah... "terrorist-catching" programs (gotta keep 'em scared! Right Dick?), the need for speedy shredding of documents hasn't been this great since my friend Kenny Boy Enron had his going full blast. Ah, if only my two good friends Kenny Boy and Jack Abramoff had used GOATS to eat their emails, they wouldn't be facing prison time. And when someone calls me a Chicken Hawk for sending our nation's men to die for my ego, I sic my goats on them (what's that? Really? We've upped the recruitment age past 40 because we can't meet our quota?) Does that mean Karl has to go? See, there was just one problem though. With all my illegal programs, the need for goats has increased like, a zillion times. Then Rummy told me there were plenty of goats in a country call "Eyerack." So I invaded. And now we have liberated hundreds of oppressed goats and shipped them here to the States to munch up copies of your bank records. Oh yeah, and outsource your job too. But ya gotta keep that one under wraps. The New York Times doesn't know about that one yet. Yes, everyone... the perfect animal for a nation of people mindlessly following their leader like sheep: GOATS!