Glenn Beck

making Dan Brown look like Tolstoy. Though a ghost-written novel that re-circulates a story written by your ghost writer is not exactly the same as “writing a novel”. I’ve done a bit of ghost-writing. You can do it in order to try to capture the minds and heart of somebody who just can’t get things down in writing very well due to busyness or lack of skill with a pen. Or you can do it because the guy you are ghosting for has a name that will sell books even though he’s got no idea how to craft the mess of half-formed nonsense he is babbling into a coherent whole. It sounds as though Beck probably regurgitates some of his various fearcast theories and speculations over the phone for his ghost and then tells the ghost to squish it all into whatever story he can come up with. The ghost already has a story that he published before, so he recycles that and crams in some speeches by Glenn Beck in the mouths of sundry characters and they stick a snazzy cover with Beck’s name on it and rush it into print. Bam. Instant bestseller for the folks who learn so much from Glenn Beck.

The reviews will be bad, but every bad review will be rejected by the faithful as the snooty hostility of a bunch of Poindexters who don’t appreciate the taste of Real Americans. It can’t possibly be that it’s just a bad book. If millions can do it with Dan Brown when he recycles the dreck of Holy Blood Holy Grail, why not with this latest piece of recycled dreck?