There was a speaker during MSA that was supposed to talk about gifted children and her experiences with them, blah blah blah suck up to us, make us feel special, --applause-- and exit. well, she kind of got sidetracked and ended up basically advertising her book and we all fell asleep and the general consensus i got afterwards was that she was not at the top of anyone's "favorite speakers" list. to get to the point, her name was Stephanie Tolan and she wrote Welcome to the Ark. i looked for it for awhile, gave up, randomly wandered into Barnes and Noble, and found it so far away from where it should have been shelved it was sad. so i got it and read it. its not too bad minus the fact that its written in a style that is very similar to the stuff you'd find in a high school English room working on creative fiction.
-shrug- just wondered if anyone else had bothered to read it. and to say to those who didn't/haven't/don't care to: it really is an interesting book, especially since its (loosely?) based on something real.

I still haven't been able to find it around here..... :)

Here it is.
I wouldn't be able to bring myself to read it, after her speech... although after that I shamelessly made fun of her speech in Comedy Sports and the Class Sampler (I met a bunch of new people right after that... apparently dislike of her was about universal at MSA).

you made fun of her at comedy sports too? I should have gone to that, instead of...whatever I went to that night.

haha...I was also in Comedy Sports that night. However, I have no recollection of you at all. Perhaps that's some sort of omen. :huh:

Yeah, I've read it, and the sequel too. They weren't terrible, but they weren't great either. They were just that kind of not-very-good bland storytelling style that seems to be all you need to write to get published these days.

Yeah, I feel kinda brain dead now that I've read it.

I felt intellectually inferior because I wasn't smart enough to talk to trees.