Book Club Queen Review
The Book Club Queen just put out a review of Lawyer Boy. It’s a good review, and I thank the Queen for it…only I can’t get over the start of the first line: “As a semi-professional magician and general disgrace, Rick decides…”
General disgrace? Sure, I spent a year after college bumming around my parents’ house, eating their food, using their computers, and watching the Price Is Right…but does that make me a “general disgrace?” I’d argue it made me a time-and-place-specific disgrace, if anything.
Anyway, here’s The Book Club Queen’s review:
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A semi-professional magician and a general disgrace, Rick decides it’s time to get his life together and join his father’s ranks in making “The Only Acceptable Career Choice.” Born to a long line of lawyers, Rick knew that it was only a matter of time until he too entered the fold. Besides, it’s hard to get girls with lines like “Want to come back to my parents’ place?”
After suffering a few sudden, crushing disappointments, he is accepted to DePaul Law School in Chicago. With a dry, intelligent wit, Rick Lax dissects the application process and his first year of law school for our amusement. Notoriously difficult, Rick’s trials and travails prove that even the most unprepared and unlikely 1L’s can survive the test of the first year, and furthermore can maintain and even nourish a lively sense of humor.
Peppered with explanations of real cases and legal jargon, reading LAWYER BOY (St. Martin’s Press / Hardcover / July 2008 / 0-312-37335-X / $24.95) is like borrowing notes from the class clown—It won’t get you an A, but it’s probably the best reading you’ll find in law school.
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Rick Lax has *NEVER* been a
Rick Lax has *NEVER* been a disgrace. The only thing I can say about this review, which is kind to the book, is that he's used some convincing self-depricating humor and apparently it has worked in the eyes of the reviewer. I guarantee his parents have ALWAYS been proud of him, including during his year of deciding what to do with his life.
Describing you as a disgrace
Describing you as a disgrace makes your broader narrative more exciting--portraying your legal journey from zero to hero (even though you were never a disgrace--at least according to your Mom--nor have you yet obtained hero status, let alone passed the bar!). If only for dramatic effect, you might as well accept being labeled as a disgrace.