Ride Sally Ride (Sex Rules)

Good fun. Distinctively contrarian, double-edged perspective on current progressive zeitgeist and evangelical thought leadership. Eerily prophetic reminder that God loves us and wants us to be optimistic. Big Ed and Big Eva beware!

Aside from a couple superfluous passages, a very engaging novel. Fully recommended.

Phenomenal. Period.

It is the only book where my family read it then immediately reread it and also had my mom laughing out loud.

One of the best fiction novels I've read in a while. Laughs, tears, redemption through Christ. I recommend this one to whoever I can

Funny, hopeful, prescient

I have never read any of Doug Wilson's novels, so I didn't know what to expect, but this was just great. Seriously, just read it and you'll see what I mean.

Doug Wilson has a long reputation as a homophobe, a racist, an ability, and one of the most careless, heartless, fools in Idaho. That he has ignorantly chosen the title to include the name of America's beloved Sally Ride shows us just how little he is aware of US history or important cultural icons in the US. This novel (and I use that term very lightly in Wilson's case) is actually just a really bad rant. Wilson is simply a nut.

Brilliant. The style was humorous, the doctrine was on-point, and the characters were sympathetic (or appropriately detestable, in several instances.) Also, uncannily accurate, which is slightly eerie. Please keep on truckin'!

Engaging, relevant, acccurate but not a literary marvel

Probably not a normal gift a son in law buys his father in law but this is the 21st century right? Anyways my father in law struggles to be captivated by any novel and I knew this would not disappoint. Lord willing he will enjoy it and learn to appreciate the folks at Canon as much as my household has.

When writing a satire it is not enough just to mock the subject but to understand the underlying worldview and reveal its absurdities through fiction. Nowadays it seems you don't even need the satire to see absurdities so when satire does appear it's that more absurdly delightful.
Can't wait for the film!

I flew through this novel. It is well-written, with equal parts hilarity and clear-headed cultural diagnosis.

Great read. I could hardly put it down once I started.

Ride Sally Ride (Sex Rules): A Novel

Infectious, timely and potent. Should be coupled with the secular film with a similar storyline to enjoy an apt dichotomy of the Christian worldview and one that is not. Godspeed

Ride Sally Ride (Sex Rules): A Novel

I couldn't help but buy this book when I saw the promo video, and I was not let down. I laughed out loud at a few things (the name Connor Connorson, for example) because it was so obvious. It was easy to laugh at the "bad" characters--those who are obviously are on the wrong, wrong side of history. It was less easy to laugh at the character with whom I most(ly) identified. Satire or not, this book gave me morsels to chew and will be one I recommend. Who knows? Maybe it will make the list of banned books.

Ride Sally Ride (Sex Rules): A Novel

Like the Babylonian Bee the events of the book seem almost more prophetic than fiction. An interesting and humorous storyline well worth the time

A bit over halfway through the book. An interesting and enjoyable mix of humor, cultural analysis, and theological sparring through the thoughts, words, and actions of the characters.

I so enjoyed this. I don't read fiction. It's a rule I have because 90% of it or more sucks. I was going to give this a try because I love Doug, and WOW, I was amazed how engaging the story line is and how stories really can teach complex things in an easily digestible form.

A prescient work

Buy this, read it, and buy copies for all those guys who are frustrated with the way things are going but don't have categories to express what their issues are or how to fight back. Then discuss it with them to the glory of Christ.

As always D. Wilson had me laughing out loud, thinking more deeply than is my normal, and reading excerpts to passers by with laugh-tears dripping. If Wodehouse and Luther ever shared a grandson it would be Doug. I have had Ride Sally Ride for a two weeks now and it has been read three times that number within our circle of friends…my soul needed the refreshment and my mind needed the work.

This might be the weirdest bit of fiction I’ve read, but the author’s point is that this is no stranger than the bizarre non-fiction showing up in our news feed each day. One of the “characters” in the story is a life-sized sex doll, and that had some thinking that this was one of those books. It is not. It is, instead, a comic and admittedly PG-rated commentary on the gonzo culture that produces such things.

The setting is the US of twenty years hence. A Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade has the interior states banning abortion once again and has Americans en masse “reshuffling to states more conducive to their values.” With Christians heading inland and liberals fleeing to the coasts, the country’s outer edges have doubled down on sexual license and given the biggest of bear hugs to Big Brother, even as the heartlands are taking a sharp Godward turn and paring down the size of their governments. Our hero, Ace, lives in Colorado, one of the few inland woke states, where speech is monitored, and the orthodox Christian books are available only on the dark web. Christians are still allowed to circulate, but like the frog being brought to a slow boil, most are unaware of the decided change their innards are undergoing.

The story begins with Ace’s father Benson making the welcome wagon ready for a new neighbor who is just moving in. Cookies are baked, and Ace and Benson head on over to help bring in the heavy furniture, because that’s what good Christians should do. But what should good Christians do when your new neighbor introduces you to his life-size robotic “wife”? Father Benson thinks he should invite “them” over for dinner because, after all, “they” need Jesus. Son Ace grants the point that someone sure needs Jesus, but wants to know why his dad keeps talking about them.

One thing leads to another – we’re still in the first chapter here – and Ace ends up trash compacting his neighbor’s doll, and instead of getting charged with destruction of property, the woke prosecutor charges him with murder, because their neighbor had clearly identified the doll as his wife.

It only gets crazier from there, and in a far too believable way.

If it hasn’t been made clear already, this is not your typical Christian novel. For instance, while many a Christian novel will take God’s name in vain, this one doesn’t. And while no Christian novel ever uses the word “pussy” this one does, twice, used by a non-Christian character who, in her defense, uses it as appropriately as it might ever be used.

But that’s about as problematic as it gets. While this certainly isn’t a book for children, and despite its provocative premise, there’s nothing titillating. This is a satiric commentary on our culture’s dark turn, but that darkness is handled with delicacy.

Ride Sally, Ride is, at regular intervals, laugh out loud funny, and had me reading it to my wife to share the best bits. I’d recommend it for adults who appreciate satire, and while it isn’t strictly dystopian (what with its happy ending) fans of that genre are sure to enjoy it too.

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