This really is the most magnificent wank I've seen in ages.
I wouldn't be inherently annoyed by the son of a journalist having a blog if it was actually well-written or insightful. What gets me about Max's blog is that it knows it's cliched but rather than sending itself up insightfully, it rolls around in its cliches, shits itself, and then rolls around some more. Please. This is the kind of thing that gives gap-year kids a bad name. I've known nineteen-year-olds who could write much more interestingly than that.
Also, interesting to hear your view on The Brothers Karamazov - it's one of those things I always mean to get around to read. I've just finished The Book Thief and really enjoyed it. (I'm the second commenter.) Very much worth reading if you haven't done so yet...
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Date: 2008-02-19 07:43 pm (UTC)I wouldn't be inherently annoyed by the son of a journalist having a blog if it was actually well-written or insightful. What gets me about Max's blog is that it knows it's cliched but rather than sending itself up insightfully, it rolls around in its cliches, shits itself, and then rolls around some more. Please. This is the kind of thing that gives gap-year kids a bad name. I've known nineteen-year-olds who could write much more interestingly than that.
Also, interesting to hear your view on The Brothers Karamazov - it's one of those things I always mean to get around to read. I've just finished The Book Thief and really enjoyed it. (I'm the second commenter.) Very much worth reading if you haven't done so yet...