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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined)
by Chuck Klosterman
I enjoyed this book, but had to give it three stars because I ended the book less excited about it than I was when I started. The three stars are as much my fault as Chuck's. I was hoping this would be a discussion of the character structure of villains in general rather than an examination of what makes one person a villain over another in popular culture. There's nothing wrong with his examination--it's thoughtful and often funny--it just didn't quite offer me what I was hoping for when I started. It's also still a valuable explanation that helped me realize why a character could be considered a villain in a story; it just didn't speak to that specifically. I'm also not much of a football person, so many of his football-based stories were only tangentially interesting.
But his honesty and his examination of those American culture tends to consider "villainous" is still definitely worth a read. This book is probably much more widely appealing than the book I thought this was would be, to be honest. Only WRITERS would read about CHARACTERS, right?
But his honesty and his examination of those American culture tends to consider "villainous" is still definitely worth a read. This book is probably much more widely appealing than the book I thought this was would be, to be honest. Only WRITERS would read about CHARACTERS, right?