A review by lenin_lover_69
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby

2.0

I really thought I was going to like a bunch of essays written by Golby and then I saw that caitlin Moran and russell brand had commentary printed on the dust jacket and I was like oh no but then I saw sharon horgan and was like oh ok and then (and this is properly on me) realised he writes for vice and that probably set the tone for me reading this and thinking like even a self-aware reasonably woke lad is still a lad and I found it hard to muster much enthusiasm from there on in. He is the type of writer I fear I would be which is that you just want them to write about heavy miserable shit without using self deprecating humour so liberally like I genuinely loved the writing on his dead parents because that is so interesting to me. But just like idk lads writing about liking fucking to me is just a bit grim and I dont want to read about you liking fucking in terms of ironically writing an essay on how unhorny a sex doll makes you!! Dont pointedly use the word sex worker in one essay then use p********* 2 essays later it makes u seem really surface level woke and like I got sucked into this woke guy nonsense like a real chump.