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A review by jenniferforjoy
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby
2.0
There were good moments, and they were bad moments, and ultimately I probably should have trusted my judgment of the cover. It was okay, even excellent at first, but a little before halfway I realized it all felt very repetitive and gross and male in the worst ways.
Maybe it's in part because I read straight through and they weren't small excerpts as they would have been when presented in Vice originally, but his style of storytelling got tedious. There were many techniques noticeably repeated when read straight through (two. What is dude's obsession with two???).
But mostly it was the meandering style of the telling. The tangents and the weird bullshit that, as he does sometimes acknowledge, felt like what a 15-year-old boy would talk about the first time he was "drunk" off half a beer.
Maybe it's in part because I read straight through and they weren't small excerpts as they would have been when presented in Vice originally, but his style of storytelling got tedious. There were many techniques noticeably repeated when read straight through (two. What is dude's obsession with two???).
But mostly it was the meandering style of the telling. The tangents and the weird bullshit that, as he does sometimes acknowledge, felt like what a 15-year-old boy would talk about the first time he was "drunk" off half a beer.