BARF BAG INCLUDED
I don't like disparaging other writers or their work. Writing is not a competitive endeavor and all writers -- save for a fortunate few -- have the deck stacked against them. No need to stone each other. I'm gonna make an exception in the case of Jay Mcinerney: boy wonder and literary sensation of the '80s. One of the glitter people.
Gotta hand it to ol' Jay. I've read everything from 'Mein Kampf' to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and never before have I wanted to bitch slap another author. Mcinerney is the very embodiment of everything that was wrong with the '80s: pretentious; trendy; narcissistic. I always got a kick out of how Jay fancied himself the new Scott Fitzgerald. Well, you were half right Jay.
There were two Scott Fitzgeralds: the young, over-inflated, snot-nose who wrote two very mediocre and forgettable novels which earned him entirely too much money (much like your work) -- and the older, broken Fitzgerald who wrote two literary masterpieces which earned him little but immortality. Plain to see which served as your role model.
But none of this is why you turn my stomach, Jay. I can forgive you for being a cliched, uninspired, hack of a writer; but in your very mediocre and forgettable novel, 'Brightness Falls', you state that the only way a man can understand what it's like to be born a woman with large breasts is to be sent off to war and shot at (no folks, I'm not making this up). Your "novel" should come complete with its own barf bag. Let's recap. You compared the horrors of war to the burden of hauling around a pair of double Ds. Are you for real???
Seriously Jay, I know you're just pandering to the feminists -- showin' how sensitive you are -- but I know women who've actually paid big money to have their breasts augmented. You know any guy who's paid to be sent off to war and have his nuts shot off??? I'm certain tits and war are two subjects you know very little about, and the closest you've ever come to combat is a pillow fight with Michael Chabon. Please, please try to refrain from making such idiotic declarations in the future. It's an insult to all the men -- and women -- who've given life and limb in defense of this country, and beneath even a sniveling, pantywaist such as yourself.
Then again, what can you expect from a "creative artist" who had himself incorporated? Thank God your career (like the '80s) is over.
Gotta hand it to ol' Jay. I've read everything from 'Mein Kampf' to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and never before have I wanted to bitch slap another author. Mcinerney is the very embodiment of everything that was wrong with the '80s: pretentious; trendy; narcissistic. I always got a kick out of how Jay fancied himself the new Scott Fitzgerald. Well, you were half right Jay.
There were two Scott Fitzgeralds: the young, over-inflated, snot-nose who wrote two very mediocre and forgettable novels which earned him entirely too much money (much like your work) -- and the older, broken Fitzgerald who wrote two literary masterpieces which earned him little but immortality. Plain to see which served as your role model.
But none of this is why you turn my stomach, Jay. I can forgive you for being a cliched, uninspired, hack of a writer; but in your very mediocre and forgettable novel, 'Brightness Falls', you state that the only way a man can understand what it's like to be born a woman with large breasts is to be sent off to war and shot at (no folks, I'm not making this up). Your "novel" should come complete with its own barf bag. Let's recap. You compared the horrors of war to the burden of hauling around a pair of double Ds. Are you for real???
Seriously Jay, I know you're just pandering to the feminists -- showin' how sensitive you are -- but I know women who've actually paid big money to have their breasts augmented. You know any guy who's paid to be sent off to war and have his nuts shot off??? I'm certain tits and war are two subjects you know very little about, and the closest you've ever come to combat is a pillow fight with Michael Chabon. Please, please try to refrain from making such idiotic declarations in the future. It's an insult to all the men -- and women -- who've given life and limb in defense of this country, and beneath even a sniveling, pantywaist such as yourself.
Then again, what can you expect from a "creative artist" who had himself incorporated? Thank God your career (like the '80s) is over.
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