Showing posts with label awful books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awful books. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2009

On Sarcasm

After the last post and some backtracking of previous posts, I realized a trend in my writing. When I need a handy book to mock, I always tend to pick one in particular. Mockery of it in particular is my comfort object, my tickle-me-Elmo if you will. I mean, there are plenty of awful books out there. Why this one?

I think the "poor, little defenseless white male" theme wins the prize. Even as I'm writing this, I'm supressing a giggle. But even if I do giggle, I'm okay with that.

Either that, or I'm snobbish enough to avoid reading a lot of crappy books. That's possible, too.

Either way, yes, I'm aware of the trend.