Sometimes I pick up a book for no
reason at all. I just happen to read a sentence about it, or the cover
looks good, or the title sounds intriguing. This novel, I picked up on
Twitter. For some reason I followed the author, Robb Skidmore, on Twitter and he put out
some sentences from the book which made me curious. It's a book about
growing into adulthood in the 80s, and a couple of pop music references
made me decide to buy the book.
Unfortunately, the book said
nothing to me. It was just a written version of the seemingly endless
amount of american high school/college films that keep being made.
American high schools/colleges as presented on film might as well be part of a different
planet if you're European.
I couldn't make myself find his
story realistic at all. Nobody can be that stupid. Only in American
films. We meet the slightly awkward kid, who wants
to be one the cool guys, who wants a girlfriend and a career and all
that. And somehow he mangedes to become partly cool at least, and to
get his hands on a couple of girls, all the time wasting his education on
nothing, being a spinless creature without a sense of belonging. Sorry, no sympathy from me.
Skidmore, Robb (2013): The Pursuit of Cool. TMiK Press.
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