You know, I am sort of notoriously awful at interviews, because I continuously interview out of my league, as in volunteer for the hardest, most public jobs even though I have insufferable social anxiety (two years ago I had never done an interview onstage, yet I somehow convinced Loic Le Meur to let me do LeWeb Paris and yes, bombed hard).
But these insufferable eight were billed as Italian-Americans (though who really knows?), and their display of debauchery and self-absorption was so over the top that it quickly drew complaints of ethnic stereotyping.
He's a Shakespearean fool of the first order, an insufferable windbag whose words are empty of meaning, though he believes that the bluster he speaks is language and that he is communicating.
And it will still be trounced in the ratings by an N.F.L. game between the Bears and the Lions even though watching that requires listening to the insufferable Jon Gruden for three hours, making it a shame that Nielsen does not measure how many people watch the game on mute.
While the insufferable Too Cool Wesley Jonathannursesses abandonment issues ("I don't do love," he informs us, though, as we later discover, he does do diapers), the infantile Dog (Chico Benymon) tries to overcome the dual handicap of a short-bus I. Q
The insufferable lines and the need to be rescreened at security even though you have never left a secured area is unexplained.
And though the acting, if we ignore Cary Elwes's insufferable turn as a toffee-nosed lawyer, is excellent (Agnes Bruckner shines as Ibrahim's stalwart ally), the story's accumulation of contrived setbacks strains credulity.
Not a biography but a fans notes, the fact-based musings of a fellow novelist on the life and work of a personally insufferable man without whom 20th-century fiction would be unreckonably impoverished (though easier to read, maybe).
Not a biography but a fan's notes, the fact-based musings of a fellow novelist on the life and work of a personally insufferable man without whom 20th-century fiction would be unreckonably impoverished (though easier to read, maybe).
Or would you: like to admit now that maybe, even though you still think he is the world's most insufferable prick (and I still do, sorry), that maybe the problem lies with you, and not him?
