Comments on: Don’t buy this book: Monologues for the coming plague http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/ Look on my works, ye mighty, and decide that you can build on my legacies, enhance them and make them even stronger in their own right Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-2561 Sat, 16 May 2009 18:33:17 +0000 http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-2561 Wow. You can’t even see how much of a joke you are. Just another self-important academic who over-analyzes to compensate for his inability to feel a genuine artistic impulse, a true moment of connection.

Look at how many paragraphs of bullshit it takes you to even get to your review.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not anti-academic. But I can see nonsense regardless of its overwrought diction.

]]> By: Alex http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-258 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:24:46 +0000 http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-258 Thank You

]]> By: Marc http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-85 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:18:17 +0000 http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-85 Don’t back down, Jonesy! Keep fighting the good fight.

Yours in philistinism,

]]> By: Derik http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-84 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:22:23 +0000 http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-84 I don’t know if I’d be as hard as you on this book, but I found it very problematic and ultimately not worth the price or the effort. On the other hand some of Nilsen’s other works are excellent. “The End” retains a certain level of conceptualism but also has a powerful emotional resonance. A better example of his purely conceptual work is a great comic in an early issue of Mome that is all colored shapes (mostly squares I believe).

]]> By: Aaron http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-83 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:57:07 +0000 http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-83 I’m a little uncertain that I got my $18.95 worth from this, but in Nilsen’s defense

1. I believe this book was done as an improv thing, and like an improv performance it’s more about watching something develop in “real-time.” I dabble in improv theatre, and a lot of stuff that’s delightful in that format seems awful if you watch it thinking they scripted this and whatnot.

2. Before you slam the door on Nilsen, check out his Big Questions, in which he actually draws good and tells developed stories. They seem to appeal to a lot of folks who dislike the monologues.

]]> By: Chris Mautner http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-82 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:54:33 +0000 http://oneofthejonesboys.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/dont-buy-this-book-monologues-for-the-coming-plague/#comment-82 I disagree emphatically, but I don’t have time or space to delve into why. I’ll have to save it for a future column. I can see why you had the reaction you did, however. But I think ultimately the book isn’t as shallow as you suggest.

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