Here is a great example of how *not* to write a review by a self styled "doctor" who probably is the same kind of doctor as dr. fever or dr. pepper. He just uses big words like verbal wallpaper to hide that he has nothing to say. Hes one of those dorks who thinks he's smart but he's super, super, super dumb. My 3 year old kid sister is already smarter than this douche.
As you can tell he doesnt know the first thing about literature and is as stupid as a rock.
1. Just don't read reviews on Amazon
2. Pretty sure he's taking the piss, but I stopped reading before I knew for sure
Always look forward to the latest review from ol' Doc Suglia. Go through his catalogue. He literally reviews every Chuck book with one-star. Dude is soooooooooooooooooo fucking in love with him but shows it like a third grader.
Edit: While we're on the subject, this is the dude that used to make fake accounts on The Cult just to talk shit on Chuck.
That review was a manginifient waste of time. And I only gave it a two minute scan. How much weed do you have to smoke to string that stuff out?
He writes absurd reviews for every Palahniuk book, most likely because he wants to bring attention to himself in an effort to sell his own books. I'm assuming Palahniuk is his primary target when it comes to reviews considering they both write transgressive stuff while Palahniuk is probably the bestselling author of transgressive fiction, so an Amazon review of one of his books would get more reads than a book by a lesser known author.
Here's my review of the book if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/review/RSZWQMPBM8WGY/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0385533020&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=
Wow, Bradley, your review was right on the money. I might not even bother with a review of my own, now. Like you said, it was entertaining as hell, but made less sense than Chuck's older works.
As for that other asshole's review, well, I'm glad someone has that kind of time on his hands.
Oh hello Joe Suglia, how's it going? Come to invade LitReactor too?
He's a narcissist. He probably isn't a dumbass, but it's easy to perceive him in such a light when he's constantly reviewing books he doesn't like in the same manner, with a bunch of references and few paragraphs filled with his extensive mental dictionary. It gets boring pretty fast.
He reminds me of this guy I knew in high school who was exceptionally gifted with Math. He could remember Pi to several hundred digits but he was a complete asshole about it. Nobody really cared.
I love him. It's taken me three or four years, but I actually love Suglia. He's a fantastic experiment. God bless the guy and all his sock puppets. I mean it.
I'm going to write up a little article about him.
You really think the OP is him?
Wow, what a crazy person.
I'm sort of upset that I've been made aware of his existence.
@Brandon
I assume so, since they joined today and made a single post, using the kind of hyperbolic description in the thread title that Suglia himself might have used.
Suglia seems to be some kind of social experiment. On the surface he's a narcissistic, self-indulgent prick with a passion for self-promotion. But I love reading his reviews. I wish so many more people weren't afraid of writing reviews like that. It doesn't matter if you disagree with him — that's the entire point. If you're offended, good! Get your balls out and argue about it if you care that much. If you don't, then why are you offended?
Suglia's great strength, I think, is his erudition. He's just clever enough to make his reviews interesting on a level beyond the merely voyeuristic. He's jerking off to the sound of his own voice, but it's fascinating. He does know more than the average reader. I'm always amused and intrigued by the number of people who think he's just showing off his vocabulary — that's a pretty pedestrian criticism to aim at someone. He uses big words and somehow he should be reprimanded for that? He quotes (not so-)obscure poets in his reviews and that alone makes him pretentious? Fuck you, society. He's doing what I wish everyone would do. He's being a complete cock with a brain and an entrepreneurial spirit. He's not trying to make friends.
Sure, I disagree with a lot of what he says. And I wouldn't want to meet him, because he really does sound like a douche. But that's part of the magic. Suglia, as an experiment in trolling, is High Internet Art. He's merging the old standards of erudition and ostentatious learnedness with the more modern criteria of unconditional irreverence and Purely Dumb Shit.
I second that.
I hope he speaks like that in person.
@Bekanator
"He could remember Pi to several hundred digits but he was a complete asshole about it."
That's one of the funniest things I've read in a very long time.
If you're not weaving that into a piece of fiction, you really need to.
@cowboywerewolf - Perhaps one day. He also dated all three of my best girlfriends in high school, dumping each one for the last. He even told one of them that he was saving her as a backup. He wasn't really attractive; he just flattered his way in with large words over MSN conversations. He also wrote them epic love poems. That's how you hook up with high school girls.
He makes lots of good points in his reviews. Doesn't seem petty to me.
Although you make some good points for liking Mr $uglia, I can't bring myself to do it.
He's an asshole that used to lurk the Cult and I hated dealing with him. I'm pretty sure that us mentioning him at all is helping him out though and that's why I won't spell his name right. When it comes to google, any mention is good. It doesn't matter if people are saying good things or bad, they still increase your chances of getting "found."
I had a conversation with him once where he was trying to promote his book to me and pretty much called me an idiot because of my taste in books. It may be true - but not the best tactic for when you're trying to get me to buy your book.
Reverse psychology, Pete. Works on women and book clubbers.
I'M IMMUNE!!!1!
I've chatted with him before. He said it was nice to meet someone who thinks with his own brain.
His reviews of Clevenger's books are even more troll-ish.
Wow, I couldn't stop reading -- like watching a car crash. Well that guy is quite opinionated.
2 or 3 days late -- just want to get this into the annals of internet history.
In this case, mine and Phil's balls are on the same side of the table. Even so, I don't agree with slaughtering the innocent for no real gain. That said, I enjoyed reading the review.
Aren't weird, self-absorbed /-possessed /-important people regular fixtures in ChckP's work? You love them in fiction but the idea that one actually exists gets you all in a twist? QuéTF?
Those reviews were actually a good read, and I agree with them to extent. Everybody is always rehashing somebody else, but in this day and age is there much of another way? The writing world has changed, everybody just finds their successful niche and runs with it. Why wouldn't they though? To be a writer in this world, you must use an audience formed by somebody else. Otherwise you're a nobody and will remain that way.
Wow I will have to read this suglia guy! He sounds like an interesting character and a good writer.
Let me tell you something about this Sug.
Sug is a douchebag.
Sug is always hatin on Chuck.
Why do you think he keep hatin on Chuck?
I know why. Sug has got a crush on Chuck.
Sug is a boner for Chuck.
Sug is fug. And that's some fucky shit.
Oh, look. He's back. Not much of a hiatus.
@eggy
if you're gonna post, don't be a retard. Post in english, properly. Or in french, PROPERLY.
Je ne pense pas qu'il sache comment.
oh egmont. don't listen to the haterz i love your pure lit gold. maybe we should start our own site? muahahaha.
He's the Armond White of book reviews. It's a really weird and occasionally entertaining thing.
he's a funny ghost ain't he? i'm going to sit on his grave Jun 5th and shove hot dogs through the dirt and maybe even light some sparklers. and then if he doesn't push his weenis back through the dirt like a good boy i'm gonna dig him up and bone him. here's hoping I reach his hip first because i think he probably had a really big head you know because he's pure genius.
He reminds me of the trolling e-mail guy, unfortunately the world doesn't read enough books.
We must keep this gift.
We am Suglio.
We am Suglio.
We am Suglio.
Someday when I write a novel.
Will you review my shit?
You gonna review my shit?
Compare it to dog water and piss.
It's pretty good for a dropout isn't it?
Salinger wrote it.
wait, has it been said yet that damned is probably the worst book ive ever read? cause... it pretty much is....
damned is the worst book i've ever read. seriously.
Forrest Gump was the worst book I ever read. Damned wasn't bad, definitely not his worst. And, it was way too much like Hell by Robert Olen Butler.
The bible.
the mormon bible.
"Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus" by Miley Cyrus
SHUT THE HELL UP! My niece wanted me to read it to her! Worst. Book. Ever. Something mentally ill about it.
@matt attack
I mean, it might as well have been transgressive for kids. A person meets their alter ego. So, the girl meets the girl she is pretending to be.....yeah...
I would love to meet Sug in real life and punch him in the face.
Would I do it because I don't have a great intellect, perhaps. I may even have an IQ of 76.
But I think me punching him in the face and his reviews serve the same purpose... They accomplish nothing other than proving we are petty and spiteful creatures who must take out their anger on other people.
If he wasn't molested as a child he should have been. Probably the only show of affection he would ever receive in his life.
And that my friends is how you be spiteful.
I can sense your anger.
If only I could get that across in my writing. lol
Diaz, why do you have such a huge 4th grade crush on Suglia?
@utah diaz wants to secretly bone suglia wants to secretly bone chuck?
