Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation

Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation Chris Turner Date: 12 October, 2004 — $16.38 — Book product page Rating:

Review of Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation

I've been a devotee of the Simpsons for many years now, and when I saw this book at the library, I checked it out, thinking it would have some interesting tidbits about the show.

However, I never finished the book, as the writing style was boring and ponderous. The author took himself and his subject matter much too seriously. The book was a pathetic attempt to prove how urbane and sophisticated the author thought he was. It was as if he'd swallowed several encyclopedias about popular culture and philosophy, to name a few, and he frequently went off-topic waaaaay out into the tangents of left field.

There were a few interesting points, but they were buried so deep in verbose paragraphs with tortured sentence constructions and awkward neologisms, that I couldn't be bothered to hunt for more interesting parts that might have been there.

Don't bother with this one. It reads as if it were a collaboration between the Comic Book Guy and Sideshow Bob.