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Title: Baseless and poorly thought out
Review: For a self-confessed cultural snob, Queenan doesn't seem to know much about the methodologies of good criticism. While an undeniably gifted rhetorician, Queenan is in rather shallow water indeed. By presenting no standard for his attacks except for some arbitrary mythical aesthetic that he declines to share, his rantings don't have any basis in any discernible paradigm of taste. Queenan simply spits out his bile with little concern for organization or insight. He comes to no grand conlusion and when at a loss for a valid objection, he devolves into the 'this sucks because it sucks' type of thing. His targets range from the too easy (Yanni, John Tesh, Cats), to the hopelessly out of date (Molly Ringwald, Love Story...Love Story!?). And some just seem out of place considering who their surrounded by (Billy Joel). Good crticism is noted for clarity of structure and rigor of thought. Both are noticeably absent here.
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