“Honestly, is it absolutely necessary for every single person in this society to be reading exactly the same book at exactly the same moment?” —Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
Joe Queenan
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Baby Boomers like to take credit for everything good that has happened to this society in the past three decades, but invariably blame anonymous miscreants or wayfaring strangers for everything bad.” —Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“They [Baby Boomers] had not been the first generation to sell out, but they were the first generation to sell out and then insist that they hadn’t.” —Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“The single most damning, and obvious, criticism that can be leveled at Baby Boomers is, of course, that they promised they wouldn’t sell out and become fiercely materialistic like their parents, and then they did.”
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Baby Boomers are the most obnoxious people in the history of the human race.”
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Life spins out of control when middle-aged men refuse to accept that they are no longer twenty. It happened with Bill Clinton. It happened with Mick Jagger. Frankly, I don’t know what happened with Ozzy Osborne. But clearly something.” Related… Read More ›
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Tragically, self-immolation is the only completely egocentric activity that Baby Boomers scrupulously avoid.” Related articles Daily Baby Boomer News Update: February 22, 2013 (babyboomers.com) Book Review Podcast: Joe Queenan on a Lifetime of Reading (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com) Baby boomers fulfilling their carbuying… Read More ›
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Rejecting the verdict of society at large – let’s face it, everybody else hates them – the 75 million Americans born between 1944 and 1960 persist in the delusion that they are really smart, really good, really cool people…” … Read More ›
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“Boomers persist in the belief that they are the most resourceful, most ingenious, most sophisticated, and most important in the history of mankind.” Related articles Book Review Podcast: Joe Queenan on a Lifetime of Reading (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com) Disgruntled (aspiringwriter25.wordpress.com) This Could… Read More ›
Joe Queenan in ‘Balsamic Dreams’
“…Baby Boomers make up the largest generation in American history, and are unarguably the most self-absorbed, the most avaricious, the most deeply entrenched, and the most annoying.”
Books I Read in September 2009
What’s Happening to our Girls? by Maggie Hamilton The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Bag of Bones by Stephen King Balsamic Dreams by Joe Queenan The Eccentric Mr Wienholt by Rosamond Siemon Away… Read More ›
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