Two non-fiction in a row. Surely that's some sort of record. Specifically, last night I finished Mike Sager's Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personality. Sager is a journalist who started at The Washington Post as a reporter and now writes "people pieces" for high-end magazines like Esquire, GQ and Playboy. In that light, he appears to be an early Tom Wolfe wannabe.
Revenge is a collection of seventeen of those "people pieces." Some, like one on Roseanne, were very good. Others, like one where he looked and talked to everyone in the US who is named Mike Sager, were tedious as hell. I sense there were more of the latter than the former, but I'm not interested enough to count and categorize them.
IMHO Sager's strength as a writer is his presentation of detail—but I have to admit that I got right tired of descriptions before the book ended.
I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I'll be searching out more.
