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Summary: It's Not Your Fault You're Blind...!
Review: I don't care what anyone says, this book is amazing. It's people like Matt Kent who are silenced by our culture. Arrested and persecuted instead of hailed as a prophet. Mr. Kent is the type of author who will have to die before he gets recognition. One day we will all be crowding around his words. Read this book!
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Summary: IF YOU ENJOYED COLUMBINE READ THIS BOOK
Review: I have never read such an honest book in my life. This guy Matt Kent is kind of crazy, but he's funny as hell. If you get the chance check out his web sites welcomtohell.net jesus666.com and gasstationthoughts.com you will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: This Book IS CRAZY
Review: I read this book in one sitting, and then I went back and read it again. He has this way of captivating his reader. Matt Kent is a GOD.
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Summary: Memories...
Review: I read this book when it first came out, a long, long time ago- in fact, I read most of it on the site before I read it in its book form, being that the name of the site had been spraypainted on the walls of the sanitarium in which I'd spent a good portion of my time before I moved.
The book does, indeed, provide good insight into the mind of a teenager outside of the mainstream subcultures. Although I wouldn't suggest taking the book as a whole and turning it into your personal philosophy, Matt makes a few good points about life in his writings.
Regardless of your views, I suggest reading this book. If it doesn't change your way of thinking, it will at least help you to understand the thoughts that go through the minds of us teenagers from time to time. ^.^
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Summary: ......
Review: I referred to kent as antabanez because i wanted to.
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Summary: parasitic cultural criticism
Review: In Gasstationthoughts, "author" Matt Kent adopts the writing style of a self-obsessed, sexually repressed, 20-something year old pervert committed to arousing the interest, and hence fanatical praise, of pubescent teenagers and disgruntled "adults" who have neither the intelligence nor patience to read works by this century's most notable and accomplished transgressive social critics and philosophers such as Bataille, Nietszche, and deSade. What does set Kent apart from others who share his discursive opinions on the nature of the individual's participation within a larger social community, is that he actually took the time to carefully pen down all of his random thoughts and to even create a website to further continue his self-grandizing. Ironically, Kent wrote Wheeler Antabanez's "memoirs" while pumping gas at a local service station. From a literary perspective, the metaphor of the gas-station suits the contradictory nature of Kent's preoccupations with capitalism, religion, and democracy incredibly well and is perhaps the only aspect of his text worthy of thoughtful analysis. Yet, it is Kent's premeditated effort to pass the uneventful hours at his job writing anti-social monologues that is also most disturbing, as these ramblings clearly reflect Kent's conscious recognition of how easy it is to try and financially monopolize upon a specific demographic of readers who will eat up his verbal diarrhea as if it were the full-course meal that middle-American families regularly feed to their overstuffed, over-comforted, and under-educated teenagers. In an historical period where the value of a liberal education in the humanities is no longer emphasized or appreciated, Kent exists as a representative for a generation of self- educated "students" who are incapable of effectively interpreting what they see around them except from within the confines of their severely limited intellectual and real-life experiences. Lacking exposure to ideas that have shaped our Western epistemological foundations, these "students" of pop-culture go about analyzing and expounding their thoughts on a world they know little about, except from what they gather in abbreviated format from newspapers, television and on the internet. They, unlike the social transgressors of old, prefer to sit safely behind the computers their parents have purchased for them and pretend as if they have the power to inspire and lead a revolt. Yet, they are an embarrassment to the idea of true revolution, for they do not possess the intellectual tools by which to conceive of an alternate reality that they would prefer to the one they lobby against. Instead, they collect their paychecks from the powers that be, while cursing under their breath how everyone should be annihilated (except for themselves of course). As a result, Kent's ramblings are indicative of everything that a democratic nation produces in its dung heap of excess. However, despite Gasstationthoughts mediocrity as a literary work, Kent (who never graduated from high school) exhibits an uncanny love, and even an occasional ear, for the potential power and beauty of the written word that is commendable for someone from his background. Had or should Kent come to the realization that all of his cultural criticism has been a waste of good brain power, he could potentially produce something of quality. Perhaps this work will not celebrate the hallmark accomplishments of mankind, but it may help to raise social awareness as to our country's structural and cultural shortcomings. Until that time, be looking for Gasstationthoughts in your local library's recycling bin after someone has mistaken it for scrap paper.
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Summary: gasstationthoughts
Review: Matt Kent is the first "internet rockstar", with a fan base all over cyberspace. Now, his thought provoking words are off the screen and into bookstores. This book includes well written, and stunningly true and insightful opinions on a variety of topics. This book which is a product of, and in some cases about a truly interesting and beautiful indivdual should be read by everyone just to examine your own views if not to take a look at Matt's.
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Summary: gasstationthoughts
Review: Matt Kent is the first "internet rockstar", with a fan base all over cyberspace. Now, his thought provoking words are off the screen and into bookstores. This book includes well written, and stunningly true and insightful opinions on a variety of topics. This book which is a product of, and in some cases about a truly interesting and beautiful indivdual should be read by everyone just to examine your own views if not to take a look at Matt's.
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Summary: hmmm
Review: Maybe i dont qualify for this review because i havent read the book. However, i have read the entire website and am led to believe that the website and the book are the same, if not similar. I also have read other reviews given to this book.
Personally, i am a prime example of an undereducated middle class teen who is writing this from my parents computer. I believe there should be a revolution, however, i dont thinka successful one can occur without humanity changing first. I agree with much of what the "reader from southern NJ" said. However, he(she) is wrong to pretend he knows what wheeler's readers are like. I know that i am wrong, and i also know the world around me is wrong too. I can think for myself and form my own opinions while i am fully aware that i dont have the whole story. I also believe that everyone *including myself* should be annihiliated. The critic should consider what he knows, first, then critisize.
Now to get to the actual review part. I really like what i've read of wheeler antabanez. I believe that what he has to say can't be ignored just because of his financial background or how self-obsessed he may be. If what he says speaks out to people in need of something to hear (troubled people, perhaps?) then no one can discredit what he has to say. That reviewer should have focussed more time on slamming his literary technique (although quite a bit of time was spent doing that) than his personality. One can pick out any well known figure and point out his personal short-comings. I believe Antabanez' writing is suprisingly good, and his opinions are worth listening to, even if one doesn't agree.
If nothing else, the reader will walk away having learned something--whether its about the government/relogion/terrorism, the mind of one person, a group of people, or oneself.
To end quickly: i won't discredit everything the critic has to say, but he must realize that he is no better than the people he critisizes if he acts sagacious while accusing people (middle-class anitsocial revolutionary teenagers)of thinking they know everything. I am the exact demographic he talks about, but i can think for myself while i still know i dont know everything (actually, i dont know much at all). Antabanez' work is worth the readers time (which is the highest praise a book can get).
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Summary: hmmm
Review: Maybe i dont qualify for this review because i havent read the book. However, i have read the entire website and am led to believe that the website and the book are the same, if not similar. I also have read other reviews given to this book.
Personally, i am a prime example of an undereducated middle class teen who is writing this from my parents computer. I believe there should be a revolution, however, i dont thinka successful one can occur without humanity changing first. I agree with much of what the "reader from southern NJ" said. However, he(she) is wrong to pretend he knows what wheeler's readers are like. I know that i am wrong, and i also know the world around me is wrong too. I can think for myself and form my own opinions while i am fully aware that i dont have the whole story. I also believe that everyone *including myself* should be annihiliated. The critic should consider what he knows, first, then critisize.
Now to get to the actual review part. I really like what i've read of wheeler antabanez. I believe that what he has to say can't be ignored just because of his financial background or how self-obsessed he may be. If what he says speaks out to people in need of something to hear (troubled people, perhaps?) then no one can discredit what he has to say. That reviewer should have focussed more time on slamming his literary technique (although quite a bit of time was spent doing that) than his personality. One can pick out any well known figure and point out his personal short-comings. I believe Antabanez' writing is suprisingly good, and his opinions are worth listening to, even if one doesn't agree.
If nothing else, the reader will walk away having learned something--whether its about the government/relogion/terrorism, the mind of one person, a group of people, or oneself.
To end quickly: i won't discredit everything the critic has to say, but he must realize that he is no better than the people he critisizes if he acts sagacious while accusing people (middle-class anitsocial revolutionary teenagers)of thinking they know everything. I am the exact demographic he talks about, but i can think for myself while i still know i dont know everything (actually, i dont know much at all). Antabanez' work is worth the readers time (which is the highest praise a book can get).
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