Funny, I am very aware of the book, (which had a brief vogue of actually being sold in Starbucks), but was never
aware of the seedier side of Michael Gill’s biography.
The reviews glossed over most of what this post detailed.
I’m not normally one of those You’ve Got Mail, anti-chain types, but I loathe Starbucks and everything it stands for - crappy, overpriced products, unhealthy drinks, limousine liberalism, sitting around a cookie-cutter “coffe shop” yakking about life instead of living. Like you can make a corporatized environment to imitate the real character of an authentic hole in the wall.
It’s unintentionally hilarious this guy thinks he’s parachuting into the real world dropping into a SBux. Oh, I also forgot to mention the highly suggestive logo.
A bunch of my friends in grad school would go to SBux in the afternoon as some kind of reward for, I guess, getting through the day. Because life is so tough when you’re getting paid to go to school.
A spoiled rich brat swallows a small dose of reality and thinks he’s discovered some profound truths about the human condition.
What he needs is a real kick in the ass from life. But I doubt he’d learn humility from it.