Reviews for Never mind the Pollacks

The average rating for Never mind the Pollacks based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-08-18 00:00:00 David Dobson Neal Pollack is the guy in school that all the boys thought was funny. All the girls wavered between wanting to kick him in the balls and wanting to send him secret love notes because they kept thinking that maybe, maybe if he were to hone it just a little, that he could be a really truly funny dad to their babies some day, and that maybe, maybe he might even just make a little money off his humour - if he were to somehow hone it a bit. He didn't hone it. In other words, this book is not funny.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-06-23 00:00:00 Jeffrey Wong Neal Pollack skewers fifty years of rock-and-roll idol worship in this mean-spirited, yet laugh-out-loud funny, piss-take on rock criticism. From its cough-syrup swilling anti-protagonist, the out-Lester Bangs-ing critic Neal Pollack (yeah, you read that right) to its swipes at everybody from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen to Iggy Pop to Johnny Rotten to Kurt Cobain, Never Mind the Pollacks is a wild, decadent, and fun ride through rock-and-roll excess. Sure, it’s nothing Hunter Thompson didn’t already do years earlier, but it’s still fun.