This was a piece of reporting that simply never took off. The reporter was not able to get the subject of the story to open up, and the whole article contains nothing that was not found in the endless discussions on the forum that he referenced. The result is a meandering and repetitive article which seems bloated and full of fluff. I don't see any really compelling or three-dimensional characters in it. Mark Singer should have had the guts to say "I didn't get the story. The guy wouldn't open up, I've got nothing interesting to say about him". Instead, he holds the reader's attention with every trick in the book, leaving us with nothing at the end of all the buildup. I do appreciate literature, but this just isn't literature, and it's bad reporting.