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  • I didn’t get far enough to critique the entire book. However these were the moments in my limited read that really irked me.

    Ableism - There are two ableist jokes in the first 80 pages and they are not even remotely funny. ”Nor am I wearing a cloak that makes me look like I won a participation trophy at the special needs comic con, Carl.” - this quote came out of nowhere and is entirely unnecessary and I’m sure I would find more like this were I to continue. I understand the cat is supposed to be sassy but really?

    Misogyny - The plot frequently involves women’s naked corpses and rarely features clothed living women. The first three women who appear in the book are 1) his cheating ex-girlfriend whom he narrowly avoided calling a bitch, 2) a fat Latina monster whom he literally puts on a leash as she begs for death, and 3) a dead woman.

    I know I would have a better argument if I had read the entire book but I just couldn’t stomach it anymore and the reason I couldn’t is because of this quote from a review of the book:

    “I think what we get is the result of privileged people who don’t have to care. So those books are simply careless. They are tactless, tasteless, callous, have zero empathy and why? Because they don’t need to be anything else. Again, they don’t need to care. Isn’t it lucky to be on that side, to be the bro-y person who has the luxury to be amused here? Anyone else might end up the butt of those jokes. But it’s just jokes right? It is tiring that some people on this planet can afford to be careless, and to write careless shit, and to publish careless shit, and to laugh at careless shit. And they can do that because everyone else is supposed to stomach the resulting slack for them, to take it all in strides.”

    The full review lives here and if you care it goes more in-depth into the problems of the book: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7548962785