Good, cause we're not waiting til the end of this post.......
Overpraised, overwritten, repetitive to the point of madness.....easily the worst book we've read this year...(or any other year for that matter....)
Yes.....you guessed it.....our lowest, foulest rating....an A.F.H.......an ABOMINATION FROM HELL.
This author, much praised and beloved for his YA book and film "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower", spent almost a decade producing this current monstrosity.......
And it feels like we spent a decade trying to endure it in its entirety.......literally a punishment from hell.
Starting it, it seemed promising.......at first it read like an ambitious attempt to duplicate one of those enormous Stephen King epic novels in which children are pitted against overwhelming supernatural evil....(a la "It" and King's collaborations with Peter Straub, "The Talisman" and "The Black House")
But Chbosky possesses none of King's talent and storytelling skills.......as his pages pile up, he hurls endless amounts of fantasy/horror sequences like paint-filled balloons splattering against the wall.
None of it's coherent, the mythology's labored and the same type of sequences get repeated ad nauseum........as if Chbosky thought writing the same scenes over and over again for hundreds of pages would scare you silly.
Exhaustion, rather than fear set in as we plowed through this book.
And that's when a reader begins to realize that this is nothing like a Stephen King book. It devolves into an unbelievably tedious religious allegory........nothing more than a 700 page Sunday Morning sermon delivered by pompous Pastor who never shuts up.......
Somewhere toward the end of this mess, Chbosky delivers his BIG GIANT TWIST....which caused us to foolishly breathe a sigh of relief, thinking we were somewhere close to the end........
No, not even close.......the books drags on and on for another eternity, once again repeating the same stuff we'd already suffered through about 6,000 times.
Speaking of repetition, ....the BQ rating again: An ABOMINATION FROM HELL.
This is one doorstop novel with only one usable function.......
As a doorstop.
And once again, a vital BQ warning: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE AUTHOR BLURBS ON THE BACK COVER OF THE BOOK JACKET...….THEY'RE ABOUT AS RELIABLE AND TRUTHFUL AS THE CRAP TRUMP SPEWS OUT AT HIS RALLIES......
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