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Come Join Our Disease
by Sam Byers
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Overall Thoughts:
I'm someone who always believes I should finish a book to be able to judge it, but never has a book come so close to making me question that belief. Apparently, I'm also a bit of a masochist because nearly every page I was begging myself to let this be the first book I DNF. The book starts with a semi-engaging promise that it will explore everything wrong with corporate culture, a deconstruction of capitalism, the humanization of homeless people, and counter-cultural forms of protests. From the book synopsis on the back, you'd almost think this as well. That is, until you get to a certain point where this premise is quickly abandoned and the book rapidly devolves into the main character forming what is essentially a shit cult of homeless women dedicated to shitting on each other, living in shit, eating shit, and having shit orgies. Expect half of the book going on in excruciating detail, for pages at a time, on what is essentially shit worship. If your stomach feels queasy at just that sentence, imagine hundreds of pages of it, in vivid detail! I saw another review on here that starts with, "Local man discovers women can poop and won’t shut up about it." What a perfect summation of this book!
I'm someone who always believes I should finish a book to be able to judge it, but never has a book come so close to making me question that belief. Apparently, I'm also a bit of a masochist because nearly every page I was begging myself to let this be the first book I DNF. The book starts with a semi-engaging promise that it will explore everything wrong with corporate culture, a deconstruction of capitalism, the humanization of homeless people, and counter-cultural forms of protests. From the book synopsis on the back, you'd almost think this as well. That is, until you get to a certain point where this premise is quickly abandoned and the book rapidly devolves into the main character forming what is essentially a shit cult of homeless women dedicated to shitting on each other, living in shit, eating shit, and having shit orgies. Expect half of the book going on in excruciating detail, for pages at a time, on what is essentially shit worship. If your stomach feels queasy at just that sentence, imagine hundreds of pages of it, in vivid detail! I saw another review on here that starts with, "Local man discovers women can poop and won’t shut up about it." What a perfect summation of this book!
Likes:
- Nothing. There is nothing redeemable in this book.
Dislikes:
- All of it. Especially the extremely graphic, pages long descriptions of the characters living in, and eating, literal human shit.
Other Notes:
- If you read this, you will probably need therapy afterwards.
Would Recommend To:
- I would only recommend this to a scat fetishist, and even then I'd recommend professional help first. Alternatively, if you're an aspiring author filled with self-doubt, this might be a good book to give you encouragement because if this literal shit can be published you'll never have any doubt about your own writing again. This book might also be good if you're in the wilderness and need to start a fire.
Do Not Recommend To:
- Literally the entire human race. Do not read this if you want to maintain your mental health.