You know, that might actually make for at least a semi interesting character and arc. Like watching this incel see the light and growing as a person could be quite nice I think.
Fun fact: the actor Carey Elwes (he played Westley in the Princess Bride) really is a descendent of the real life guy who inspired the character of Scrooge, John Elwes. John Elwes was so miserly that he would eat rotting meat rather than buy fresh food.
Does the main character of "The Finkler Question" not realize that he can just...convert to Judaism if he wants to be Jewish so badly? Like, we take converts. On second thought, nevermind, I don't think we want him specifically. Howard Jacobson IS Jewish but this still book still feels wrong.
The fact that he is Jewish makes it worse in a way lmao. Imagine a Christian author writing about a non-Christian character having an obsession with Christianity hahaha. Also, good point, why doesn't he just convert to Judaism 😭
my understanding of conversion is that other Jews will consider you no different to others who are ethnically Jewish if you convert, as it is a process and seen as sort of an adoption in to the tribe, or coming home to your fellow people. So unless he has a fetish for stereotypical 'Jewish' features... it does feel like he should have just gone to talk to a rabbi for a reality check and maybe a how to for converting haha
as someone who worked at a call center (though it was in america) I can confirm that its realistic for both everyone calling and the majority of people working there to be horrible, so I mean at least that sounds accurate if nothing else
The guy in the last book... "poor me, women just reject men and don't know how they hurt us" Also him: dating a whole other girl who he does not break up with when he gets back together with his ex
oh god Chetan Bhagat. You've just unlocked a core memory I had locked away in my brain somewhere. As an young Indian growing up in a time where there was basically no Indian fiction, Chetan Bhagat was suddenly everywhere. I read his first book, and then never another one.
Pro tip for when you can't get an audio book: when i can't get a book in audio i buy an ebook copy and convert it into pdf then open it with read aloud (text to speech browser extension) the free voices are tolerable and you can edit the speed and i use it so much i bought a voice ai that I liked better.
You’re a real one for putting yourself through that! I thought Nothing but Blackened Teeth was soooooo stupid. I DNFd with like two pages left! 😂😂😂 ☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️
I think sometimes, when an author has some thing that’s insanely popular, especially in the main stream, their other books can get unfairly judged against that popular piece of work, and will end up with a lower ratings than it should.
What a fun and painful concept lol. Wicked is one of my favorite books and the whole series is immensely compelling. I read Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister a long time ago and while I don’t remember it well, I remember liking it. Then I DNF’d Mirror Mirror because I didn’t understand the writing at all. So whatever that info about Maguire’s books is worth to you. 🤓☎️
I feel like Cassandra Khaw knows how to write a scary scene with nice prose (These Deathless Bones is like 20 pages and free to read online), but her ability to creat a strong, longer narrative when given the chance really bummed me because I loved TDB! 😭
cassandra khaw uses they/them, just so you know. since sara didn't seem to either kdcjnsdkfj (no shade to either of y'all, i understanding defaulting to gendered pronouns! i hope this encourages you to double check in the future though)
My teenage *not like other girls* flex was that I hated Chetan Bhagat and never read his works, while growing up in 2000s India. And you know what? I'm proud of that decision.
I bought nothing but blackened teeth :) full price :) I rated it 2(?) stars :)) But I think people are so upset by this book bc the cost of being so let down lmao. It would have been so much better if we had more room to stretch in the story. I will say the description of one character’s intestines falling out like hot links still haunts me
Oh noooo 💀 I wish they wouldn't charge the same price for novellas as full length novels! I'm still confused about why the author didn't write a full length book. There was so much context missing and the story didn't build properly
Tried so hard to focus but I was distracted by your eye makeup and that hair pin!! SO gorgeous!! But seriously; finding this channel has been a hidden gem when i'm working on a sewing or crochet project!
The reason "the finkler question" thing feels antiseptic is cause it is its just replaced the "jewish" in "the jewish question" which is likea horrific conspiracy theory/thing that actually happened
I always love hearing you review the books cause of your sense of humour ! You looked especially gorgeous in the update for Nothing but blackened teeth !! ❤
Gregory Maguire's prose is so dark and beautiful and I would probably read his version of the phone book (though I doubt such a thing would be at all useful for making a phone call).
God my friend and I both read Nothing But Blackened Teeth & hated it. In my review I said I couldn’t believe a horror could be so incredibly boring. It was so vapid it was impressive. I love your videos!
This is such a fun throwback! I found your channel through your og Lowest Rated Books on GRs (and I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to watch more, so then I found Books & Lala because she did a similar video). And you should totally do a highest rated books and compare. Hopefully they're actually better! ☎️
As soon as you said that the first book was written by the guy who wrote Wicked, I went, "Oh no." I loathe that book with the fires of a thousand suns. The musical is great. Nothing at all like the book.
I really would recommend Wicked if you liked Maguire's writing - I remember loving it, and ended up picking up his book After Alice that I have now attempted to read 2 times but I can't get past the first couple chapters because it is boring. Going to give it a third and final shot this month. Hoping I was just in reading slumps the two times I tried to read it before.... So far for me it seems that Maguire was definitely a one hit wonder.
For me the best way to read Nothing But Blackened Teeth is via audiobook because it made it easier to parse through her prose and have it still made it spooky. My main reason for rating it just 3 stars was just the abrupt ending and the characters needing just a lil bit of sympathetic attributes to balance them out. I also had read one of Khaw's other books and truly could not see the forest from the trees because her purple prose plus sci-fi was unreadable, so comparing Blackened Teeth to that was so much better
Gotta love a controversial award winner! I gave nothing but blackened teeth 3 stars. I really don’t think it’s as bad as it’s made to seem though personally.
☎️ oof, these sounded like torture ... except the blackened teeth book. I was genuinely hoping people were just pearl clutching... but that was wishful thinking for sure
☎I honestly have no idea how you can push yourself through terrible books 🤣 I've tried to read books I don't enjoy and it's just put me in total reading slumps.
I only just found your channel tonight, but I'm so glad I did. This is gonna sound ridiculous but growing up I was CONSTANTLY reading, I loved it, even if the books were bad. For whatever reason now, I have an extremely hard time with reading. Its kind of an attention span thing, but also I have the problem of reading entire chapters and realizing I was only paying attention to my own thoughts the entire time. So I get to live vicariously through you and its a really good escape
great timing because i just uploaded a video 2 minutes ago 😂 have you ever tried audiobooks? i find listening to audiobooks while driving or doing chores or playing a game on my phone helps me pay attention!
@sarawithoutanH how kismet lol and I have! sometimes they'll work but I have a tendency to think over the top of them too and end up having to listen to the same chapter like 6 times
For a better version of one night at the call center I would recommend Finna. It’s a day working at an ikea-like store with your ex buuuutttt the worm holes open up and you have to travel through them to find lost customers hahaha
☎lol I heard the part with the phone call from god in that last book and thought "Where the hell did that come from?" Glad we can agree on that randomness
When you said the book was giving grad school I got flashbacks to my English masters program. I swear my classmates would be trying so hard to sound impressive that they’d be making up words
I could not have summed up my thoughts better about Nothing but blackened teeth. God the premise is so cool but just about everything was disappointing. And yes I did read it physically and yes I did have to reread large paragraphs cause of the writing style.
I had that first book! Never even read it, just thought the cover was cool. I had it for years so I don’t remember where it came from. I never even knew what it was about but recently I got rid of it since I hadn’t touched it in 3+ years. I also had one about step sisters I think??
Nothing but blackened teeth was NOT good. I don't know how people who don't know much about Japanese myths were able to even finish reading it. Luckily I knew the Japanese terms the author put in (yet didn't bother to explain at all to people who don't know the words or meanings) so I knew what was happening but...she wasn't good. And it had so much potential to be REALLY messed up (especially at the end!) but instead it missed the mark.
I'm super frustrated by the Call Center hourly/time stamp chapter concept because I feel like the "every chapter is an hour" concept is actually really clever and can/has be(en) used VERY WELL. I think of Until Dawn where every chapter is approximately an hour, I think of a lot of horror/thriller stories where the slow passage of time makes it that much scarier or thrilling. If something had actually HAPPENED in that book, maybe it'd be different, but as it is, it really doesn't work for contemp fiction following shit characters while they do nothing of narrative value.
See Nothing but Blackened Teeth I really enjoyed, but I feel it's probably because I was excited to get the arc for it. I would 100% reccommend their new book thought! It seems like they're improving on telling a cohesive story with the same feeling that they were able to convey in NBBt. I've even had friends who read NBBT and didn't like it but really enjoyed their new book!
my main issue with nothing but blackened teeth was the rep, like if you give them white names you couldnt tell if they were asian or whatever ethnicity they were at all. like i was surprised that one of them had an arab name and i was like so confused esp cuz im half asian and half arab
Yeah that's true! I couldn't tell the background of some of them. I think the main character mentioned growing in Malaysia at one point but it got really lost in the prose and it was confusing to tell the characters apart
For garbaugust I’m going to read Lair af the white worm by Bram Stoker. It gets an 2.79 star rating and Lady Godiva that one gets a two star rating and on top of that I’m going to torture myself by also watching the film of lair of the white worm. Lol
I absolutely loved Wicked when I read it like 10 years ago, but the reviews are sooo bad that I'm scared to reread it. Like maybe I was just an idiot when I read it? ☎️
I am so glad to see someone who also didn't like the book, I almost thought I was the only one. I couldn't even finish it. The part where the tin man, lion, and scarecrow gossip and call the wicked witch a "transvesite" and the part where a puppet version of charcters had a d*ck on his back fucing a mom and daughter made me side eye it so bad I had to put it down.
☎️ I’ve read Nothing But Blackened Teeth and I completely share your thoughts! I don’t think it deserves to be on this list, there are much worse books 😂
I dropped Beauty is a Wound, a finalist of the International Man Booker Prize maybe 50 pages in. The concept of the book is super fascinating, but good god. Those first 50 pages are just sentence after sentence of humour in the style of a 13 year old boy. I kept trying to look past the awful humour to get to the interesting concept and I just couldn't do it.
He was too busy fetishizing the culture or something. He dates a Jewish woman near the end and he is so obsessed with the fact she's Jewish and doesn't care about the religion itself. It was bizarre
Nothing but blackened teeth was the worst book I have ever read. It's so short but took me 2 days to read because I don't like dnf-ing books. But I didn't pick anything else up for like four months because it completely ruined reading for me for awhile. The writing was so stilted and unnecessarily descriptive. The characters weren't just unlikable (It was hard to tell who you were supposed to actually like), but so completely uninteresting that I didn't care one way or the other what happened to them. (I typed all of that out before you reviewed it. So we mostly agree lol)
I've not read wicked but I was a big musical fan back in the day especially wicked so like I know vaguely about it lol and afaik the musical is like a lotttt tamer than the book which is more intense and depressing and like harsher on the characters. the musical is like disneyfied if you will. not saying that makes the book bad or anything I mean idk but it just has a different tone so it might not be what you expect ☎️
I'm commenting on an old ass video just to say I have read Mirror Mirror, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (I think that is what it was called..), and Lost by Gregory Maguire (sp?). With all due respect (becase writing a novel is a challenge no matter what), I have NO clue how he is such a celebrated writer. Mirror Mirror was the first (out of four books) that I have DNF'ed in my entire life. I gave Lost a shot and it was the second... My grandma thought the books were 'so modern' so she bought them for me. (But thanks, Grandma, for inspiring a love of reading... I guess I just enjoyed the Stephen King/James Patterson novels more.) Long story short: it does not surprise me that he has one of the lowest rated books on GR. That being said, it pisses me off he probably gets fat bags from WICKED. I have seen the play (never read the book, never will), and I dont get the hype.
9:55 ok but why does that sound like this one high school teacher I had 😭. She was like obsessed with the holocaust and one time out of fucking nowhere told me, a jewish person, she believes she was jewish in a past life
As an Indian Chetan Bhagat “one night at the call centre” I hate his books too, except for one 2 states. Also, rest of India is also annoyed by his books. 😂😂😂
Not a lot happening for the first chunk is what tends to happen with books that are as unnecessarily long as Maguire's. His prose is good but he is clearly mired in the European literature tradition, despite being a Yank, and a little too fond of his own "interesting voice."
These books sound like the worst. Probably that Finkleman Question book would be better for someone who may be a little older and understand an older persons perspective. Sometimes for a younger person like yourself, it is hard to imagine being forty or fifty and certainly not elderly. And then the Jewish question in the book may not be within your experiences, If you are not around that culture, it can be foreign. I'm not around them either. I appreciate you reading these rotten eggs and telling us about them. I can see how it can be really popular. We like to see people suffer and talk about it. LOL.
I mean I am over 30 so I don't mind reading about older people. These particular people just were not very enjoyable - serial cheaters and misogynistic. I quite enjoy stories of other perspectives but this one was really just poorly written.
i just really do not trust Goodreads unfortunately. some of the worst books I've ever read will have 4+ star ratings and it will instill me with confidence going into the book. it's just not a great system unfortunately
Lol, if you are of British descent and your family had some money back in the day, you're the great♾️-grandchild of a guy that could have been Scrooge...
Absolute click bait, waste of time. "Worst books on goodreads", ha? Really? Not even close! You picked a quartet of middle of the road, 'average' rated books, that all have huge numbers of 3,4, and 5 star ratings. There are literally hundreds of books on goodreads with average 1-1.3 star ratings. If you're disingenuous in your videos bow can anyone trust your reviews?
I've never once read a book and thought "you know what would make this better? if the main character was an incel"
😂😂😂😂
You know, that might actually make for at least a semi interesting character and arc. Like watching this incel see the light and growing as a person could be quite nice I think.
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Fun fact: the actor Carey Elwes (he played Westley in the Princess Bride) really is a descendent of the real life guy who inspired the character of Scrooge, John Elwes. John Elwes was so miserly that he would eat rotting meat rather than buy fresh food.
That sounds like a disorder. Maybe he grew up extremely poor?
If I did that I’d just die 😅
Did everyone in town sing about how much they hated him whenever he walked by?
Does the main character of "The Finkler Question" not realize that he can just...convert to Judaism if he wants to be Jewish so badly? Like, we take converts. On second thought, nevermind, I don't think we want him specifically.
Howard Jacobson IS Jewish but this still book still feels wrong.
The fact that he is Jewish makes it worse in a way lmao. Imagine a Christian author writing about a non-Christian character having an obsession with Christianity hahaha.
Also, good point, why doesn't he just convert to Judaism 😭
Doesn't the maint character want to be ethnically Jewish though?
I think it's about ethnicity not religion
my understanding of conversion is that other Jews will consider you no different to others who are ethnically Jewish if you convert, as it is a process and seen as sort of an adoption in to the tribe, or coming home to your fellow people. So unless he has a fetish for stereotypical 'Jewish' features... it does feel like he should have just gone to talk to a rabbi for a reality check and maybe a how to for converting haha
I had to read one night at the call Center for a university class - honestly a nightmare
Why would they teach that in school??? I feel like it had nothing worth value to learn about
@@sarawithoutanH Probably because the professor really liked it and wanted to use it as an excuse to re-read it. It sounds like a really lame book.
as someone who worked at a call center (though it was in america) I can confirm that its realistic for both everyone calling and the majority of people working there to be horrible, so I mean at least that sounds accurate if nothing else
I lasted three months at a call center in America. The worst.
The guy in the last book... "poor me, women just reject men and don't know how they hurt us"
Also him: dating a whole other girl who he does not break up with when he gets back together with his ex
oh god Chetan Bhagat. You've just unlocked a core memory I had locked away in my brain somewhere. As an young Indian growing up in a time where there was basically no Indian fiction, Chetan Bhagat was suddenly everywhere. I read his first book, and then never another one.
I can’t stop staring at the gold butterfly - so freaking gorgeous, looks great on you
Aw thank you!! I got it on amazon in a set of clips!!
☎️ I’d love to see you be kind to yourself and do the opposite by reading the highest rated books on Goodreads!
Yes that's a great idea!!
You really put yourself through purgatory for this video. We commend you 🙌
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger 🫡
Pro tip for when you can't get an audio book: when i can't get a book in audio i buy an ebook copy and convert it into pdf then open it with read aloud (text to speech browser extension) the free voices are tolerable and you can edit the speed and i use it so much i bought a voice ai that I liked better.
That’s so clever!
You’re a real one for putting yourself through that! I thought Nothing but Blackened Teeth was soooooo stupid. I DNFd with like two pages left! 😂😂😂 ☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️
That's how you know it's really bad! When you can't even finish the last chapter or pages 😂
this book made no sense and the language was so flowery i had no idea what was happening at any given point
I think sometimes, when an author has some thing that’s insanely popular, especially in the main stream, their other books can get unfairly judged against that popular piece of work, and will end up with a lower ratings than it should.
What a fun and painful concept lol. Wicked is one of my favorite books and the whole series is immensely compelling. I read Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister a long time ago and while I don’t remember it well, I remember liking it. Then I DNF’d Mirror Mirror because I didn’t understand the writing at all. So whatever that info about Maguire’s books is worth to you. 🤓☎️
I definitely want to try reading Wicked! It would be interesting to see what the musical is based on.
I liked Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister better than Wicked.
@@sarawithoutanH I DNF'd Wicked after a chapter or two, but Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister I've re-read countless times
I loved Wicked but I don’t think I made it through Confessions
I feel like Cassandra Khaw knows how to write a scary scene with nice prose (These Deathless Bones is like 20 pages and free to read online), but her ability to creat a strong, longer narrative when given the chance really bummed me because I loved TDB! 😭
cassandra khaw uses they/them, just so you know. since sara didn't seem to either kdcjnsdkfj (no shade to either of y'all, i understanding defaulting to gendered pronouns! i hope this encourages you to double check in the future though)
My teenage *not like other girls* flex was that I hated Chetan Bhagat and never read his works, while growing up in 2000s India. And you know what? I'm proud of that decision.
Honestly you made the right choice
I bought nothing but blackened teeth :) full price :) I rated it 2(?) stars :))
But I think people are so upset by this book bc the cost of being so let down lmao. It would have been so much better if we had more room to stretch in the story. I will say the description of one character’s intestines falling out like hot links still haunts me
Oh noooo 💀 I wish they wouldn't charge the same price for novellas as full length novels! I'm still confused about why the author didn't write a full length book. There was so much context missing and the story didn't build properly
I love it when Kirsten Dunst talks about books. 😌
Tried so hard to focus but I was distracted by your eye makeup and that hair pin!! SO gorgeous!! But seriously; finding this channel has been a hidden gem when i'm working on a sewing or crochet project!
The reason "the finkler question" thing feels antiseptic is cause it is its just replaced the "jewish" in "the jewish question" which is likea horrific conspiracy theory/thing that actually happened
I always love hearing you review the books cause of your sense of humour ! You looked especially gorgeous in the update for Nothing but blackened teeth !! ❤
Aw thank you!! 💗
Omg girl I feel bad for your pain but this was definitely entertaining! Thank you 😂❤
Gregory Maguire's prose is so dark and beautiful and I would probably read his version of the phone book (though I doubt such a thing would be at all useful for making a phone call).
God my friend and I both read Nothing But Blackened Teeth & hated it. In my review I said I couldn’t believe a horror could be so incredibly boring. It was so vapid it was impressive.
I love your videos!
There is a book on Goodreads: The Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem with an average of 1.27, which has 88% 1 star ratings (946 ratings 396 reviews)
I read Maguire’s tooth fairy book when I was in high school I weirdly loved it, like I don’t think it was good but it felt special at the time 😂
This is such a fun throwback! I found your channel through your og Lowest Rated Books on GRs (and I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to watch more, so then I found Books & Lala because she did a similar video). And you should totally do a highest rated books and compare. Hopefully they're actually better! ☎️
Amazing that I could be a pipeline to finding Kayla and not the other way around 😂
As soon as you said that the first book was written by the guy who wrote Wicked, I went, "Oh no." I loathe that book with the fires of a thousand suns. The musical is great. Nothing at all like the book.
I really would recommend Wicked if you liked Maguire's writing - I remember loving it, and ended up picking up his book After Alice that I have now attempted to read 2 times but I can't get past the first couple chapters because it is boring. Going to give it a third and final shot this month. Hoping I was just in reading slumps the two times I tried to read it before.... So far for me it seems that Maguire was definitely a one hit wonder.
I LOVE the other video and I watch it to this day!!!!! I literally screamed when I saw you posted this on Instagram!!!!!
I love that for us!!!! 💗
The first part of this is my favorite video you’ve ever made I am so excited for this
Sorry you went through this but personally for me I love this video
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I did it especially for you bestie!!
Oh bestie 😂 I'm so sorry you went through this, but I have to admit, the video was very entertaining 📞
Agreed!
Glad you enjoyed!!! Anything for my besties 😌💗
For me the best way to read Nothing But Blackened Teeth is via audiobook because it made it easier to parse through her prose and have it still made it spooky. My main reason for rating it just 3 stars was just the abrupt ending and the characters needing just a lil bit of sympathetic attributes to balance them out. I also had read one of Khaw's other books and truly could not see the forest from the trees because her purple prose plus sci-fi was unreadable, so comparing Blackened Teeth to that was so much better
Ahh that's such a bummer to hear about her other book! She really needs to reel in the flowery writing 😅
Gotta love a controversial award winner!
I gave nothing but blackened teeth 3 stars. I really don’t think it’s as bad as it’s made to seem though personally.
☎️ oof, these sounded like torture ... except the blackened teeth book. I was genuinely hoping people were just pearl clutching... but that was wishful thinking for sure
Yes me toooo. I wanted it to be good so bad
"i thought the random conversation w/ god was weird" 😂
It really was 😂
The last one made me laugh lol I was thinking about reading that one a few years ago but luckily the ratings kept me away.
Best to stay away 😂
I know this is a non sequitur but I love all your flower print dresses they are so cute and too cute on you, slay queen.
I'm impressed you get through these 👏🏻 I'd be in a reading slump 😅
The drive to entertain viewers is strong 😂
I do love the Wicked book. And my mom likes to brag about Gregory McGuire going to her church 😂
☎I honestly have no idea how you can push yourself through terrible books 🤣 I've tried to read books I don't enjoy and it's just put me in total reading slumps.
Lolol I'm good at doing it when I know it's for content. I know my pain will bring other people joy 😂
I only just found your channel tonight, but I'm so glad I did. This is gonna sound ridiculous but growing up I was CONSTANTLY reading, I loved it, even if the books were bad. For whatever reason now, I have an extremely hard time with reading. Its kind of an attention span thing, but also I have the problem of reading entire chapters and realizing I was only paying attention to my own thoughts the entire time. So I get to live vicariously through you and its a really good escape
great timing because i just uploaded a video 2 minutes ago 😂 have you ever tried audiobooks? i find listening to audiobooks while driving or doing chores or playing a game on my phone helps me pay attention!
@sarawithoutanH how kismet lol
and I have! sometimes they'll work but I have a tendency to think over the top of them too and end up having to listen to the same chapter like 6 times
For a better version of one night at the call center I would recommend Finna. It’s a day working at an ikea-like store with your ex buuuutttt the worm holes open up and you have to travel through them to find lost customers hahaha
☎lol I heard the part with the phone call from god in that last book and thought "Where the hell did that come from?" Glad we can agree on that randomness
When you said the book was giving grad school I got flashbacks to my English masters program. I swear my classmates would be trying so hard to sound impressive that they’d be making up words
"women reject men like it's their birthright" 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could not have summed up my thoughts better about Nothing but blackened teeth. God the premise is so cool but just about everything was disappointing. And yes I did read it physically and yes I did have to reread large paragraphs cause of the writing style.
The Finkler Question sounds fascinatingly bad........ anyway thank you for the sacrifice these are always great
Shocked it one any awards!!!!! Or was even published tbh
@@sarawithoutanH I think your theories are the only possible explanations
I've always thought about reading Wicked, but just never have. Hopefully you will give it a try since you liked his writing.☎️
I had that first book! Never even read it, just thought the cover was cool. I had it for years so I don’t remember where it came from. I never even knew what it was about but recently I got rid of it since I hadn’t touched it in 3+ years. I also had one about step sisters I think??
Nothing but blackened teeth was NOT good. I don't know how people who don't know much about Japanese myths were able to even finish reading it. Luckily I knew the Japanese terms the author put in (yet didn't bother to explain at all to people who don't know the words or meanings) so I knew what was happening but...she wasn't good. And it had so much potential to be REALLY messed up (especially at the end!) but instead it missed the mark.
It was too short for what she wanted to accomplish 💔
I'm really loving the ribbons. They are so cute.
Disclaimer -I'm a woman just trying to give a compliment
I'm super frustrated by the Call Center hourly/time stamp chapter concept because I feel like the "every chapter is an hour" concept is actually really clever and can/has be(en) used VERY WELL. I think of Until Dawn where every chapter is approximately an hour, I think of a lot of horror/thriller stories where the slow passage of time makes it that much scarier or thrilling. If something had actually HAPPENED in that book, maybe it'd be different, but as it is, it really doesn't work for contemp fiction following shit characters while they do nothing of narrative value.
See Nothing but Blackened Teeth I really enjoyed, but I feel it's probably because I was excited to get the arc for it. I would 100% reccommend their new book thought! It seems like they're improving on telling a cohesive story with the same feeling that they were able to convey in NBBt. I've even had friends who read NBBT and didn't like it but really enjoyed their new book!
my main issue with nothing but blackened teeth was the rep, like if you give them white names you couldnt tell if they were asian or whatever ethnicity they were at all. like i was surprised that one of them had an arab name and i was like so confused esp cuz im half asian and half arab
Yeah that's true! I couldn't tell the background of some of them. I think the main character mentioned growing in Malaysia at one point but it got really lost in the prose and it was confusing to tell the characters apart
@@sarawithoutanH yess i couldnt tell who's who most of the time either
I love watching these tortuous videos from you 😂
I do it all for the entertainment of others 😂
I found you from that original video!!! Edit: lol so I’m not the only one?! 😂
That video got me a huge boost of subscribers back in the day! So glad to still have you here 💗 thanks for being a long time subscriber, bestie 😌🫶🏻
For garbaugust I’m going to read Lair af the white worm by Bram Stoker. It gets an 2.79 star rating and Lady Godiva that one gets a two star rating and on top of that I’m going to torture myself by also watching the film of lair of the white worm. Lol
I absolutely loved Wicked when I read it like 10 years ago, but the reviews are sooo bad that I'm scared to reread it. Like maybe I was just an idiot when I read it? ☎️
Lmao I feel that way about books I loved in the past
2:16 ok but the musical wicked is nothing like the book. The musical is infinitly better. The book is overly sexual in honestly gross ways.
I am so glad to see someone who also didn't like the book, I almost thought I was the only one. I couldn't even finish it. The part where the tin man, lion, and scarecrow gossip and call the wicked witch a "transvesite" and the part where a puppet version of charcters had a d*ck on his back fucing a mom and daughter made me side eye it so bad I had to put it down.
Loved this video 😂
☎️ I’ve read Nothing But Blackened Teeth and I completely share your thoughts! I don’t think it deserves to be on this list, there are much worse books 😂
Yeah, nothing but blackened teeth realllyyy missed the mark 📞
She's gotta chill with the purple prose 💀
Milkman by Anna Burns also won the Man Booker. It was the worst book I've read in my entire life. Completely unreadable, unintelligible garbage.
Not feeling very confident about these manbooker judges 😂
I dropped Beauty is a Wound, a finalist of the International Man Booker Prize maybe 50 pages in. The concept of the book is super fascinating, but good god. Those first 50 pages are just sentence after sentence of humour in the style of a 13 year old boy. I kept trying to look past the awful humour to get to the interesting concept and I just couldn't do it.
Why didnt the guy from the finkler question just, oh i dont know, convert to Judaism.
He was too busy fetishizing the culture or something. He dates a Jewish woman near the end and he is so obsessed with the fact she's Jewish and doesn't care about the religion itself. It was bizarre
@@sarawithoutanH hahaaaaa, yiikes!!
Nothing but blackened teeth was the worst book I have ever read. It's so short but took me 2 days to read because I don't like dnf-ing books. But I didn't pick anything else up for like four months because it completely ruined reading for me for awhile.
The writing was so stilted and unnecessarily descriptive. The characters weren't just unlikable (It was hard to tell who you were supposed to actually like), but so completely uninteresting that I didn't care one way or the other what happened to them.
(I typed all of that out before you reviewed it. So we mostly agree lol)
You may’ve heard this before, but you remind me so much of Kirstin Dunst!
I've not read wicked but I was a big musical fan back in the day especially wicked so like I know vaguely about it lol and afaik the musical is like a lotttt tamer than the book which is more intense and depressing and like harsher on the characters. the musical is like disneyfied if you will. not saying that makes the book bad or anything I mean idk but it just has a different tone so it might not be what you expect ☎️
Interesting!!! I've never seen the musical and only heard songs
I'm commenting on an old ass video just to say I have read Mirror Mirror, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (I think that is what it was called..), and Lost by Gregory Maguire (sp?).
With all due respect (becase writing a novel is a challenge no matter what), I have NO clue how he is such a celebrated writer. Mirror Mirror was the first (out of four books) that I have DNF'ed in my entire life. I gave Lost a shot and it was the second...
My grandma thought the books were 'so modern' so she bought them for me. (But thanks, Grandma, for inspiring a love of reading... I guess I just enjoyed the Stephen King/James Patterson novels more.)
Long story short: it does not surprise me that he has one of the lowest rated books on GR. That being said, it pisses me off he probably gets fat bags from WICKED. I have seen the play (never read the book, never will), and I dont get the hype.
Thank you for your service ☎
Nothing But Teeth was... short, at least.
Blackened Teeth*
Hahah yes
9:55 ok but why does that sound like this one high school teacher I had 😭. She was like obsessed with the holocaust and one time out of fucking nowhere told me, a jewish person, she believes she was jewish in a past life
As an Indian Chetan Bhagat “one night at the call centre” I hate his books too, except for one 2 states. Also, rest of India is also annoyed by his books. 😂😂😂
Not a lot happening for the first chunk is what tends to happen with books that are as unnecessarily long as Maguire's. His prose is good but he is clearly mired in the European literature tradition, despite being a Yank, and a little too fond of his own "interesting voice."
my jaw dropped open
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I usually don’t bother with a book if the average ratings is lower than 3.5 stars.
Probably a smart way to do things 😂
Wait..I think you convinced me to read these. However bad they may be 😂
Lmao opposite effect of what was intended
Honestly I do not trust the Man Booker Prize. It’s just pretentious. The only winning books I’ve ever read were incredibly boring.
17:09 as an indian my bones just froze
not chetan bhagat 😭 (i do not like him)
he seems to be infamous among indians!!! 😂 also if you have recs for better indian authors, i'd love to know!
Nothing but blackened teeth was just so boring to me🥲
Yeahhhh
Well, the title is accurate.
Am I the only one who hated Wicked? Couldn't even finish it, it was so bad
These books sound like the worst. Probably that Finkleman Question book would be better for someone who may be a little older and understand an older persons perspective. Sometimes for a younger person like yourself, it is hard to imagine being forty or fifty and certainly not elderly. And then the Jewish question in the book may not be within your experiences, If you are not around that culture, it can be foreign. I'm not around them either. I appreciate you reading these rotten eggs and telling us about them. I can see how it can be really popular. We like to see people suffer and talk about it. LOL.
I mean I am over 30 so I don't mind reading about older people. These particular people just were not very enjoyable - serial cheaters and misogynistic. I quite enjoy stories of other perspectives but this one was really just poorly written.
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i just really do not trust Goodreads unfortunately. some of the worst books I've ever read will have 4+ star ratings and it will instill me with confidence going into the book. it's just not a great system unfortunately
Medulla oblagata is just your brain stem keep it simple Cassandra 😂
LOL right
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Kirsten Dunst look alike
I love that old video and I loved this one too. Sorry you made yourself suffer gor our entertainment!! 📞
i do it for my besties 💗
Lol, if you are of British descent and your family had some money back in the day, you're the great♾️-grandchild of a guy that could have been Scrooge...
IDK, I feel like if you really loved us, you'd do this video every year. 😂
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You look like kirsten dunst
comedy fic that has an incel mpregged
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What are you doing, step-cousin?🥵
98th like! 📞📞📞
First in my heart 💜
Absolute click bait, waste of time. "Worst books on goodreads", ha? Really? Not even close!
You picked a quartet of middle of the road, 'average' rated books, that all have huge numbers of 3,4, and 5 star ratings.
There are literally hundreds of books on goodreads with average 1-1.3 star ratings.
If you're disingenuous in your videos bow can anyone trust your reviews?
Have you heard of statistical significance?
@sarawithoutanH doesn't apply. As all ratings are user given, there is no room for 'chance' or 'luck', ergo, no level of uncertainty.
Try again.
Are you serious? This is a joke, right?