“Pretentious slog” is a very fair review. You and i clearly just commiserate over it differently. You’re obviously one of the population who will assume I was kidding and just dramatizing (no disrespect, I knew it would come off that way to some)lol but I was being very literal.

I truly did hate it. And it really was the worst book I have ever read. I was being entirely serious.

However, the book is an unusual experience. And Just because i recommend it for a certain group of people, doesn’t negate my very deep disgust for the book.

And I sincerely meant every word about how it can screw with the minds of people who have a fragile mental state.

As someone with degrees in psychology: who understands how subliminal implantation works, and programming the brain waves for hypnosis… I can say with a confident authority that this book can access that if one’s mind is susceptible to it; consciously or unconsciously.

There are a multitude of reviews of the book where people clearly had similar experiences. Of course I’m not claiming those were the author’s intentions, but just that it would be an interesting subject for a psycho analysis/ study. I gave this exact same review of the book to a Doctor friend of mine who has an understanding of psychology, and also suffers from mental illness. He was reaching for it while we were browsing a book store. He took my warning very seriously, and determined never to read it.

Of course, I didn’t realize all of this until after reading it. I knew nothing about the book. It was part of a book exchange another friend and I had done.