People said "This book is a horror book so it means it's trying to scare me, it did scare me cause shock value, therefore this book is good," and knowing that brings me pain
Agreed I don’t think a book’s value is determined by how morbid your imagination can be lol His books just feel like he decided to weaponise his intrusive thoughts I think a quality book is thought provoking and connects different ideas together
No it just means that the book is shocking, this is equivalent to saying that running over an animal and looking at the mangled corpse is a good horror experience because it's revolting.
i mean at least urbanspook has good art (and sountracks) and that's his main focus so u can kinda justify the wack story, but with a book? yea a couple of illustrations are not gonna cut it
@@cawsomeaolin and again his series is like a learning curve, the later episodes still suffer from that terrible exposition, but the animation bit and the phone call were pretty sick ngl
Pretty sure the only way Aron writes books is 10% his fetishes 10% misogyny 10% whatever group he’s decided to hate when he woke up that day 70% a checklist of gross stuff he’s got on a wall somewhere. Dead child tick, SA tick, poop tick etc…. Like when the bone/mirror in vag, guy just looks around his room/Google’s “weird sharp stuff” and picks something. That’s as far as his imagination goes 🙄 Really enjoyed your review, I can’t bring myself to read these books cause the exploitation pisses me off when it’s handled so badly, but I’m also morbidly curious. Make sure you read some lighter books sometimes tho it’s gotta be draining to read these all the time, take care of yourself ❤
apparently in one of his other books called "yellow" the male character in the book uses a tire iron to sa a woman so you're defo right. he takes a look around, finds something long and yells "stick it in a vag"
@morphomorphs I feel like as an extreme horror author, one of the things he thinks that every book needs to be EXTREME is rape. I get a lot of these books that have that in it, but horror isn't just about rape. However, I am new to the genre, so maybe it is a big part of it
@@byrongardner9299 it seems to be quite common. almost every extreme horror book i search about has some sort of sa in it which is not only upsetting but also infuriating because it's so lazy
@@byrongardner9299 Extreme horror and splatterpunk tend to go hand in hand but there is a big difference between the two. Extreme horror tends to have a lot of rape and sexual assault I won't call it lazy since the whole point of extreme horror is to make the reader feel uneasy and rape and sexual assault are an easy way to do it BUT on the other hand it would not kill these authors to try and think outside the box a bit more.
Honestly I just want to talk to him. Like I want to ask him “why?”, and “For what reason?”. Maybe add in a little “Could you not?”. Then maybe call the police idk.
They must have a strong stomach then, because after all gore that I've read and watched, willingly or not, this book is the first thing that makes me think that I'm physically unable to just SIT THROUGH the video. I really want to vomit just at 15:17 ±
@@serxinnedits8107 with a books like that it wouldn't be that surprising, would it? He has a wide, you know? I think he mentioned it in Playground's notes, but Good Lord, I pray and hope he won't have children. Even if he won't do a single thing to them, it still would be disgusting to discover what your dad has written
That ending. I would say it's like a homophobic tween trying to be edgy. How could anyone ever say this is a good book with an ending like that? Also, the main character would die without question from the unborn child death scene. There is no way possible someone could live through that and it is so overly ridiculous and so overly extreme it almost feels like it is supposed to be comical. What was the writer even thinking?
All I'm gonna say is that the reason all his writing comes off like an edgy tween is probably because the first story he wrote was when he was like 12 and his crush rejected him, so he wrote a story about him killing her then impregnating her corpse and a bunch of other edgy shit, and his writing just didn't evolve or mature that much.
Why are you riding so hard for this guy. The book just isn’t good. Things can be objectively bad, even if you enjoy them. Just cause splatterpunk is considered a genre doesn’t make it immune to criticism. This isn’t a free speech argument, no one is saying people can’t write things like this or that it shouldn’t be allowed, but we don’t have to lie to ourselves and say this book is any good.
God it's almost criminal how good the one sentence summary of these are because they sound great! "Traumatized woman with crippling OCD and PTSD walks in to the lair of what she fears most" "Struggling families are lured with money to test a high tech playground by a suspicious and affluent crone" It makes me want to rewrite both of these so badly, with more dynamic characters and less "gore for the sake of gore"
Idk how to explain this but This Was Very Written By A Man I think whats frustrating is we could've gotten some cool psycho analysis and parallels between the slob and how she used to live. How he almost represents that early childhood trauma. It could've been great goddammit >:((
Absolutely, especially with how she is traumatized by cleaning her sisters carpet and him forcing her to clean his. I physically cringed when she willingly followed that dude, a STRANGER into his attic.
37:50 This! So much this! In theory I like the *idea* of the "rape and revenge" narrative because I imagine that survivors could find it very cathartic, but making the rape portions so graphic just makes it impossible to ever really get to the actually cathartic portions.
Exactly! Focus more on her plan to fight back and escape. Also, have her get inspired by music choices that are less... I dunno... "cheesy" (Michael Jackson made great music but it's so cheesy and cliche to have him and New Kids on the Block be the bands of choice).
(Sorry for making an essay however) I agree with this! I think "rape and revenge" *can* work, as long as the gruesome bits aren't too heavily detailed but can still sort of linger in your mind. For example, there's this book that's also a movie (I only watched the movie btw so I don't know what's actually in the book) called Room, which is told from the perspective of the victim's child. (Spoilers ahead) Basically, the story is this woman gets kidnapped by this guy, and he uses her as a sex slave for several years, and at some point, the victim gives birth to our little protagonist. The victim then swears that she will never let her abuser see the child, so whenever he comes over to the shed, the victim hides her child in a closet to keep them separated. Now because we're in the child's perspective and we're inside the closet, some noises are heard that imply rape but it's never IN YOUR FACE or anything. But it still lingers in your mind because just the idea of rape alone is very haunting, so there's no need for airhorns or megaphones screaming **"OHHHHHHH FELLLAAAAS GUESS WHAT JUUUUUST HAPPENED??? IM NOW GONNA TELL YOU IN EXCRUCIATING DETAAAAAIL ABOUT WHATS GOING ON BECAUSE SHOCK VALUE = PROFIT!!!!!!!!"** But tbh no! There's none of that in Room! Oh, and as for the "revenge" part, it's less revenge and more escape. I'm not gonna spoil that part because I think it's a worthy watch or read because I think it takes a VERY different approach to the horrors of SA than anything Aron has ever written! Sorry for making you read all of that! Here, have a pepsi
@@emytoonz That sounds awesome! I've heard of the movie. Don't worry about the length. As long as there are breaks between paragraphs, it's fine. It's the non-stop walls-of-text that are unreadable.
I hate hate HATE the way people with bipolar disorder are depicted and treated. I’m someone who is borderpolar (term used for people comorbid with BPD and bipolar disorder) and to only exist in a story to be a horrible abusive monster and then to end their life to suicide… idk why this is bothering me so much after everything his horrible author has written but wow it’s so fucked.
Yeah Its sadly a common trope in horror. " The abuser wasn't just a normal abuser... THEY WERE MENTALLY ILL OOO SCARY!!!" Like come on... Its understandble to be bothered by it cause its not only offensive but lazy writing too.
@@malikarsyasakanionly suggestion I can think of is to have people with mental illnesses as other characters who have successfully managed and learned to live with their disorders. So even if the focal "psychopath" character is mentally unwell, they just left it to fester in the worst, most poorly adjusted way possible. It's not a far shot from reality. Some people overcome and learn to live with their illnesses even if there are struggles in between and others just don't
Aron Beauregard never grow our of his edglord teenage phase. His first story that he wrote was about a guy who confesed his fillings to a girl, the girl rejected him, so he killed her, raped her dead body, and gets her courps preagnent. He wrote this before he started publishing. He did not grow as a writer. I don't get how this men has a fiance/wife. Yes. In an interview he said he has a fiance. And I read an interview with him, and oh boy. He discribed his writing as "pushing boundaries", which is just? What boundaries? What? His whole deal is how much rape, and gore he can fit into a book. There is nothing to it. The Slob is just about a menatly chelenged man killing, raping, and toruting women. The Playground was intended to be about how the rich exploits the poor, but ended up being badly writen gore with homophobic, and antisemetic undertons. The Son of the Slob is just the first book, but with more shit. But at least he did not sink to Matt Shaw to write an agressiv book to a book youtuber who said an negativ word about his book, then write an 20 page esse on why she was wrong, and traid to ruin her reputetion.
Every time I hear a creative say "They're pushing boundaries" I can't help but roll my eyes. What boundaries are they pushing? What they're doing has already been done by many before them.
@@babybush164 Stephen King said the grossout is the easiest thing to achieve, and the subtler you are, the more difficult it is to achieve. Authors like these come and go, but think of something like Shirley Jackson's work or Flannery Connor or M R James, or any number of authors whose work is challenging and also subtle, that stuff lasts.
One thing that I fully agree with you with is how this book could be fixed at the end. "The Slob" had all of the pieces to be a commentary piece on the assault of women, yet it refused to be anything more than just a gross splatter-gore piece. The ending doesn't even feel like a real ending, just a cycle contiuing WHICH WOULD'VE WORKED IF THAT'S WHAT THE STORY WANTED TO SAY. Your mention of the protagonist having OCD and feeling like her insides would be dirty or "unclean" after her assault would've been a great comment on SA. Many victims feel that same way and so much more could've been discussed with how the body feels after assault, many limits being pushed by the fact that this is an extreme horror book. There's a lot of potential when it comes to the summary of the books this author makes, but it just ends up getting ruined because the author seems to care about shock value more than anything. Reminds me of UrbanSpook honestly.
I like to pretend that the book ends with Vera getting an abortion to symbolize her escaping from the traumatic abuse she endured, and living her life EXTRA CLEAN. The author could've shown how it affects her day to day life and how even cockroaches cause her to break down because of the abuse from the slob and trauma from her childhood. And no matter how clean the house is, she will always feel unclean.
@@theflickchick9850in the tv show, Hannibal is pan, and Will Graham(a charaecter from the books) is bi, and Bryan Fuller(creator of the tv show) said that before the show got cancelled, those two did in fact start dating, despite nothing romantic ever shown. tbf the show was made in 2013-2015(i think)
"I need to find something to protect myself" *ignores the the big heavy vacuum* "i can't find anything looks like i have to do what he says" *uses the big heavy vacuum to clean instead of hitting the slob*
Aron's writing sucks but to be fair using a heavy object as a weapon is not easy 😭 the strength it would take to wield it would be enormous even in a life or death situation
Aron needs a lot of lessons. He clearly doesn’t understand mental illness like BPD. And he has this over reliance of using “ugly = evil” writing trope. Good job as always!
Honestly, your sense of humor and personality is what makes this story and playground more easy to listen to. Like, for the life of me I could never read this on my own otherwise I would lose my sanity. thank you for your sacrifice. I hope to see more content like this in the future from you!
“That rug was determined to hold onto Lisa” is a really great line. That one line is better than ALL of the books this Goober has written, combined. Also, I love the memes. It definitely makes the story more bearable to listen to. Good job! 👍🏻✨ Edit: I also love what you said at the end, about how horribly women are treated in horror. It’s almost funny, but I could list like 10 examples of a horror movie involving sexual assault against a woman, but I could only think of _one_ where a man is the victim. Obviously, there are more than one instance of it, but I could only come up with one off the top of my head. Overall, you made some really great points and I think you’re on you’re way to becoming a much bigger channel, so keep up the good work, but don’t forget to put yourself first. I know reading shit like this can’t be good for your mental health 😅❤
Great breakdown of why some of the extreme horror genre is becoming a bit tired. When you have no limitations on what you want to put in your book, it all blends together and even the more extreme aspects become a bit tired because they lack weight eventually.
Desensitized is what you’re talking about. Which like, y’all can just not read the books… I usually don’t consume stuff like splatterhorror en masse. It either gets overwhelming or I get bored. But once in a while I pick it up.
@@DeathnoteBB “y’all can just not read the books” If every single person who disliked this stuff just simply didn’t read it, there would be no criticism. That’s pretty stupid advice. Criticism is important.
@@DeathnoteBBno one said that lol ????? the og comment was talking abt how violence for the sake of violence and shock factor in extreme horror can get boring when its done over and over again with no meaning
@@DeathnoteBBYou have absolutely zero creativity if you think extreme horror can’t be well written. Even Japanese guro visual novels (in which the horror is even more extreme) manage to have much better writing than Aron’s work. Crazy how there’s guro hentais with much better understanding of human anatomy and with way better-written female characters than Aron’s lazy tripe.
And the Marquis De Sade could actually sting a story and sentences together in a way that makes sense. His work is brutally honest about his own psyche and ideas, this is just throwing horror concepts at the wall and hoping someone will go "OH NOOOOOOO HOW AWFUL!!!!!!!"
I have read this and Playground, and honestly, they’re not scary or disturbing. It’s just gross. And to call the genre “splatterpunk”? That’s sugarcoating that it’s t*rture p*rn. Aron’s books are what an edgy teenager thinks is scary, extremely vile stuff for sheer shock value.
Instead of writing this, Aaron should hve written a sequel to Playground in which an adult Donnie tries to hunt down someone attempting to make another child death game
Aron’s books and his way of writing really reminds me of the analog horror series The Painter by Urbanspook. Both of their series just include outrageous and gory stuff for the sake of being edgy. It’s gross content that serves no purpose other than to just be disgusting and vile. I have no issue with including sensitive content in a book or series, but they have to be done in a respectful and tasteful way. Horror is more scary because of the psychological aspects of it, with the fear that something like this could happen or has happened in real life. But they’re both so “extreme” that they just loop back around to being lazy and dull. It’s gore for the sake of scaring the audience through shock value instead of having an actual scary plot line, interesting story, and compelling characters.
the combination of your cute voice, weirdly wholesome memes, and lightning mcqueen visuals makes this abomination of the english language somewhat…digestible (subbing because holy shit now i need to listen to more)
I meant to finish writing a long winded applauding comment about how "yes i get i agreed to watch/read/etc something disgusting but this is just.... boring. Its nothing. Yeah sure its shocking and gross but it's boring" is so PERFECTLY summed up as someone whos an avid horror fan AND a woman. But then the "sold to 5sos" reading at the end sent me too hard i forgot my coherent train of thought. Your delivery, humor, and summaries are all top tier.
Beauregard is a lazy author, period. He has these ideas that could work out if he just actually gave writing a serious try (like doing basic research on the topics he plans to write about, learning vocabulary, envisioning his characters as human beings instead of one dimensional humanoids ...) but he seems content with just sitting for a few hours and typing whatever first comes to mind, gets it all out of his system and then is like "Welp, got bored, so that's that! :)" and submits the half assed attempt at a book that we end up reading. It wouldn't be so terrible if he was an amateur author but no, after all of the numerous novels he has published this is simply his style: Mediocre, with little to no interest in improving.
well he has a cult following that eats up everything he feeds them and i guess he's content with that. he's also appreciated in the extreme horror community by other authors, mostly his friends lol but they all applaud each other no matter what anyway
@@mainmorpho I'm well aware and that's why I second guessed my first impression and gave some of his others books a chance (The slob, Son of the slob and Yellow) and then I couldn't go any further and had to accept that I wasted my time reading the works of a bad writer. If he enjoys to write about abuse, assault, sh1t, d1ck cheese, whatever, it's extreme horror and to each their own, but the fact that he just refuses to put any sort of real effort to improve just a little bit... That's what gets me. Anyway, I liked your video (forgot to mention it in my first comment), I agree with most of your opinions on it and I'm glad you included the plot twist with the gays at the end because its something that's usually not mentioned in the reviews of this book despite it being so weird. You have a great sense of humor and I hope to see more of your book or manga analysis in the future!
@@DeathnoteBBAh yes, the kids who each had like 2 or 3 defining personality traits at best were soooo compelling. The villain with the scat fetish who wants more than anything to literally fuck herself is such a well written character. It’s ok to like trashy books but let’s not kid ourselves and pretend they’re anything more than that.
I'm not surprised that The Slob is worse than Playground. Aron Beauregard is the exact reason for why I say and believe that all splatterpunk horror books and movies are just made by men who hate women for men who hate women. I'm sorry, there's no possible way for any rational person with absolutely no hatred or misogyny to make something this horrific. As much as I want to believe otherwise, there's nothing that's proven so.
I did look over to review the content warnings as you requested. Also, I do enjoy the meme clip edits to still provide a visual component that also goes along with the story. With regards to these two books from your analysis, I do generally agree with your observations with writing style. 1) I don’t hate the angle of focusing on motherhood, but I don’t think Aron has a compelling voice to make this work. a) also, if you smash a woman’s lower extremities, perform a ridiculous A procedure, there is to much dark cartoon fantasy going about to make it believable. Part of I believe what makes this genre work is being able to visualize and feel horror on something that could happen. This could not happen, and she would not get pregnant. 2) I am not sure why the main character thought sticking an entire arm bone up in herself (it could be debated how realistically this is to accomplish and if so, be mobile and walk around) versus just clubbing him or turning it into a makeshift shank. You could argue some points perhaps, but what she did would probably be in the later list of things someone would attempt. 3) Although she probably had a decent flexibility in choosing her locations as she was making sales, she probably would have stated “I will be around THIS area.” Doing the thing I should not be doing, applying realism into this gore cess pit, the husband would have called the work to inform them his wife hasn’t been home in weeks. A basic investigation would have occurred, and the Sawyer house would not avoid suspicion for too long. 4) I also do not want to read son of the slob. He certainly didn’t become a R@pist cannibal messy man due to genetics. If raised in some semblance of normal (damn my realism filter), the book would be a boring diary of normal everyday childhood. 5) you draft your script way better then I drafted my comment. Well done. 6) The film Martyrs works because we care about both Lucy and Anna. They are likable characters that we hope for a good outcome. Spoiler, it doesn’t. If the author commits the worst crime, and makes a flat character, their is no agency to the reader as it becomes just events to happen to person X. People don’t remember person X, they remember Anna. Thank you for your lovely content that you subject yourself to in order to share it with us. See you at the next book club meeting.
THIS! EVERYTHING YOU'VE SAID! Also, even if she miraculously survived the Slob's late-term abortion from hell, there would be no way she could get pregnant (EDIT: You've covered that). The idea of "Son of Slob" is even stupider. Unless Vera and her spouse were terrible parents, he would just be a nice, normal kid. I guess Aron is into eugenics, too. It would have worked better if "Son of Slob" was a good kid who grew up to confront his past and the family that raised the Slob (or an expy of the Slob). Again, the Son shouldn't even exist! Her neithers were so busted up that she shouldn't be able to get pregnant again. I guess he thinks the wheelchair bound are all so helpless that they can't just pick up a phone. If he's paraplegic, she should be able to get around and do stuff on his chair. And the spouse would have called the police right away! It's a stupid story that does it's darndest to stuff every bit of bigotry and denial of science and biology into it to be as awful and stupid as possible. I know it's Spatterpunk and the point of the genre is to be as repulsive as possible, but Aron Beauregard sounds like a bigoted, childish, edgelord who can't write and creates a parody of Spatterpunk.
I've got a physical copy of Playground and look forward to reading it. I don't really care if the writing is bad. Can't be any worse than the many shitty horror movies I've seen. Although his writing style may come off as try hard which is generally a put off for me Playground doesn't sound too bad. Also Aron's first story was called Zombie Child and he wrote it in the 6th grade. It is about how he gets rejected by the girl of his dreams so he decides to murder her and impregnate her corpse. You've gotta be some kind of fucked in the head to write like that at that age. I get being an avid enjoyer of extreme horror but considering a lot of his writing comes off like that is a bit concerning to me
I'm not against extreme horror as a concept but a lot of it is weird male authors fantasizing about the abhorrent violent abuse they would like to inflict upon women
@@sophitiaofhyrulethat's my stance. and why the most "extreme" my horror has gotten is a woman brutally killing her father for being abusive to her dad (not her though. not her. she resents him bc of what he did to her dad) and honestly that was just 'cause I thought it'd be interesting for an animatic to have her tear out his ribcage bc he is a fuckin twig and she's a professional actress. seriously I still wonder how no cis man in the splatterpunk genre has considered a female revenge story. have her be going after a company that covered up some really bad things or group of people that personally hurt her. or someone she cared about! bc with that you'd get the audience more invested in seeing those people die instead of just disturbed. for me at least you have to get me hooked to either the idea of a character dying, or get attached to a character so I'm more impacted by their death. but that really only works for things that aren't splatterpunk. or horror in general. things like Percy Jackson are the ones that hit me the most when someone dies. but if you give me an absolute monster? I'll read the entire thing waiting to see them get their just desserts.
@@TheWonksterseems pretty on par for a cis man who's claim to fame is "I had a child be brutally and slowly murdered." they always seem to just write their sexual fantasies.... either line by line or sexual fantasies; but violent. I've only seen one queer splatterpunk writer and unsurprisingly, their books, while pretty mid, didn't contain women being tortured! only woman I saw who was hurt wasn't physically harmed, she just was in a very toxic master/slave dynamic with her girlfriend who got her fired from her job for not wearing underwear under her skirt at work and had her kill a lizard. (which made the MC girl break up with her. but then came back and her girlfriend then for some reason had her try to get a tapeworm...? which is. ick. but I guess it's better than having her brutally be murdered instead of quickly taking her own life. ...yaaaay?) and the other one was a fictional character in a book the main character was writing, and her thing wasn't splatterpunk it was sci-fi horror. she was stuck in a time loop. and she was the final girl. I mean she was still stuck but she was and always will be the final girl. their books aren't GOOD but by lord, compared to the cishet authors? their books look like the Mona Lisa!
Fun fact: The fact that Daniel was injured during the last day of the vietnam war makes no sense, why,?, because the US left A MONTH BEFORE, and the last day of the Vietnam War was when tanks rolled into the presidential palace, which almost NO FIGHTING OCCURED, especially any bombardments that would leave Daniel with shrapnel in him.
I would like to comment that one can make a rape/revenge story and have it not be a trash fire. Like many things it relates to the people behind it and the real intent of the content. I would say Revenge, American Mary, and Promising Young Woman are all rape/revenge films, all were women directed and all have strong feminist based themes.
yes definitely but most of them are just like "hey let's show everyone how they violate this woman for an hour and then we'll show her cutting their dicks off at the end it'll be so fun everybody will love it" as if that just erases the whole hour of graphic torture. honestly even though i have criticized PYW in the past it's still a much much better r/r story. i have yet to watch others but i've heard revenge being praised A LOT so really excited for that
I don't usually make assumptions about an author based on the content of their work... unless there's an unmistakable pattern that crops up. I don't think I have the Criminal Psychology degree necessary to articulate the picture Aron has painted in my mind of himself.
Vegan Lightning McQueen…. In all seriousness, thank you for reading these atrocious books and explaining them in an enjoyable way, even though they’re disgusting. You’re a saint
In fairness gay men have committed some of the most monstrous crimes: Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Nilsen, Bob Berdella, Paul Bateson, Dean Corll granted usually towards other men or children but that's not very splatter punk.
I don’t comment on many RUclips videos but I really enjoy your channel and wanted to let you know that you’re doing a great job! Can’t wait to watch your future videos
jesus this channel has every check of 'about to grow like crazy.' awesome breakdown vids, started just as a way to showcase stuff to friends. keep it up, this stuff is gold!
Yeah its a great point about Desensitization of violence. You need moments of levity to keep your disturbing moments disturbing. If you want to go on with a really messed up book club type thing Cows by Matthew Stokoe (its on par with how bad this is maybe worse but id be interested to see you do one of these kinds of videos about it)
Why do i feel like someone should check this man computer...... Having listen to both videos back to back it's too evident that these are his fetish like you said. Also i wholeheartedly agree on the exploit of SA in the horror/gore comunity wich is why most time i have a hard time enjoying them. Thanks for sacrificing your in reading these and tell us about it!
I just wanna tell you that you did great with this video, & your way of describing/analyzing the book “Playground” by Aron Beauregard was awesome (I also liked how you used anime images from Spy x Family & Erased to describe the parents & kids of the book, by the way. It was a nice touch) so amazing work my dear❤
This video is actually so validating I’m tired of seeing people on my tiktok fyp promote this persons books like they’re amazing pieces of horror media
You give really good writing and character tips, I really liked your point about how people talk slightly differently and how they can show their interests and how certain things can effect a persons way of speech. Cars visuals were PEAK and Im actually obsessed with your videos now lmao, so glad I was recommended ur channel
I don't know about anyone else, but I found the sins part of the video pretty informative. I've never put much thought into giving characters distinct ways of speaking, but that's definitely something I want to improve in my own writing. So thank you for the (probably) unintentional writing advice, Morpho!
"I knew she would reach through the phone and stuff her wet socks in my mouth" That is possibly one of the funniest ways I've ever heard of saying "my friend would probably hate me for sharing this with them." 🤣Love that.
Great work! Another enjoyable watch. I appreciate that you mentioned that there has been no significant improvement in his work between years… Even with two editors? He has poor syntax too, yes? I also think it’s great that you also used more casual or “common” ways to describe how to differentiate characters and develop them by using one’s friends as an example, and that they have different ways and levels of communication or expression. Awesome, awesome. And it’s very intriguing that once again the LGBTQ is oddly the villain but in a way that is definitely not a coincidence.. Interesting.. 🤔 Interesting that the woman characters are all mothers or want to be one. Makes you wonder if Aaron is just blabbering due to the genre by simulating shocking bigotry, or what might actually be his own opinion…. As somebody who has a host with OCD, I found the thing about the main character very strange and seemingly not mentioned by name so that he’s not considered.. “responsible”, for accuracy, as you mentioned.. I agree. -Jared Cox
Oh, another thing: him reusing the shock factors already done by him so clearly is disappointing, and obviously shock that is repeated gets old.. The least one could do, purely in my opinion, (although, of course, no one is for sure obligated to ANYTHING when they create art), is to attempt to create more interesting and inspire non-repetitive disgust in the audience.
Ok but the detail of "the gays" near the end of your book recap really stuck out to me because only eggs would say the only way they can be pretty themselves is to eat other girls-ok that didn't sound right- I'm trying to say the "gays" eating girls to be prettier is very trans coded and has a lot of horrific implications in my opinion. That's just me though haha Edit: Sin #4 flashbanged me with how casually you talked about that book you mentioned with a woman's vagina opening up to another fucking world, you most certainly have to explain/review that book in the future sometime because I refuse to let that go without further information about that gfgfdh
I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this but I'm really grateful that you put visual character images to go with the names. I'm not good with names and pairing it with the story so it helps a lot
The OCD probably wasn't even researched either, it's just the common misconception of "OCD is being a clean freak!" Which, first of all, OCD isn't seeing something dirty and wanting to clean it. OCD is cleaning something and then, ten minutes later, feeling an intense need to clean it again. And secondly OCD doesn't just manifest as cleanliness. It manifests in other ways, for example, needing to flip a light switch 73 times before leaving a room. Normally I would forgive this second point, as I understand the cleanliness is to go with the "theme" of the book, but it's so obvious the author is just using the laziest shock value slop he can find that I'm not going to give him any leeway.
All I can say throughout this whole review was that "yeah this is a book", I couldn't tell you how much I wanted to tap out, but being sucked back in because of how horrible and edgy this book truly is, it's like watching a terrible car crash and then that car catching on fire with the person inside and all you can hear is just the screams and you're just there standing there watching it all unfold and no matter how much you want to look away you just can't.
Very much loved both of your videos, this author very much feels like the Marquis De Sade, only without his witty and provocative humor nor his incredible (if very questionable) philosophycal knowledge
I'm so happy you posted again! If you're looking for something a bit different to make videos on, I think Gothic horror sounds like an interesting genre to break down - could be a good palate cleanser. Otherwise, if you want to keep it more violent, I'd be interested in hearing a review of a book that a famous horror movie is based off, like Jurassic Park, Silence of the Lambs or American Psycho. But I'm down for the more obscure books if that's more interesting to you (:
I am an SA survivor with OCD, and I am blown away by how accurately you described how a person with OCD would normally think and act in Vera’s position
So happy to see my comment at the beginning ❤ Btw, your voice is so cute and soothing, which even made the disgusting story feel like a bedtime story 😂 I'm quite intrigued by the extreme horror genre, but can't handle reading them firsthand. Glad I found your channel. You really deserve all the appreciation ❤
I know I’m late to the party here and I almost never comment on RUclips videos but I just wanted to say how beautifully you phrased the last part about SA in horror media. You voiced something I’ve been thinking about for a while so astutely and eloquently. Thank you.
"super turbo disgusting people do bad things, then die." Also one-liners. This isn't horror, this is goof-a-thon cause its less realistic than Gandalf falling with Balrog then coming back as white version of himself yet its written as realistic horror or something.
Your videos are just delightful. The juxtaposition of the cute images you show while talking about such disgusting subject matter in your sweet little voice is such an experience. Your dry sense of humor is *chef's kiss* and the icing on the cake. If you want something really gross that doesn't take too much time, read Eric the Pie. It's free online, posted by the author himself. But I honestly wish I hadn't read it, it made me ill.
You know, I've enjoyed plenty of violent/gory media before (some of my favorite horror media is body horror stuff like John Carpenter's The Thing, or the manga of Junji Ito), but everything I hear about Aron Beauregard's work just turns me off in a way I can't quite articulate.
Good body horror gets under your skin because it distorts the human form in a disturbing way, or because you can imagine what the actions feel like. A lot of the really hard to watch scenes are because we can imagine ourselves in that situation. It’s like how it’s really hard to watch someone’s fingernails get pulled off, you can just *feel* it, but seeing someone attacked with a chainsaw doesn’t really get you in the gut, you can’t imagine what that’s like. Beauregard’s stuff is shocking yes, but you don’t feel a connection at all to the violence, you can’t feel it and it has no underlying meaning
So very glad to see this. And so very glad to hear the comment at the end that you will explore other authors. Really hoping that this does become an ongoing series of horror book clubs. I have come up with a few more suggestions that are actually extreme disturbing like what you have here, but are actually well written and not dumpster fires, though both are mangas. Happy Sugar Life and Ichi the Killer. Ichi the Killer was made into a film and Happy Sugar Life was made into an anime, but both started as mangas and the manga version of both would work great here. Really good reads. Please keep this series up!
@@mainmorpho Happy Sugar Life revolves around a pedophile that has kidnapped a 6 year old child. You see the story from the pedophile's point of view and as such what she is doing is presented in a positive, even romantic way that is full of goodness, which is why it has the title it does. Of course this is all a lie she is telling herself as the story makes it more and more clear as it goes on and you see just how evil and dangerous she is.
@@rkivelover if you mean Happy Sugar Life, yes it is. Obviously I'm not sure how much I can recommend it. Luckily there is no rape scene of the 6 year old. In the story the pedophile, Satou, is heavily suggested to be asexual. One of her talking points that she uses to defend her actions is that she is not sexually assaulting the child(but she is kidnapping them, manipulating them, gas lighting them, treating them as an adult(expecting them to act like an adult in a romantic based relationship) and it just goes on like this). So luckily there is no actual rape of the child, though other characters are raped(Satou, being a pedophile, kind of hangs around and interacts with all kinds of horrible people.) Of course having to read a full story of the most evil being telling you why they aren't evil can be a lot to process it is still a great story.
The illustrations at the beginning of each chapter reminds me of scholastic books funnily enough. Makes me think the pictures were probably inserted by the publisher without input from the author/editors, that's probably how it happened.
I just stumbled upon this and now im fascinated by splatterpunk as a genre and giving it literary analysis! The slob is something i wouldn't want to read on it's own because of how its written tone-wise and the way the author fetishizes the edginess of it, but the baseline concepts of a murderer that is representative of the protagonist's childhood trauma and an antithesis of their core values is a cool concept for a book! And the final idea of her realizing that her husband was also a symptom of the same ideologies that forced her into the situations that she ended up in because he views her as dirty and unlovable despite her survival and him being a supportive husband previously is something deeply saddening and is a good commentary on how misogyny continuously retraumatizes those impacted by it is such a solid ending for a book with those themes... And then she got pregnant again. I think the author doesn't understand how vaginas work despite him being a guy that writes about vaginal trauma quite a lot...
Another similarity I noticed between this book and Playground was the usage of what I assume we, the audience, are supposed to think is a badass one liner when the villain is defeated Playground: Geraldine: But I'm your mother! Rock: And I'm a mother fucker! lmao what!? 😂 The Slob: "You are what you eat" The second one isn't quite as cringeworthy, but it still sounds really dumb in context
I loved your insights on the realities of SA and revenge in everyday life vs how they are portrayed in fiction. A poignant but easily understood explanation that I appreciate immensely!
The moment you brought up Vera was a door-to-door vacuum saleswoman, I knew exactly where this was going. 13:25 In the words of Weird Al Yankovic, "Aw, man, I hate it when I'm right!" 😫
Your commentary and breakdown is so entertaining and hilarious! You are now the only person I trust when it comes to the splatterpunk genre. I am honestly thoroughly convinced that Aron Beauregard is actually just three edgy 13 year olds wearing a trenchcoat because this is some childish writing for someone that is supposedly an adult. He's just throwing around these serious and heavy topics all willy nilly like he just heard about them for the first time. edit: The examples you provided of his writing also reads like he has started to write for the first time too. 100% 13 year old in a trenchcoat wearing a fake mustache.
I had to pause my knitting at part3, because it was so funny. It was hilarious how you started off chill and collected and then went full on "this sucked, get better" (and honestly, I can't can't blame you).
Genuinely just finished watching playground video and good LORD you are literally one of my fav book reviewers now I love your deadpan humour so much it’s such a delight to listen to you pick apart dumb bad books
I feel like you could make a prejudice bingo and win with this book. Fatphobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism against the mentally ill... dingdingding! nobody's a winner.
came to hear about some disgusting shenanigans and stayed for your extremely well put thoughts on exploitative torture porn like that was just 11/10, perfectly sums up of this kind of "stories" makes me feel great vid, great pacing, your editing is awesome and makes this way easier to digest, i hope you'll get to read some good books soon 👌
I don't got the time to read these disturbing stories so the way you're presenting them is refreshing. Keep at it and you're going to get millions of subscribers in no time
This book has come across the Audible suggestion scroll on my facebook, and I assumed it was fetish porn. Listening to your video has convinced me that I'm pretty close in my assumption... but only by half. Thank you for subjecting yourself to this so others can get a taste and decide if they want to swallow crap and read it or spit out crap and just sit with the foul flavor left by just knowing.
I'm a huge fan of splatterpunk and extreme horror but given how short most of them are I can't really bring myself to buy the books or use a credit on audible so getting these recaps is great
I love when the slob starts saying "It's slobing times" and then proceed to slob all over the place
😂😢
Dead meme alert!
"It's Slobberin' Time!" was right there! Right! There! D:
Slob on my knob
@@mascaliucgheorgheemanoil9744the comment was half a year ago no shi
People said "This book is a horror book so it means it's trying to scare me, it did scare me cause shock value, therefore this book is good," and knowing that brings me pain
there is a lot to discuss about that opinion cuz i do not agree at all 💀
interesting do tell@@mainmorpho
Agreed
I don’t think a book’s value is determined by how morbid your imagination can be lol
His books just feel like he decided to weaponise his intrusive thoughts
I think a quality book is thought provoking and connects different ideas together
Aron beauregard feels like he channels them thoughts like "what if I poked this needle"
No it just means that the book is shocking, this is equivalent to saying that running over an animal and looking at the mangled corpse is a good horror experience because it's revolting.
this is if urbanspook wrote a book
I was about to say I'd prefer urbanspook to this guy but on second thought u right
At least these actually have a story
i mean at least urbanspook has good art (and sountracks) and that's his main focus so u can kinda justify the wack story, but with a book? yea a couple of illustrations are not gonna cut it
@@vxmpxrefvngs2517 agreed he is a fucking prodigy at drawing and music
@@cawsomeaolin and again his series is like a learning curve, the later episodes still suffer from that terrible exposition, but the animation bit and the phone call were pretty sick ngl
Pretty sure the only way Aron writes books is
10% his fetishes
10% misogyny
10% whatever group he’s decided to hate when he woke up that day
70% a checklist of gross stuff he’s got on a wall somewhere. Dead child tick, SA tick, poop tick etc….
Like when the bone/mirror in vag, guy just looks around his room/Google’s “weird sharp stuff” and picks something. That’s as far as his imagination goes 🙄
Really enjoyed your review, I can’t bring myself to read these books cause the exploitation pisses me off when it’s handled so badly, but I’m also morbidly curious.
Make sure you read some lighter books sometimes tho it’s gotta be draining to read these all the time, take care of yourself ❤
apparently in one of his other books called "yellow" the male character in the book uses a tire iron to sa a woman so you're defo right. he takes a look around, finds something long and yells "stick it in a vag"
This comment 😂😂😂
@morphomorphs I feel like as an extreme horror author, one of the things he thinks that every book needs to be EXTREME is rape. I get a lot of these books that have that in it, but horror isn't just about rape. However, I am new to the genre, so maybe it is a big part of it
@@byrongardner9299 it seems to be quite common. almost every extreme horror book i search about has some sort of sa in it which is not only upsetting but also infuriating because it's so lazy
@@byrongardner9299 Extreme horror and splatterpunk tend to go hand in hand but there is a big difference between the two. Extreme horror tends to have a lot of rape and sexual assault I won't call it lazy since the whole point of extreme horror is to make the reader feel uneasy and rape and sexual assault are an easy way to do it BUT on the other hand it would not kill these authors to try and think outside the box a bit more.
He wrote "Manson-esque charm" about HIMSELF?! This dude is something else lol
Nah he wilding for that Jfc 😂😂😂
Which Manson?????
@@idonteatspiders2986both are bad options! But which one?!
Honestly I just want to talk to him. Like I want to ask him “why?”, and “For what reason?”. Maybe add in a little “Could you not?”. Then maybe call the police idk.
@@idonteatspiders2986RIGHT WHICH ONE LMAOOOOOOO CUS IMA ASSUME HE MEANT CHARLES 😂
I feel bad for the FBI who had to read this story because you know Aron is on the watch list
They put an intern lmao
Wdym? He seriously has a possibility of being a criminal?
They must have a strong stomach then, because after all gore that I've read and watched, willingly or not, this book is the first thing that makes me think that I'm physically unable to just SIT THROUGH the video. I really want to vomit just at 15:17 ±
@@serxinnedits8107 with a books like that it wouldn't be that surprising, would it? He has a wide, you know? I think he mentioned it in Playground's notes, but Good Lord, I pray and hope he won't have children. Even if he won't do a single thing to them, it still would be disgusting to discover what your dad has written
There sre 5 people on the most wanted author's list and 4 of them are Aron
NOT THE CANNIBAL GAYS PLOT TWIST!!!!!
Onibi series but with gays instead of lesbians
@@HelenJustetsOrTheNormalGirl Y’all it’s a Masa fan in the wild make a wish
That ending. I would say it's like a homophobic tween trying to be edgy. How could anyone ever say this is a good book with an ending like that? Also, the main character would die without question from the unborn child death scene. There is no way possible someone could live through that and it is so overly ridiculous and so overly extreme it almost feels like it is supposed to be comical. What was the writer even thinking?
All I'm gonna say is that the reason all his writing comes off like an edgy tween is probably because the first story he wrote was when he was like 12 and his crush rejected him, so he wrote a story about him killing her then impregnating her corpse and a bunch of other edgy shit, and his writing just didn't evolve or mature that much.
I completely agree. When I read that chapter about the gay guy cult and was like, “What in the actual…no”
@@amazingspiderlad wtf is that true
@@eilir_adron44:56
Yikes y:
@@amazingspiderladIt’s more because the genre is splatterpunk
She broke her own teeth eating the meat???? Ok bro that's so ridiculous I hate this dude's writing
Yeah it’s almost like it’s Splatterpunk or something
@@DeathnoteBBstill poorly written lol
@@Watttttt I mean that can be your opinion
Why are you riding so hard for this guy. The book just isn’t good. Things can be objectively bad, even if you enjoy them.
Just cause splatterpunk is considered a genre doesn’t make it immune to criticism. This isn’t a free speech argument, no one is saying people can’t write things like this or that it shouldn’t be allowed, but we don’t have to lie to ourselves and say this book is any good.
was she eating pure rind and bone?!
“MY COOCHIE SWORD!” I’m sorry! I fucking lost it, that’s hilarious!
That's gotta be on a shirt
SAME BRO
Oh same. I was losing it as I wasn't expecting it.
God it's almost criminal how good the one sentence summary of these are because they sound great!
"Traumatized woman with crippling OCD and PTSD walks in to the lair of what she fears most"
"Struggling families are lured with money to test a high tech playground by a suspicious and affluent crone"
It makes me want to rewrite both of these so badly, with more dynamic characters and less "gore for the sake of gore"
please do, that sounds interesting!
go for it honestly bc even your one sentence summaries are so much better than the synopses of his books on goodreads
You NEED to do that! They are interesting concepts, just poorly executed and someone could really work with that.
ID READ IF U REWRITE THE BOOKS FOR SURE!! Honestly the concepts are interesting..they're just badly executed
"less gore for the sake of gore" defeats the whole point of splatterpunk.
Idk how to explain this but This Was Very Written By A Man
I think whats frustrating is we could've gotten some cool psycho analysis and parallels between the slob and how she used to live. How he almost represents that early childhood trauma. It could've been great goddammit >:((
Absolutely, especially with how she is traumatized by cleaning her sisters carpet and him forcing her to clean his. I physically cringed when she willingly followed that dude, a STRANGER into his attic.
37:50 This! So much this! In theory I like the *idea* of the "rape and revenge" narrative because I imagine that survivors could find it very cathartic, but making the rape portions so graphic just makes it impossible to ever really get to the actually cathartic portions.
Exactly! Focus more on her plan to fight back and escape. Also, have her get inspired by music choices that are less... I dunno... "cheesy" (Michael Jackson made great music but it's so cheesy and cliche to have him and New Kids on the Block be the bands of choice).
(Sorry for making an essay however) I agree with this! I think "rape and revenge" *can* work, as long as the gruesome bits aren't too heavily detailed but can still sort of linger in your mind. For example, there's this book that's also a movie (I only watched the movie btw so I don't know what's actually in the book) called Room, which is told from the perspective of the victim's child. (Spoilers ahead)
Basically, the story is this woman gets kidnapped by this guy, and he uses her as a sex slave for several years, and at some point, the victim gives birth to our little protagonist. The victim then swears that she will never let her abuser see the child, so whenever he comes over to the shed, the victim hides her child in a closet to keep them separated.
Now because we're in the child's perspective and we're inside the closet, some noises are heard that imply rape but it's never IN YOUR FACE or anything. But it still lingers in your mind because just the idea of rape alone is very haunting, so there's no need for airhorns or megaphones screaming **"OHHHHHHH FELLLAAAAS GUESS WHAT JUUUUUST HAPPENED??? IM NOW GONNA TELL YOU IN EXCRUCIATING DETAAAAAIL ABOUT WHATS GOING ON BECAUSE SHOCK VALUE = PROFIT!!!!!!!!"** But tbh no! There's none of that in Room!
Oh, and as for the "revenge" part, it's less revenge and more escape. I'm not gonna spoil that part because I think it's a worthy watch or read because I think it takes a VERY different approach to the horrors of SA than anything Aron has ever written!
Sorry for making you read all of that! Here, have a pepsi
@@emytoonz That sounds awesome! I've heard of the movie.
Don't worry about the length. As long as there are breaks between paragraphs, it's fine.
It's the non-stop walls-of-text that are unreadable.
I hate hate HATE the way people with bipolar disorder are depicted and treated. I’m someone who is borderpolar (term used for people comorbid with BPD and bipolar disorder) and to only exist in a story to be a horrible abusive monster and then to end their life to suicide… idk why this is bothering me so much after everything his horrible author has written but wow it’s so fucked.
fr aron used that poor woman as a plot device just to make another woman suffer like what's ur problem mate
Yeah Its sadly a common trope in horror. " The abuser wasn't just a normal abuser... THEY WERE MENTALLY ILL OOO SCARY!!!" Like come on... Its understandble to be bothered by it cause its not only offensive but lazy writing too.
Makes me worried on how I can make a Psychotic Protagonist without making it look or sound ableist?
@@malikarsyasakanionly suggestion I can think of is to have people with mental illnesses as other characters who have successfully managed and learned to live with their disorders. So even if the focal "psychopath" character is mentally unwell, they just left it to fester in the worst, most poorly adjusted way possible. It's not a far shot from reality. Some people overcome and learn to live with their illnesses even if there are struggles in between and others just don't
Especially when borderline goes away after a while, you people deserve respect
Aron Beauregard never grow our of his edglord teenage phase. His first story that he wrote was about a guy who confesed his fillings to a girl, the girl rejected him, so he killed her, raped her dead body, and gets her courps preagnent. He wrote this before he started publishing. He did not grow as a writer. I don't get how this men has a fiance/wife. Yes. In an interview he said he has a fiance.
And I read an interview with him, and oh boy. He discribed his writing as "pushing boundaries", which is just? What boundaries? What? His whole deal is how much rape, and gore he can fit into a book. There is nothing to it. The Slob is just about a menatly chelenged man killing, raping, and toruting women. The Playground was intended to be about how the rich exploits the poor, but ended up being badly writen gore with homophobic, and antisemetic undertons. The Son of the Slob is just the first book, but with more shit. But at least he did not sink to Matt Shaw to write an agressiv book to a book youtuber who said an negativ word about his book, then write an 20 page esse on why she was wrong, and traid to ruin her reputetion.
Aaron is pretty much a graphomaniac
SA is pedestrian, the laziest way to generate revulsion. I have read and written horror, and this is the low end of the scale.
Every time I hear a creative say "They're pushing boundaries" I can't help but roll my eyes. What boundaries are they pushing? What they're doing has already been done by many before them.
@@babybush164 Stephen King said the grossout is the easiest thing to achieve, and the subtler you are, the more difficult it is to achieve. Authors like these come and go, but think of something like Shirley Jackson's work or Flannery Connor or M R James, or any number of authors whose work is challenging and also subtle, that stuff lasts.
the comment is good but i need you to take an english class
im a reader by heart and i always believe no books are bad books. But Aron Beaudegard gets on my NERVE. Ive never seen/read a bad book until this
I’m a proud Aaron Beauregard hater
And he writes a ton of books to
@@IamBardsongWolfHe probably churns them out like an industry plant
@@nylogutz_
At least he isn't an AI author. I dislike all his books because they are disgusting shock horror, but at least he doesn't use AI
@@IamBardsongWolf True true
“The Tale of Scroty McBoogerBalls” by Aron Beauregard
This is so fucking funny thank you
Hey, that book was a national treasure. Give Butters some credit.
@@commercialairlineryeah I agree the first book was a masterpiece but the sequel took it way too far in my opinion
I think "the poop that took a pee" was genuinely horrifying and a deep twisted look into what this author is capable of writing...
😂
One thing that I fully agree with you with is how this book could be fixed at the end.
"The Slob" had all of the pieces to be a commentary piece on the assault of women, yet it refused to be anything more than just a gross splatter-gore piece. The ending doesn't even feel like a real ending, just a cycle contiuing WHICH WOULD'VE WORKED IF THAT'S WHAT THE STORY WANTED TO SAY.
Your mention of the protagonist having OCD and feeling like her insides would be dirty or "unclean" after her assault would've been a great comment on SA. Many victims feel that same way and so much more could've been discussed with how the body feels after assault, many limits being pushed by the fact that this is an extreme horror book.
There's a lot of potential when it comes to the summary of the books this author makes, but it just ends up getting ruined because the author seems to care about shock value more than anything. Reminds me of UrbanSpook honestly.
I like to pretend that the book ends with Vera getting an abortion to symbolize her escaping from the traumatic abuse she endured, and living her life EXTRA CLEAN. The author could've shown how it affects her day to day life and how even cockroaches cause her to break down because of the abuse from the slob and trauma from her childhood. And no matter how clean the house is, she will always feel unclean.
I appreciate the use of Hannibal clips when you were talking about them eating homosexuals
As someone who is only like 6 minutes into the video and has never watched Hannibal I’m thoroughly confused
@@elbottio hannibal lecter and will graham are gay as hell
@@elbottioI've never watched the show either but I am a fan of Silence of the Lambs and basically the character of Hannibal is super queer coded.
@@theflickchick9850in the tv show, Hannibal is pan, and Will Graham(a charaecter from the books) is bi, and Bryan Fuller(creator of the tv show) said that before the show got cancelled, those two did in fact start dating, despite nothing romantic ever shown. tbf the show was made in 2013-2015(i think)
@@elbottio cuz hannibal is a homosexual who eats ppl
"I need to find something to protect myself"
*ignores the the big heavy vacuum*
"i can't find anything looks like i have to do what he says"
*uses the big heavy vacuum to clean instead of hitting the slob*
Aron's writing sucks but to be fair using a heavy object as a weapon is not easy 😭 the strength it would take to wield it would be enormous even in a life or death situation
@@jewelxiat especially pregnate i think.
I'm NOT a heavily pregnant woman and there's a 0% chance I could brandish a vacuum as a weapon.
Also like didn’t at one point in the book she mentions having pepper spray? WHY DIDNT SHE USE THAT THEN!?
Aron needs a lot of lessons.
He clearly doesn’t understand mental illness like BPD.
And he has this over reliance of using “ugly = evil” writing trope.
Good job as always!
The way you used the characters from the movie “Cars” is actually hilarious to me. 💀 I love it. Great video. ❤️
Honestly, your sense of humor and personality is what makes this story and playground more easy to listen to. Like, for the life of me I could never read this on my own otherwise I would lose my sanity. thank you for your sacrifice.
I hope to see more content like this in the future from you!
“That rug was determined to hold onto Lisa” is a really great line. That one line is better than ALL of the books this Goober has written, combined.
Also, I love the memes. It definitely makes the story more bearable to listen to. Good job! 👍🏻✨
Edit: I also love what you said at the end, about how horribly women are treated in horror. It’s almost funny, but I could list like 10 examples of a horror movie involving sexual assault against a woman, but I could only think of _one_ where a man is the victim. Obviously, there are more than one instance of it, but I could only come up with one off the top of my head.
Overall, you made some really great points and I think you’re on you’re way to becoming a much bigger channel, so keep up the good work, but don’t forget to put yourself first. I know reading shit like this can’t be good for your mental health 😅❤
Which one did you think of? Antichrist is what immediately jumps into my mind
@@WhiteTulip2002 I was actually thinking of Deliverance, but yeah Antichrist works too 😅
Great breakdown of why some of the extreme horror genre is becoming a bit tired. When you have no limitations on what you want to put in your book, it all blends together and even the more extreme aspects become a bit tired because they lack weight eventually.
Desensitized is what you’re talking about. Which like, y’all can just not read the books… I usually don’t consume stuff like splatterhorror en masse. It either gets overwhelming or I get bored. But once in a while I pick it up.
@@DeathnoteBB “y’all can just not read the books”
If every single person who disliked this stuff just simply didn’t read it, there would be no criticism. That’s pretty stupid advice. Criticism is important.
@@angrycat6954 “This genre meant to be extreme is extreme” isn’t criticism 🥴
@@DeathnoteBBno one said that lol ????? the og comment was talking abt how violence for the sake of violence and shock factor in extreme horror can get boring when its done over and over again with no meaning
@@DeathnoteBBYou have absolutely zero creativity if you think extreme horror can’t be well written.
Even Japanese guro visual novels (in which the horror is even more extreme) manage to have much better writing than Aron’s work.
Crazy how there’s guro hentais with much better understanding of human anatomy and with way better-written female characters than Aron’s lazy tripe.
Someone wants _REALLY_ hard to be the next Marquis de Sade but really just comes off as absolutely inept.
I love this comment because you're absolutely right. De Sade was a terrible person 100% but at least he was honest about his horrifying fetishes
And the Marquis De Sade could actually sting a story and sentences together in a way that makes sense. His work is brutally honest about his own psyche and ideas, this is just throwing horror concepts at the wall and hoping someone will go "OH NOOOOOOO HOW AWFUL!!!!!!!"
I have read this and Playground, and honestly, they’re not scary or disturbing. It’s just gross. And to call the genre “splatterpunk”? That’s sugarcoating that it’s t*rture p*rn. Aron’s books are what an edgy teenager thinks is scary, extremely vile stuff for sheer shock value.
Instead of writing this, Aaron should hve written a sequel to Playground in which an adult Donnie tries to hunt down someone attempting to make another child death game
Woah, thanks for the likes
Aron’s books and his way of writing really reminds me of the analog horror series The Painter by Urbanspook. Both of their series just include outrageous and gory stuff for the sake of being edgy. It’s gross content that serves no purpose other than to just be disgusting and vile. I have no issue with including sensitive content in a book or series, but they have to be done in a respectful and tasteful way. Horror is more scary because of the psychological aspects of it, with the fear that something like this could happen or has happened in real life. But they’re both so “extreme” that they just loop back around to being lazy and dull. It’s gore for the sake of scaring the audience through shock value instead of having an actual scary plot line, interesting story, and compelling characters.
Stunning and brave.
the combination of your cute voice, weirdly wholesome memes, and lightning mcqueen visuals makes this abomination of the english language somewhat…digestible
(subbing because holy shit now i need to listen to more)
jahsjsjdjdjdj thank you so much
Realizing this video was posted unironically put a huge smile on my face. Thank you for your hard work, morpho.
Using the term 'peepee' so often while describing the awful things in this book is hilarious
I meant to finish writing a long winded applauding comment about how "yes i get i agreed to watch/read/etc something disgusting but this is just.... boring. Its nothing. Yeah sure its shocking and gross but it's boring" is so PERFECTLY summed up as someone whos an avid horror fan AND a woman. But then the "sold to 5sos" reading at the end sent me too hard i forgot my coherent train of thought.
Your delivery, humor, and summaries are all top tier.
Beauregard is a lazy author, period. He has these ideas that could work out if he just actually gave writing a serious try (like doing basic research on the topics he plans to write about, learning vocabulary, envisioning his characters as human beings instead of one dimensional humanoids ...) but he seems content with just sitting for a few hours and typing whatever first comes to mind, gets it all out of his system and then is like "Welp, got bored, so that's that! :)" and submits the half assed attempt at a book that we end up reading. It wouldn't be so terrible if he was an amateur author but no, after all of the numerous novels he has published this is simply his style: Mediocre, with little to no interest in improving.
well he has a cult following that eats up everything he feeds them and i guess he's content with that. he's also appreciated in the extreme horror community by other authors, mostly his friends lol but they all applaud each other no matter what anyway
@@mainmorpho I'm well aware and that's why I second guessed my first impression and gave some of his others books a chance (The slob, Son of the slob and Yellow) and then I couldn't go any further and had to accept that I wasted my time reading the works of a bad writer. If he enjoys to write about abuse, assault, sh1t, d1ck cheese, whatever, it's extreme horror and to each their own, but the fact that he just refuses to put any sort of real effort to improve just a little bit... That's what gets me.
Anyway, I liked your video (forgot to mention it in my first comment), I agree with most of your opinions on it and I'm glad you included the plot twist with the gays at the end because its something that's usually not mentioned in the reviews of this book despite it being so weird. You have a great sense of humor and I hope to see more of your book or manga analysis in the future!
thank you
I mean I think Playground had pretty great writing for characters
@@DeathnoteBBAh yes, the kids who each had like 2 or 3 defining personality traits at best were soooo compelling.
The villain with the scat fetish who wants more than anything to literally fuck herself is such a well written character.
It’s ok to like trashy books but let’s not kid ourselves and pretend they’re anything more than that.
I'm not surprised that The Slob is worse than Playground. Aron Beauregard is the exact reason for why I say and believe that all splatterpunk horror books and movies are just made by men who hate women for men who hate women. I'm sorry, there's no possible way for any rational person with absolutely no hatred or misogyny to make something this horrific. As much as I want to believe otherwise, there's nothing that's proven so.
You should check out the stuff being published by Tor Nightfire right now. Lots of women and queer authors doing neat stuff out there these days!
I did look over to review the content warnings as you requested. Also, I do enjoy the meme clip edits to still provide a visual component that also goes along with the story.
With regards to these two books from your analysis, I do generally agree with your observations with writing style.
1) I don’t hate the angle of focusing on motherhood, but I don’t think Aron has a compelling voice to make this work.
a) also, if you smash a woman’s lower extremities, perform a ridiculous A procedure, there is to much dark cartoon fantasy going about to make it believable. Part of I believe what makes this genre work is being able to visualize and feel horror on something that could happen. This could not happen, and she would not get pregnant.
2) I am not sure why the main character thought sticking an entire arm bone up in herself (it could be debated how realistically this is to accomplish and if so, be mobile and walk around) versus just clubbing him or turning it into a makeshift shank. You could argue some points perhaps, but what she did would probably be in the later list of things someone would attempt.
3) Although she probably had a decent flexibility in choosing her locations as she was making sales, she probably would have stated “I will be around THIS area.” Doing the thing I should not be doing, applying realism into this gore cess pit, the husband would have called the work to inform them his wife hasn’t been home in weeks. A basic investigation would have occurred, and the Sawyer house would not avoid suspicion for too long.
4) I also do not want to read son of the slob. He certainly didn’t become a R@pist cannibal messy man due to genetics. If raised in some semblance of normal (damn my realism filter), the book would be a boring diary of normal everyday childhood.
5) you draft your script way better then I drafted my comment. Well done.
6) The film Martyrs works because we care about both Lucy and Anna. They are likable characters that we hope for a good outcome. Spoiler, it doesn’t. If the author commits the worst crime, and makes a flat character, their is no agency to the reader as it becomes just events to happen to person X. People don’t remember person X, they remember Anna.
Thank you for your lovely content that you subject yourself to in order to share it with us. See you at the next book club meeting.
agree agree agree agree martyrs is amazing and one of the best examples of how you can disturb the audience and also have a good story attached to it
THIS! EVERYTHING YOU'VE SAID!
Also, even if she miraculously survived the Slob's late-term abortion from hell, there would be no way she could get pregnant (EDIT: You've covered that).
The idea of "Son of Slob" is even stupider. Unless Vera and her spouse were terrible parents, he would just be a nice, normal kid. I guess Aron is into eugenics, too. It would have worked better if "Son of Slob" was a good kid who grew up to confront his past and the family that raised the Slob (or an expy of the Slob).
Again, the Son shouldn't even exist! Her neithers were so busted up that she shouldn't be able to get pregnant again. I guess he thinks the wheelchair bound are all so helpless that they can't just pick up a phone. If he's paraplegic, she should be able to get around and do stuff on his chair.
And the spouse would have called the police right away!
It's a stupid story that does it's darndest to stuff every bit of bigotry and denial of science and biology into it to be as awful and stupid as possible.
I know it's Spatterpunk and the point of the genre is to be as repulsive as possible, but Aron Beauregard sounds like a bigoted, childish, edgelord who can't write and creates a parody of Spatterpunk.
the author probably thought that episode of south park where they wrote a horribly disgusting book and everyone loved it would happen to him irl.
“fruit mansion” had me SO weak. you are hilarious bro
I've got a physical copy of Playground and look forward to reading it. I don't really care if the writing is bad. Can't be any worse than the many shitty horror movies I've seen. Although his writing style may come off as try hard which is generally a put off for me Playground doesn't sound too bad.
Also Aron's first story was called Zombie Child and he wrote it in the 6th grade. It is about how he gets rejected by the girl of his dreams so he decides to murder her and impregnate her corpse. You've gotta be some kind of fucked in the head to write like that at that age. I get being an avid enjoyer of extreme horror but considering a lot of his writing comes off like that is a bit concerning to me
playground only benifits of shock value its just shit
He's got deep issues but is thankfully far too impotent to actually do anything about it, so he just badly writes about what he would do if he could.
I'm not against extreme horror as a concept but a lot of it is weird male authors fantasizing about the abhorrent violent abuse they would like to inflict upon women
@@sophitiaofhyrulethat's my stance. and why the most "extreme" my horror has gotten is a woman brutally killing her father for being abusive to her dad (not her though. not her. she resents him bc of what he did to her dad)
and honestly that was just 'cause I thought it'd be interesting for an animatic to have her tear out his ribcage bc he is a fuckin twig and she's a professional actress.
seriously I still wonder how no cis man in the splatterpunk genre has considered a female revenge story. have her be going after a company that covered up some really bad things or group of people that personally hurt her. or someone she cared about! bc with that you'd get the audience more invested in seeing those people die instead of just disturbed.
for me at least you have to get me hooked to either the idea of a character dying, or get attached to a character so I'm more impacted by their death. but that really only works for things that aren't splatterpunk. or horror in general. things like Percy Jackson are the ones that hit me the most when someone dies.
but if you give me an absolute monster? I'll read the entire thing waiting to see them get their just desserts.
@@TheWonksterseems pretty on par for a cis man who's claim to fame is "I had a child be brutally and slowly murdered."
they always seem to just write their sexual fantasies.... either line by line or sexual fantasies; but violent.
I've only seen one queer splatterpunk writer and unsurprisingly, their books, while pretty mid, didn't contain women being tortured!
only woman I saw who was hurt wasn't physically harmed, she just was in a very toxic master/slave dynamic with her girlfriend who got her fired from her job for not wearing underwear under her skirt at work and had her kill a lizard. (which made the MC girl break up with her. but then came back and her girlfriend then for some reason had her try to get a tapeworm...? which is. ick. but I guess it's better than having her brutally be murdered instead of quickly taking her own life. ...yaaaay?)
and the other one was a fictional character in a book the main character was writing, and her thing wasn't splatterpunk it was sci-fi horror. she was stuck in a time loop. and she was the final girl. I mean she was still stuck but she was and always will be the final girl.
their books aren't GOOD but by lord, compared to the cishet authors? their books look like the Mona Lisa!
The more improbable this story is on an anatomical and medical level, the less it creeped me out because it was so ridiculous.
Fun fact: The fact that Daniel was injured during the last day of the vietnam war makes no sense, why,?, because the US left A MONTH BEFORE, and the last day of the Vietnam War was when tanks rolled into the presidential palace, which almost NO FIGHTING OCCURED, especially any bombardments that would leave Daniel with shrapnel in him.
I seriously need the FBI to search his hard drive. No one just casually thinks this stuff up.
I would like to comment that one can make a rape/revenge story and have it not be a trash fire. Like many things it relates to the people behind it and the real intent of the content. I would say Revenge, American Mary, and Promising Young Woman are all rape/revenge films, all were women directed and all have strong feminist based themes.
yes definitely but most of them are just like "hey let's show everyone how they violate this woman for an hour and then we'll show her cutting their dicks off at the end it'll be so fun everybody will love it" as if that just erases the whole hour of graphic torture. honestly even though i have criticized PYW in the past it's still a much much better r/r story. i have yet to watch others but i've heard revenge being praised A LOT so really excited for that
I also recommend Teeth
I like how your content warning not only includes the blatantly fucked up parts but also such things as "Poopage" and "Robert Downey Jr. slander".
I don't usually make assumptions about an author based on the content of their work... unless there's an unmistakable pattern that crops up.
I don't think I have the Criminal Psychology degree necessary to articulate the picture Aron has painted in my mind of himself.
Vegan Lightning McQueen….
In all seriousness, thank you for reading these atrocious books and explaining them in an enjoyable way, even though they’re disgusting. You’re a saint
“Treed… I am treed…”
I have a copy of this book with the authors signature with a note saying “clean your room” 💀💀
why do you have that 💀
@@jewelxiat curiosity takes us to strange places
that’s kinda funny lol
The way my mouth dropped when you described the end-
The homophobia and transphobia really just JUMPS OUT at you, huh
In fairness gay men have committed some of the most monstrous crimes: Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Nilsen, Bob Berdella, Paul Bateson, Dean Corll granted usually towards other men or children but that's not very splatter punk.
I don’t comment on many RUclips videos but I really enjoy your channel and wanted to let you know that you’re doing a great job! Can’t wait to watch your future videos
thank you so much that really means a lot more than you think ♡
robert downey jr. slander? dood... i'm not sure i can do this...
jesus this channel has every check of 'about to grow like crazy.' awesome breakdown vids, started just as a way to showcase stuff to friends. keep it up, this stuff is gold!
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Yeah its a great point about Desensitization of violence. You need moments of levity to keep your disturbing moments disturbing.
If you want to go on with a really messed up book club type thing
Cows by Matthew Stokoe (its on par with how bad this is maybe worse but id be interested to see you do one of these kinds of videos about it)
Why do i feel like someone should check this man computer...... Having listen to both videos back to back it's too evident that these are his fetish like you said.
Also i wholeheartedly agree on the exploit of SA in the horror/gore comunity wich is why most time i have a hard time enjoying them.
Thanks for sacrificing your in reading these and tell us about it!
I just wanna tell you that you did great with this video, & your way of describing/analyzing the book “Playground” by Aron Beauregard was awesome (I also liked how you used anime images from Spy x Family & Erased to describe the parents & kids of the book, by the way. It was a nice touch) so amazing work my dear❤
This video is actually so validating I’m tired of seeing people on my tiktok fyp promote this persons books like they’re amazing pieces of horror media
Weird question: What's a "fyp"?
@@omegasynth2775 for you page
@@omegasynth2775it means “for you page”! :D
@@omegasynth2775 for you page
@@omegasynth2775 for you page, basically the main feed of tiktok
there is something about the combination of your adorable voice and this horrifying content that hits the sweet spot for me. Keep it up!
this author needs to be on a watch list fr
You give really good writing and character tips, I really liked your point about how people talk slightly differently and how they can show their interests and how certain things can effect a persons way of speech. Cars visuals were PEAK and Im actually obsessed with your videos now lmao, so glad I was recommended ur channel
I don't know about anyone else, but I found the sins part of the video pretty informative. I've never put much thought into giving characters distinct ways of speaking, but that's definitely something I want to improve in my own writing. So thank you for the (probably) unintentional writing advice, Morpho!
I just really love how you seem so done just by your tone of voice 😭
Love the classic trope of ugly = bad and evil. Real classy (heavy sarcasm)
"I knew she would reach through the phone and stuff her wet socks in my mouth"
That is possibly one of the funniest ways I've ever heard of saying "my friend would probably hate me for sharing this with them." 🤣Love that.
Urgh, I'm in desperate need of a book that deconstructs or parodies the Splatterpunk genre after this.
you make THE most entertaining breakdowns of these splatterpunk books... love your videos , you're hilarious ❤
Great work! Another enjoyable watch. I appreciate that you mentioned that there has been no significant improvement in his work between years… Even with two editors? He has poor syntax too, yes? I also think it’s great that you also used more casual or “common” ways to describe how to differentiate characters and develop them by using one’s friends as an example, and that they have different ways and levels of communication or expression. Awesome, awesome. And it’s very intriguing that once again the LGBTQ is oddly the villain but in a way that is definitely not a coincidence.. Interesting.. 🤔 Interesting that the woman characters are all mothers or want to be one. Makes you wonder if Aaron is just blabbering due to the genre by simulating shocking bigotry, or what might actually be his own opinion…. As somebody who has a host with OCD, I found the thing about the main character very strange and seemingly not mentioned by name so that he’s not considered.. “responsible”, for accuracy, as you mentioned.. I agree. -Jared Cox
Oh, another thing: him reusing the shock factors already done by him so clearly is disappointing, and obviously shock that is repeated gets old.. The least one could do, purely in my opinion, (although, of course, no one is for sure obligated to ANYTHING when they create art), is to attempt to create more interesting and inspire non-repetitive disgust in the audience.
he's really not the most creative person when it comes to executing his ideas
@@mainmorpho Agreed.. like jeez.
Ok but the detail of "the gays" near the end of your book recap really stuck out to me because only eggs would say the only way they can be pretty themselves is to eat other girls-ok that didn't sound right- I'm trying to say the "gays" eating girls to be prettier is very trans coded and has a lot of horrific implications in my opinion. That's just me though haha
Edit: Sin #4 flashbanged me with how casually you talked about that book you mentioned with a woman's vagina opening up to another fucking world, you most certainly have to explain/review that book in the future sometime because I refuse to let that go without further information about that gfgfdh
oh yeah that actually makes sense i never even thought about it like that. i hate the ending even more now lol
i absolutely will don't you worry
I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this but I'm really grateful that you put visual character images to go with the names. I'm not good with names and pairing it with the story so it helps a lot
The OCD probably wasn't even researched either, it's just the common misconception of "OCD is being a clean freak!" Which, first of all, OCD isn't seeing something dirty and wanting to clean it. OCD is cleaning something and then, ten minutes later, feeling an intense need to clean it again. And secondly OCD doesn't just manifest as cleanliness. It manifests in other ways, for example, needing to flip a light switch 73 times before leaving a room.
Normally I would forgive this second point, as I understand the cleanliness is to go with the "theme" of the book, but it's so obvious the author is just using the laziest shock value slop he can find that I'm not going to give him any leeway.
All I can say throughout this whole review was that "yeah this is a book", I couldn't tell you how much I wanted to tap out, but being sucked back in because of how horrible and edgy this book truly is, it's like watching a terrible car crash and then that car catching on fire with the person inside and all you can hear is just the screams and you're just there standing there watching it all unfold and no matter how much you want to look away you just can't.
perfectly described my feeling
That’s why Splatterpunk is so good (sometimes). Some people just can’t handle liking it, based on the rest of the comment section here.
@@DeathnoteBB nah this is just edgelord shit.
Very much loved both of your videos, this author very much feels like the Marquis De Sade, only without his witty and provocative humor nor his incredible (if very questionable) philosophycal knowledge
I'm so happy you posted again!
If you're looking for something a bit different to make videos on, I think Gothic horror sounds like an interesting genre to break down - could be a good palate cleanser.
Otherwise, if you want to keep it more violent, I'd be interested in hearing a review of a book that a famous horror movie is based off, like Jurassic Park, Silence of the Lambs or American Psycho.
But I'm down for the more obscure books if that's more interesting to you (:
oohh yeah i love gothic horror. i have yet to try a lot of the popular gothic authors of this century so good idea thank you
Has anyone here mentioned how strong Vera's womb is? It's like fucking steel!
I am an SA survivor with OCD, and I am blown away by how accurately you described how a person with OCD would normally think and act in Vera’s position
So happy to see my comment at the beginning ❤
Btw, your voice is so cute and soothing, which even made the disgusting story feel like a bedtime story 😂 I'm quite intrigued by the extreme horror genre, but can't handle reading them firsthand. Glad I found your channel.
You really deserve all the appreciation ❤
thank you so much you are once again very kind ♡
I know I’m late to the party here and I almost never comment on RUclips videos but I just wanted to say how beautifully you phrased the last part about SA in horror media. You voiced something I’ve been thinking about for a while so astutely and eloquently. Thank you.
"super turbo disgusting people do bad things, then die." Also one-liners.
This isn't horror, this is goof-a-thon cause its less realistic than Gandalf falling with Balrog then coming back as white version of himself yet its written as realistic horror or something.
Your videos are just delightful. The juxtaposition of the cute images you show while talking about such disgusting subject matter in your sweet little voice is such an experience. Your dry sense of humor is *chef's kiss* and the icing on the cake. If you want something really gross that doesn't take too much time, read Eric the Pie. It's free online, posted by the author himself. But I honestly wish I hadn't read it, it made me ill.
You know, I've enjoyed plenty of violent/gory media before (some of my favorite horror media is body horror stuff like John Carpenter's The Thing, or the manga of Junji Ito), but everything I hear about Aron Beauregard's work just turns me off in a way I can't quite articulate.
Good body horror gets under your skin because it distorts the human form in a disturbing way, or because you can imagine what the actions feel like. A lot of the really hard to watch scenes are because we can imagine ourselves in that situation. It’s like how it’s really hard to watch someone’s fingernails get pulled off, you can just *feel* it, but seeing someone attacked with a chainsaw doesn’t really get you in the gut, you can’t imagine what that’s like.
Beauregard’s stuff is shocking yes, but you don’t feel a connection at all to the violence, you can’t feel it and it has no underlying meaning
Yooo! The weird female voiced youtube channel with good humor and acceptable editing skills is BACK!!!
pls acceptable editing skills made me snort like a pig 💀
So very glad to see this. And so very glad to hear the comment at the end that you will explore other authors. Really hoping that this does become an ongoing series of horror book clubs. I have come up with a few more suggestions that are actually extreme disturbing like what you have here, but are actually well written and not dumpster fires, though both are mangas. Happy Sugar Life and Ichi the Killer. Ichi the Killer was made into a film and Happy Sugar Life was made into an anime, but both started as mangas and the manga version of both would work great here. Really good reads. Please keep this series up!
i didn't realize ichi was a manga adaptation i should get on that. happy sugar life is a cute title but i guess not 😀
@@mainmorpho Happy Sugar Life revolves around a pedophile that has kidnapped a 6 year old child. You see the story from the pedophile's point of view and as such what she is doing is presented in a positive, even romantic way that is full of goodness, which is why it has the title it does. Of course this is all a lie she is telling herself as the story makes it more and more clear as it goes on and you see just how evil and dangerous she is.
well fucking hell
@@echedp8903wow that sounds really well-thought-out and complex… unlike whatever the fuck Aron Beauregard thought he was doing
@@rkivelover if you mean Happy Sugar Life, yes it is. Obviously I'm not sure how much I can recommend it. Luckily there is no rape scene of the 6 year old. In the story the pedophile, Satou, is heavily suggested to be asexual. One of her talking points that she uses to defend her actions is that she is not sexually assaulting the child(but she is kidnapping them, manipulating them, gas lighting them, treating them as an adult(expecting them to act like an adult in a romantic based relationship) and it just goes on like this). So luckily there is no actual rape of the child, though other characters are raped(Satou, being a pedophile, kind of hangs around and interacts with all kinds of horrible people.) Of course having to read a full story of the most evil being telling you why they aren't evil can be a lot to process it is still a great story.
The book that sold Slobillion copies 👀
A comment of incredible taste. The thoughts of a true connoisseur.
@@darkflame2554a true connoisslob
Hmmm. Gay villan trope can be good. But it’s not in Bouregard’s books.
Also the homophobia and transphobia and. Fear of not-cishet things. just. dude
The illustrations at the beginning of each chapter reminds me of scholastic books funnily enough. Makes me think the pictures were probably inserted by the publisher without input from the author/editors, that's probably how it happened.
I just stumbled upon this and now im fascinated by splatterpunk as a genre and giving it literary analysis! The slob is something i wouldn't want to read on it's own because of how its written tone-wise and the way the author fetishizes the edginess of it, but the baseline concepts of a murderer that is representative of the protagonist's childhood trauma and an antithesis of their core values is a cool concept for a book! And the final idea of her realizing that her husband was also a symptom of the same ideologies that forced her into the situations that she ended up in because he views her as dirty and unlovable despite her survival and him being a supportive husband previously is something deeply saddening and is a good commentary on how misogyny continuously retraumatizes those impacted by it is such a solid ending for a book with those themes... And then she got pregnant again. I think the author doesn't understand how vaginas work despite him being a guy that writes about vaginal trauma quite a lot...
Another similarity I noticed between this book and Playground was the usage of what I assume we, the audience, are supposed to think is a badass one liner when the villain is defeated
Playground:
Geraldine: But I'm your mother!
Rock: And I'm a mother fucker!
lmao what!? 😂
The Slob:
"You are what you eat"
The second one isn't quite as cringeworthy, but it still sounds really dumb in context
oh yeaahh it seems like "badass one liners" is just a thing used a lot in these books not even just this author
Glad to see this channel taking off; the playground video was great!
I loved your insights on the realities of SA and revenge in everyday life vs how they are portrayed in fiction. A poignant but easily understood explanation that I appreciate immensely!
The moment you brought up Vera was a door-to-door vacuum saleswoman, I knew exactly where this was going.
13:25 In the words of Weird Al Yankovic, "Aw, man, I hate it when I'm right!" 😫
I was wondering where the homophobia was gonna come in and then... wow. Wow, just wow that just... holy fuckin hell man.
bro squeezed that in last minute. you dont even see it coming and then boom it just sucker punchs you
Your commentary and breakdown is so entertaining and hilarious! You are now the only person I trust when it comes to the splatterpunk genre.
I am honestly thoroughly convinced that Aron Beauregard is actually just three edgy 13 year olds wearing a trenchcoat because this is some childish writing for someone that is supposedly an adult. He's just throwing around these serious and heavy topics all willy nilly like he just heard about them for the first time.
edit: The examples you provided of his writing also reads like he has started to write for the first time too. 100% 13 year old in a trenchcoat wearing a fake mustache.
I had to pause my knitting at part3, because it was so funny. It was hilarious how you started off chill and collected and then went full on "this sucked, get better" (and honestly, I can't can't blame you).
38:45 as a victim of s/a, THANK YOU exactly my thoughts
Genuinely just finished watching playground video and good LORD you are literally one of my fav book reviewers now I love your deadpan humour so much it’s such a delight to listen to you pick apart dumb bad books
I guess, it was the slobs we made along the way
Nvm this joke sucks, like wtf is this book,
Came across this channel randomly. And its hella enjoyable
I feel like you could make a prejudice bingo and win with this book. Fatphobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism against the mentally ill... dingdingding! nobody's a winner.
oh yeaaaahhh hr definitely has a list of things he checks off for every book he writes
came to hear about some disgusting shenanigans and stayed for your extremely well put thoughts on exploitative torture porn like that was just 11/10, perfectly sums up of this kind of "stories" makes me feel
great vid, great pacing, your editing is awesome and makes this way easier to digest, i hope you'll get to read some good books soon 👌
I don't got the time to read these disturbing stories so the way you're presenting them is refreshing. Keep at it and you're going to get millions of subscribers in no time
This book has come across the Audible suggestion scroll on my facebook, and I assumed it was fetish porn. Listening to your video has convinced me that I'm pretty close in my assumption... but only by half. Thank you for subjecting yourself to this so others can get a taste and decide if they want to swallow crap and read it or spit out crap and just sit with the foul flavor left by just knowing.
I'm a huge fan of splatterpunk and extreme horror but given how short most of them are I can't really bring myself to buy the books or use a credit on audible so getting these recaps is great
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