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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Today I’m reviewing what is easily the worst book I’ve ever reviewed on this channel, Winkler by Giles Coren - a book which has literally won awards for how bad it is.
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In today's edition of 'Everything That Can Go Wrong Is Going Wrong': Apparently the last 20 minutes of my video didn't export or upload the first time around so here we are with attempt 2! I'm sorry. I don't know why this has happened, I should have caught it sooner but hopefully you can enjoy this one. Thank you all for your patience ♥
No need to apologize. It's all good
I thought I was going crazy when it cut off in the middle of your sentence lol 😂
I'm having a day too. Sending good vibes and love your way.
Life happens and technology is fickle, just happy to watch an amazing video by one of my favourite youtubers! No need to apologise or beat yourself up,you've been dealing with a lot lately. Be kind to yourself, go cuddle Kyra 💕
@@Tacosswiftme too! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was me! 😅
When I was in uni I was flatmates with a girl whose cousin was dating Giles. When they split up his next restaurant review focused solely on how beautiful the waitress was and how much they flirted and blah blah woof woof and I feel like that tells you all you need to know about Mr Coran.
He made tweets happy a journalist who once wrote he got where he was because who his dad was over his talent and he deleted them but I don’t think he ever apologised for it.
I figured he got the book published because he was a rich prick 🤔👍
@@debbiemckeown7626I don’t think he even deleted him, he edited “fuck off to hell where you belong” to “HA HA HA”. He also lied and said she insulted his family when she only insulted him, and even that was just correctly pointing out his nepotism
You mean, “…they flirted and blam blam blamity blamity…”
date stupid dudes win stupid prizes
You can tell that the book is fiction because people are overjoyed to be English.
💀 😂
Went down here to say the exact same thing lmao
LMFAO 🤣
I have only hear from English that England is just a massive parody of a country at this point so...
Yea that is a big giveaway 😅
@@crowdemon_archives discussed pretty much the same thing with my Brummie professor when i did my master's in australia. even he looked baffled and our field is culture, lol. 😭
As an American, I don't even understand the insistence of "you've never played cricket in your life". Like I'm pretty sure he's never played Lacrosse and yet I would not write that ridiculous kind of intro about it if a character was playing the game.
It’s the fact he immediately insults the reader that’s so weird to me
Yeah, most people don't even know what a water polo ball looks like, but that doesn't make me better than them
@WhiteWolf-lm7gj I've just looked that up... they look supremely grippy. Cool sport 👍🏻
You never oaraskied in your life?
I can imagine a better book apologising for opening with a cricket game and lamenting that so many people are forced to play it in their youth.
The dehumanizing of every single category of human being is truly horrific, but something about the way this man just loathes women and fat people is absolutely reprehensible.
I mean, this is the guy who wrote a suspiciously-pedophilic article about going on vacation with his then-3-year-old daughter (who is 12 now and I seriously hope she's okay)
Does Coren think blind people are deaf too? Because every one of the disgusting things he thinks men will do to her and the disgusting thing he does are things someone would HEAR.
Also smell. Those things have distinctive smells.
I mean. It does track with this mans "I only think in stereotypes" model.
My pet theory is Giles has to employ gratuitous commas so he can fit multiple forms of bigotry into each sentence
You might be onto something
Good one! You are definitely a positive thinker, I had put it down to being him being so ignorant but I much prefer your theory 😂😂
This is some of the most deranged psychopathic writing I’ve ever heard. Even worse than Onision’s books, somehow. I was struggling the whole time to understand the point of this book because it’s all over the place. Instead of a solid plot, it’s just chapters of nauseating garbage and pointless insane rambling, leading to nowhere. I would love a video where you’re happily discussing a book you love as a cleanse after this filth.
30:30 Twelve Angry Men is a wonderful film example of 'nothing much happens but SO much happens.' One room, hours in it, and there's little to no action. Except in all that dialogue, interplay, and expression... We've learnt so much about the people, bias judgements, internalised societal attitudes, peer pressure influence, conviction, and justice (or lack thereof.)
I watched it recently and was blown away at how much I learnt from just a bunch of men sitting around a table.
I want to watch
Oh god yes. It's a masterpiece.
We studied this for English while I was in high school and it’s says so much without saying a lot or their being much action. I adore it
Its basically a theatric play about a court jury so well done. With acountinmg bias and thematic how people face how they project o3wn experiences on the case, to the ladst stubbern juror that refused to listen to anything. Its bloody brilliant. And that one joror basivcally being a detective poking holes on peoples perceptions while letting them talk.
YESSSSS I'm so glad whenever someone brings it up, it's absolutely amazing :)
This book tells a lot about who Giles Coren is as a person and it's terrifying. All that hatred had to come from somewhere.
This "novel" has to be the most compelling argument for why nepotism is bad, actually. TALENT ISN'T AN INHERITED TRAIT.
I can't believe you made it through this vile trash, Rachel. I felt your pain in this video.
It must be embarrassing for Victoria and David 'are we the baddies?' Mitchell to call this man family.
He’s related to David Mitchell??
@@AmyAberrant Giles Coren is Victoria Coren-Mitchell’s brother and David Mitchell’s brother-in-law.
Oh, wow, cringe. But.. um, well, David is posh after all 😄😄
@@hungrypiano9302god imagine having this man as your brother in law
When Winkler was hearing that story; I kept forgetting that he was supposed to be in his 30s or 40s. He kept sounding like he was about 15.
I have a fifteen-year-old brother who is a million times more civilized, more in touch with reality, and more productive than Winkler. He's also far less edgy and inappropriate. So I don't think Winkler sounds fifteen; every fifteen-year-old I've everk known was leagues better than him. I think he just sounds like an absolute jackass. And I think that might be an insult to donkeys.
Wow... WOW. How did this get published? Who read this and thought, "Yes, this will sell, the world needs to see this"? I don't normally think people should be arrested for the books they write, but officer, this man right here
The fact that your userpic appears to be Jesus makes your comment even better. XD
I reiterate: _that_ this book was written is now beyond reasonable doubt, but _why_ it was written is now beyond reasonable explanation.
"The problem is, the journey is absolute crap." 😁🔥
I was doubtful you’d found a book worse than Debi Pearl’s foray into fiction, but I’ve clearly been disproven. There are no words. 🤮
It can and will always get worse
This cricket paragraph really feels like an author writing to an american audience insisting wed know nothing of football, that none of us wouldve played it, when its so popular flag football is often a required part of elementary and middle school PE (atleast where I lived). I have to imagine cricket is the english equivalent to that
Pretty much. You're kind of similarly indated with it, but to a lesser degree than soccer which is everywhere all year round - my dad didn't care for the English cricket tournaments, but loved watching the Indian cricket in the Summer when it was on (I think Channel 4 showed it?).
The accent thing is funny because my parents are from North East America but I was born down south. So I'll sometimes drop t's in things, but also make horrific words like y'all've
"y'all've seen that. It ain't surprising"
@@SaigesArstgo1031Shouldn’t’ve is an amazing word
To be fair I have never played it and know nothing of it lol
I think sport in general isn't as big in England as it is in America, but everyone knows about cricket same as everyone knows about golf and croquet.
Can’t wait for the day you discover Empress Theresa. *rubs hands together menacingly*
Yes! I've hinted at it in comments before but on the other hand, I'm not sure I actually want Rachel to subject herself to that kind of pain...
oh nooooo
One one hand I would love to hear Rachel's thoughts on that... let's be generous and call it a "book".
On the other hand, I do want her to not subject herself to that. It is just terrible on every conceivable level.
Yesssss , but to be fair, empress theresa mois probably more interesting how weird it is. And boring, but also very strange@@GloomyFish
A three hour video taking down this terrible book? Rachel, you're my companion for this working day. Thankyou for your sacrifice 🤣
I admit, I used to watch The Supersizers (with Giles Coren and Sue Perkin) here on RUclips. Had no idea he also wrote a (very bad) novel.
I immediately recognized him from the memes about the bad sex scene award. I'm sat with my popcorn for this one.
Hey Rach to be honest I only started watching your Chanel to get a different view on my opinions and then it turned out that we didn’t actually have anything really that we disagree on, that was a massive shocker to me, you do create fantastic content and am happy to be apart of this community you created
Nothing to disagree on? Do you know that Rachel hates Avocados? 🥑😎
I love that you focus on other writers who do similar things to Coran better. It gives me a lot to think about when it comes to writing, with both good and bad examples. Good stuff!
EDIT: you know, I’d be willing to forgive a lot more of the unsympathetic narrator if he didn’t suspiciously share exactly the voice of Giles Coren in all his nasty tweets on his Wikipedia page.
2:26:08 This clip is pretty helpful, because I didn't know anything about Giles. He's literally just so awful. I kept thinking maybe the book was meant to be a sort of sad sack loser character that we're supposed to hate, but that gets some kind of cummupence, but no, if Giles really thinks the women at his school who didn't want to do doggy style are too blame for his bad technique, I can see what you're saying that this is probably genuinely how Giles feels. I did laugh out loud at that, though.
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it." Maurice Switzer
I said this under the last upload, but his writing reminds me so much about onisions books. Also, if english bording schools are anything like fancy danish bording schools seem to be, then all the racism, sexism, sa ext. absolutly checks out.
I heard a story somewhere that at one of the English boarding schools, the school bullies held a kid over the fireplace and nearly dropped him in (he did get burns but didn’t get dropped, thankfully). Does that happen in Danish ones?
@@d_alistair-years most of what I’ve heard is more like SA and beatings. That’s so fucked up, tho.
This character sounds like what men who are obsessed with patrick bateman aspire to be
43:45 I'm convinced he wrote this whilst doing NaNoWriMo and was trying to hit the 50k word count. His word garble feels like what I cranked out at 10 PM just to hit 1,667 words before the night closed.
Thank you for making the sacrifice to read this nightmare and I am so sorry that you did. I don't understand how the author is an author/writer as a job and how this book was ever published. It sounded so pretentious while also being so clunky. Who even published this?
Even his food info is wrong! Rabbits aren't rodents. They're not a poor *or* Black thing (US), mostly on posh French & Spanish menus. Hunting/eating small game is more a cultural thing in some mountain or woodsy regions because plentiful, cheap, & fun for some.
I know, _shocking_ that Coren is talking out his arse, except you'd think he'd AT LEAST know food! If he weren't such a talentless hack, I'd think maybe it was deliberate, like showing character ignorance. But nah, it's just pathetic.
Unrelated: *thank you* Rachel for NOT popping off with hot takes about complicated issues. Nobody can have a wise, nuanced, helpful opinion about everything. I wish more people would admit when we lack enough knowledge to form one. Your approach strengthens your credibility when being passionate about things you do know & believe in.
Empress Theresa, Felsic Current, Maradonia and the Seven Bridges, and The Forensic Certified Public Accountant and the Cremated 64-Squares Financial Statements might technically be worse from a writing standpoint, but that arguably imbues them with a kind of innocent and endearing charm. This guy could stand to take his own advice about not just going with your first thought, and would benefit from even a dollop of the impostor syndrome that is no doubt holding back some genuinely-brilliant undiscovered writer somewhere.
I am not familiar with the titles you mentioned however I would rather read the telephone directory than this piece of 💩
64 Squares changed my brain chemistry (also, hello other possible 372 pages enjoyer)
Well. This sure was a first draft that didn’t need to be a book.
*And then it got worse.*
YES. At first I thought the writing was bad, but there were a few phrases here and there that could have been saved by a good editor. Then the racism started, and it somehow just kept getting worse.
Oh good lord that sucked so, so, so, so much! I could feel Rachel's frustration physically in my own body. I will never be able to get the half a day that it took me to get through the video back, and I can't imagine how Rachel feels having actually read this shit. Just wow. Also, as a blind woman, I'm thoroughly offended, but I bet that if I fell into literally any other demographic I would be as well. I feel like I need therapy now. In comparison to this, all CoHo books are masterpieces and all her characters are absolute angels who are totally relatable. The perspective I have gained.
I love coming here to feel better about my writing. It may be bad (though the artist is always the most critical), but at least I didn't write this :)
Take great pride in not being the loser who wrote winkler.
Pretty sure the realisation that I didn’t write this crap cured my depression and writers block :)))
What a horrible book! Thank you for putting yourself through all of that for us!
No
I was surprised Rachel didn't say "everywhere, a blam,blam."
Old Giles Coren wrote a book, ee-aye-ee-aye-oh,
And in that book he wrote some shite, ee-aye-ee-aye-oh,
With a blam blam here and a blam blam there,
Here a blam, there a blam, everywhere a blam blam.
@@Sableagle That's what I'm SAYIN' XD
Wow a 3hr video can't wait to sit down and watch all of this I love terrible books and terrible games and movies to
Absolutely brilliant review of an absolutely horrific book🙏 Seriously, I was watching your video while painting and I constantly had to pause, rewind and listen again because I could not believe that this book was written the way it is! 😱 shockingly bad and thoroughly in poor taste...
Hope you have recovered from your cold and this nightmare of a book!
As an American who’s very familiar with circumcision, the data, and history on it, it is understood that it significantly decreases sensitivity in men. I’m happy that you agree that it is a gross violation of a person’s consent, just as FGM, and I agree that there are many variations (including the most common form) of FGM that objectively do more harm, but I don’t agree with the analogy of a scrape on the elbow. There are still complications and deaths that occur in America from circumcision, fewer, but still too many. And when it comes to the loss of sensitivity, not all circumcisions are equal, which I’m happy to see you also understood, but for many, any loss of sensitivity is too much to forgive, it can be the difference of a still satisfying but diminished intimate experience, and feeling greatly desensitized, unable to orgasm comfortably, or at all, etc. These are taboo experiences that are accepted in the U.S. as just “normal.” The U.S. has a much higher proportional rate of STDs than the UK, despite us having over 80% of boys circumcised. The cleanliness argument incorrectly assumes that the male prepuce, which is self-cleaning like a woman’s, will somehow spread STDs easier. It’s really a load of garbage. I do appreciate you acknowledging that there is a harm, and I do agree with you that FGM causes more harm, I don’t like that it seems whenever I hear that sentiment it is usually used by other Americans to diminish this problem that continues to harm male-bodied individuals.
I think that the reason circumcision is spoken about more is not for a misogynist purpose but because of our situation in the U.S. it is the one that most of us westerners are most exposed to. Although recent immigrations from the Middle East seem to have spread more awareness of FGM and its prevalence which is certainly a step forward.
All of this, but also -- it actually makes s€x less enjoyable for women, too.
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(1) The loss of the f0reskin is a loss of a stimulator for the woman when penetrated (there's a reason why "textured/ribbed for her pleasure" is a thing in many condom ads; a man is supposed to come with his own texture/ribbing but he gets robbed of it).
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(2) The desensitization a man experiences from the procedure, the constant friction on now-unprotected skin (imagine having your unaroused c1it constantly cheese-grated through your underwear by the rough material of your practically mandatory American-uniform of denim jeans), or both is part of why so many "jack-hammer" their way through intercourse.
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They're trying to stimulate somewhat (or greatly) numbed pleasure-sensing nerves... much to a lot of women's *displeasure.*
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So really, no one and nothing is served by this practice. And it's not like most men in America are even dedicated followers (by choice or cultural family practice) of a strict Hewbrew traditional church. So there's truly not one real reason for it to continue to be done, let alone as prevelently as it is.
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[The numering and use of symbols in certain words above is because idk if they're yt censor auto-flag-and-delete-comment words or not. Sometimes even medical terms get tagged, sometimes not, who knows.]
(Typo - "numbering")
New 3 hour book review R oates video? Is this? The best surprise? Ever? Thank god
"I'm not a baddie" * cut to Giles's brother-in-law in his most famous sketch *
😂Excellent. No notes.
Oh wow. Yeah. This book is like if someone collected all the different ways in which a book can be bad, mashed them all together and voila. The murderscene of the fat lady was absolutely horrific, all of the fatphobia, truly disgusting and I cannot see how this isn't something that reflects on the author, as you said throughout, I would never want to be near him with all of the horrific creepy sexist thoughts that are in this book.
Just 44 seconds into this video and oh no. Oh no oh no oh no. I know of this book. This is the book with The Scene in it.
Also, fun fact, this is the guy who once threw a huge tantrum because an editor had the audacity to actually edit his writing.
Hey, at least his run-on sentences will make my brain lose enough oxygen to pass out and we can all avoid reading this.
I really encourage you to educate yourself on what is happening in Palestine. Audiences are not asking people with platforms to educate and speak in detail about global politics. But it is important for people with a platform to stand in solidarity with a group of people who are actively being ethnically cleansed. It is uncomfortably ironic that you speak on this book and (rightfully) criticize the way it speaks about the genocide but you speak so noncommittally about a genocide that is happening right now, a genocide being funded by our countries. I hope you reconsider how you speak on this. It is not a war. A war necessitates two militaries. It is an ethnic cleansing.
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I mean, ethnic cleansing can only occur in a war, nor does war require two militaries. The point I think you really wanted to make is that it’s just bad at the baseline 😂
@@warlordofbritanniaethnic cleansings do not require a war. what makes you think they do?
I was at the 2 hour and 2 minute mark when this 2nd upload appeared. Welp, I've been tortured by this book for the last 2 hours, so why not go through an extra hour of torture. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to publish this trashy book?
Okay, I haven't finished watching this video entirely, but have something that I want to say here:
I'm one of those people who looks into bad media as a hobby. Bad movies, books, games, the works. In the hour that I've listened to this so far, I think this might be the single worst book I've ever heard of. It's a perfect storm of incredibly uninteresting and utterly rage inducing. Somehow, this book is even more unpleasant than books by Onision because at least there's ironic enjoyability there and it's an interesting look at how Greg views himself. This though? It just seems like a cesspool of hatred.
Please Rachel, take the rest of the week to take care of yourself. You deserve it after reading this thing.
THIS BOOK is where the "shower nozzle" excerpt came from?? I didn't know this was going to be a history lesson, I remember laughing my ass off over that with my friends.
Am I crazy or did the beginning of this book say he was supposed to be a hero??
I kind of hate Giles Coren just from reading his Wikipedia entry. Only about a third of the way through this video, but it is only confirming my suspicion that he is essentially just an awful person.
Well that's dissappointing. He was so good in Supersizers Go (that historical food show with Sue Perkins that Rachel mentioned).
@@MissCaraMint the Supersizers was a treat but really it was just the Sue Perkins show with Giles as eye candy
@@storageheater I mean he did give Sue plenty of material to work with.
That run-on sentence at 1:57:17 was just. wow.
how in the world did this get published
Fabulous video. I appreciate how you explain to the viewers about same words and different meanings etc. I think that there are many like Giles Coren in terms of attitudes but at least we know about his bigotry. As you say how did that book ever get published?!
I find it really funny that Rachel was like
‘I am not using a slur, it’s a homonym. I am using it in the context of a cigarette.’
when the slur literally came from the fact that gay people were rolled up into carpets and burned like cigarettes 😭
not that I’m particularly mad or anything. I just find it kind of funny.
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing this book so that we don't have to 😂😂
Saturday night is definitely going on my reading list. 😊
Thank you so so much for your hard work ❤ Absolutly love your content. ❤ Hopefully, you get some rest and cuddles with Kyra
Thank you again 😊
i felt similarly as you felt about nick hornby's writing of football as Fredrik Backman's 'Beartown' hockey series - SO so good
I haven't read this book... but I STILL feel like I'm owed emotional damages from Coren for just the excerpts you read out. As a fat disabled trans person - I do not think I'd feel safe to be within MILES of that man. The way he writes about how Winkler wasn't bad in his choice of victim as if he was trying to CONVINCE the reader or that the reader would automatically agree with "such a reasonable assertion". The number of times I literally retched listening to you read bits out (I have a strong stomach Rachel. I can eat while watching medical procedure videos on this website. THIS - this book made me retch). The book wasn't just not worth what he has earned in advance and royalties (if it sold well enough to get royalties) - he owes the english speaking and reading world recompense.
I am halfway through the video... and feel like trapped in some kind of insane misantropic fever dream. How is ANY of this REAL ?!?
_HOW ???!!?_
I kinda wish I was just having hardcore hallucinations right now. That "book" is insufferable. Poor Rachel man, really took one for the team with this montrosity.
that word you guys use in the UK to mean cigarette is also the name for a type of embroidery stitch, had to do a double take when i found it in my stitch book
3:55 Could just be hubris where he assumes his book will be an international hit.
i HATE how terribly this is written! my town is half jewish & i’ve actually heard jewish kids (specifically teenagers) say unfortunately similar things in class as the main character. i think this could’ve been touched on in amazing way, about learning how to respect your own history/culture when it’s been demonized. i want to emphasize ive NEVER heard comments like this outside of being 13-15 😭
just reached the 2hour mark... god this book really is awful! Winkler is completely irredeemable imo
You are incredibly brave and strong for sitting through this filth
I had to listen to this one double speed to make it through
Thank you for taking one for the team.
"Teeth! No!" Thank you Rachel. That's not sexy; it's stressful.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is actually a book written by an author from my country - we learned about this book and Milan Kundera (the auhor) so many times. But none of us ever read it. Fun fact - in original its called Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí.
Just though I would meantion it, every time someone talks about something from my country. Great video, I'm really enjoying it :)
I read Maus a few months ago, and what an amazing read it was! Super dark and hard to get through, but very important. I then tried reading Maus II, and I simply wasn’t able to get through it. It was too much for me. I tried so hard to get through it because educating myself is important, but gods is that book too well written. Couldn’t recommend it more but be ready for a very difficult read
2:37:33 okay she can definitely smell and hear him, this poor woman is probably pretending not to know what he's doing to avoid escalating the situation. This is a horror story wth
That butterfly(?) top is gorgeous!! I love a bright print
Two lines in I knew I wasn't interested in ever reading this book, a paragraph in (thank goodness Rachel was reading/narrating as it's so badly written it becomes distracting 😂. Recap of book finished, I loathe the author for using every stereotype about everything, detest him for being racist, misogynistic and pretentious. Being a bit of a grammar obsessive freak, I just want to send him a free subscription to grammarly 😂😂😂 Definitely not one for my reading wishlist. Thank you Rachel for this video, you saved me from wasting precious toilet reading time (this is exactly the kind of literature that ends up in the guest loo!!! ) ❤
You know, knowing nothing about Giles beforehand I could maybe have bought the idea of “this is just him writing a deliberately awful person and then saying he’s actually relatable to get a rise out of people for the publicity”. But then you played that clip of him just vomiting out every MRA/incel talking point, and that idea went screaming out the window.
“If women actually found funny men sexy I’d have had more sex” we’re attracted to funny men, Giles, you’re just not fucking funny.
If this book is an example of what he thinks being funny is, I’m not surprised, either. I know multiple guys who are short, average looking, make average sort of money, but who have never been single for more than a few months, and it’s because they’re actually decent guys who are also funny as fuck, they’re just not spewing out this twelve-year-old 4edgy8me 4chan sort of nonsense.
11:36 I... What the hell is this book...
I figured it out. The blind girl scenario tells me this is fetish content. All of this is fetish content and he thought he was slick
Your description of this book makes me think of the game disco elisium the main character in the game has areas of their psyche that can be changed over the game by the players actions. An early challenge can be overcome by listening to a racist npcs lesson on race and players who do this realise later they shot themselves in the foot because he internalised that thought and him being racist damages his relationship with his fellow main character
This is so random but I am so curious to hear what you'd think of the writings of Daniil Kharms who was a writer during The Great Terror in the Soviet Union. He was a wacky guy and this poems and stories are.. interesting? And many were not written to be published and was just random creations from his inner thoughts.
Amazing how you can make a terrible book bearable to listen
I am convinced this book was supposed to be called Wanker.
The way this guy writes his sentences, it's like I'm trying to read the Declaration of Independence. Needless to say, what he's trying to portray in those sentences... reads like the exact opposite.
I knew this was going to be something when I saw the name Giles Coren. As a big Supersizers Go fan, even though that show was normal, he'd definitely be in my top 3 "British Men Who Just Say Anything". Morrissey would also be one of those top 3.
There's a description of a cricket match in Dorothy Sayers' book Murder Must Advertise, part of the Peter Wimsey series of mystery novels. As far as I know, it does not weigh on the solution to the mystery (as in, the score and plays don't reveal the murderer as a puzzle like the bridge scores in Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table), it's just a bit of scene setting, character illustration, and a bit of plot.
As an American, I know nothing about cricket
The passage is written in such a way that I could comprehend the import of what was going forth in intensive play-by-play description (if not the specifics), and also that I could feel and get invested in the tension and the mood of the teams and the crowd. Even with having to keep track of a large cast of characters all identified by last names only, the things they were doing illustrated their characters and set a stage for lots of development during that scene, while the game flowed at an exciting pace. You can do it for sure, without condescending to the British or cutting out those who aren't familiar with the sport.
I really don't want to remember that, Rachel! Please don't make me! Oh, God, what have you found?! I'm also so sorry you know how to read. Hope the psychic damage wasn't too much. 😮 Why is this man allowed in public?!
This sounds like if Onision tried to write American Psycho.
Also, huge missed opportunity (one among many) by having the girlfriend being Irish and not using that as an opening to reflect on how the side of his heritage the character relates to more is the one that represents an oppressor and not the oppressed, but that sounds like actual character exploration
I like to think this awful writing is hope for all of us writers who want to get published but are filled with self doubt… but then I remember this person is rich and was probably handed a publishing deal.
This sounds like a failed attempt to write a new American Psycho
I feel like he was trying to go for an American Psycho “seemingly normal business guy is secretly a horrible monster” type thing but missed the part where American Psycho is a fucking satire and you are NOT supposed to like Bateman or agree with his actions. Bateman is NOT the hero of the story, nor are we ever told to sympathize with him or think of him highly in any real way that’s not just his own narcissism. It just comes off like “here’s a terrible guy with no redeeming qualities. Isn’t he so great and cool and special”. A big point in AP is Batemans unreliable narration, how he thinks he’s so great when he’s obviously pure evil. The first person perspective with the one break towards the end shows this really well. But in this book, Winkle not only thinks highly of himself, but the narrator of the book ALSO wants us to like him which just feels like the author is openly endorsing his thoughts and actions.
I can’t believe you read this, Rachel. You deserve some serious compensation. 😂
I enjoy your content so, so much! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication!
I'm at the forty eight minute mark in the video, and the plot STILL HASN'T STARTED!!
How does a Jewish person manage to write their protagonist with so much eugenecist language while directly linking it to the Holocaust and then, ultimately, not showing any commupence or condemnation of the character?
If he was a better author you could argue that they were letting the reader draw their own conclusions. Maybe he thinks he's a good enough author, but he isn't.
Also, speaking as someone who also struggles to use a full stop instead of a comma this screams "first draft" to me.
Also did he kind of imply the whole "jewish people work together to cover up each other's crimes" conspiracy theory?!?! Because it seems to work that way in this world.
Basically his world's inconsistent. His protagonist is awful and there's an occasional bit that implies that Coren is aware of it (like the firing), but also the world kind of works bybthe logic that is used by his protagonist, so i really don't know. 🤷🤦🤷
Can't believe I listened to this whole video in one sitting😂
You can't believe you took the amount of time to do this😮
this man read vonnegut once and said “i bet i could do that”
The 'heroism' chapter genuinely made sick to my stomach, the author needs is a sick man
If there was an Nobel Prize for bigotry, Giles' face would be on it.
I thought you were joking about the blamity blams...I am so sorry you did this for us.😢 But I do love hearing your comments and suggestions...😊
It’s all awful, but the part about the blind woman made me physically sick. Who is this book for?
omg this is the book "like zorro" came from??? lmaooooo
This is in fact the worst book I have ever heard of. I don’t know how it is still in print. Glad you made it through. This video kept me company doing chores today!
The disgusting nature of this book reminds me of one that traumatized a generation of Spanish teens, because we it was a MANDATORY READ. It revolved around the crimes of a p**ophile and murderer and was EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. More than a decade later I still remember passages vividly. Hands down the most disgusting book I've ever read
You were forced to read this as a teen??
@@AmyAberrantNo. From the sounds of it they had to read lolita. Or a book like Lolita
A similar thing happened to me when I was 14 reading a book my teacher recommended. It had a super graphic, horrifying pedophilic scene in the middle. Like completely out of nowhere w absolutely no warning. I don’t have an issue w the scene itself, more so the fact it was recommended to literal children w no caution
If winkler was slowly turned to an extremist who lashed out purely for perceived glory and hero/avenging angel coplex which would make sense why he’s “seen” as a hero in the story have it switch to another character who slowly watched winkler turn from a slimy self important ass down the slippery slope of violent mass murder as a warning to the reader the importance of not falling into the extremist mindset
i was actually watching the original upload when i got the notification for this haha
I keep trying to watch this video but I always end up falling asleep around 30 minutes in. Thanks I guess Giles? The book was so boring that I literally cannot stay awake to hear Rachel's review. Incredible.
Sorry you had a hard time uploading, but really looking forward to watching this one!
On the first upload I commented: I'm assuming we'll get some "womanwritten by a man" masterpieces in this book...
Boy, was I right