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An ABC of Childhood Tragedy: Volume 1

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This may be one of the worst books I've ever read. It's soulless and poorly written by someone with seemingly no knowledge of nor passion for poetry; the rhyme scheme is far too inconsistent for what is supposed to be a coherent collection, there is no attempt at properly utilising meter and rhythm, other than some sporadic and poor attempts at alliteration no real poetic techniques are used. The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer.

This books comes off as a self-masturbatory writing, coming off as the authors political revenge fantasy of torturing the children of those ideologically different from him, that the only jokes are, “lol, aren’t the left abusing children?” And even for that joke, it falls incredibly flat and obscured by bad writing. I'm really hoping none of this is lifted from real life kids, but at times it's too close for comfort. It’s promised as “poetry about the justice and darkness of humanity,” and it reads about as deep as Ben Shapiro’s novels. Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson - Our Carnivore Diet : How to Cure Depression and Disease with Meat Only: Revised Transcripts and Blogposts. Featuring Dr. Shawn BakerIt’s too short. There is only one stanza per child, which is particularly disappointing because the talent and thematic potential for this being more highly rated is there. The stanzas themselves are good and use the English language in fun and unique ways. The illustrations are good.

Peterson has the gall to compare his work to the likes of Edward Gorey and Neil Gaiman but that is an absolute insult to their creative genius and consistent hard work. The real horror here, is that the description to sell the book is longer and more thought out than the “book” itself. These are quite literally stereotypical tropes as stories. Then justifying it as abuse towards children. Wives, ask your husbands: What bothered you more, the terrible prose, the poor centering, the general sense of gesture without meaning, or the fact that the author is a bigot who talks like Kermit the Frog? (It’s OK, you can be honest.)Most of the poems in this book are just like this one, but some of them are more uncomfortable, given the topics they deal with. I don't think they are funny, and I certainly think they aren't deep. In the promotional video for this book, Peterson says that his goal was to "investigate the nexus between beauty and tragedy and humor". He makes equivalent claims about his other, more serious books. I believe it's some kind of defense mechanism: if you think the book is not good, then it means you didn't understand it, because you are not smart enough to find "the nexus between beauty and tragedy and humor".

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