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Mother West Wind's Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

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Mar 05, 2026 11:59AM

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The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

by Roshan Sethi

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Adam Stone said: " This is the worst book I've read in years by quite a large margin. I'd actually be relieved to discover this was done with AI, as opposed to a human being spending hours typing this garbage.

I was sent a copy from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest This is the worst book I've read in years by quite a large margin. I'd actually be relieved to discover this was done with AI, as opposed to a human being spending hours typing this garbage.

I was sent a copy from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review. My review is: "This book is awful."

This novel started with the description of a job, a resume, a series of e-mails begging for the aforementioned job, and then "The man sending these e-mails was, for our purposes, named Raj (or sometimes Ray) Ladlani. He was thirty-one years old but said he was twenty-six. He had dark coiled hair and feline eyes and a nose that was very Mughal, which is to say long and regal."

Three sentences later, the description "feline eyes" comes up again. We also see "coiled hair" or "hair with a coil" several times, and when we finally meet a second character, her "pulled back hair" comes up repeatedly.

I wish, for my purposes, that this book had a stricter editor, which is to say that I am ten percent through the book, and it can be summed up as "Lying actor wannabe with coiled hair fails to get job he is unqualified for, and is sad about it because he once read William Makepeace Thackery's book *Vanity Fair* using his feline eyes." But I'd have to use "for our purposes" multiple times "for reasons that may be apparent later."

Honestly, I'd be surprised if the printed version of this book wasn't in 24 cpi font and triple spaced to make it seem larger. The language is so padded. Instead of crying, the "(Raj) was surprised to find that his eyes were now growing wet."

The author neither trusts the reader to make their own conclusions, nor trusts himself to arrive at an interesting part of the story before the reader bails.

I am bailing.

I see some other reviews talking about how this book is hilarious, or "a riot." There isn't a joke within fifty miles of this book.

Reading this is like listening to a group of twenty year old writers pitching their memoirs about writing books before they've ever written a book. ...more "

Mar 05, 2026 09:43AM · see review

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Aren’t humans absurd? I suppose we like praise for its own sake. The way children like ice cream. It’s an inferiority complex, that’s what it is. Praise assuages our insecurities. And ridiculously so. How could I rise in my own opinion? ...more