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Downfall by George Donnelly

stitching_ghost's review

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What the f**k did I just read? I feel like I stumbled in a corner of the internet I have no business being in and confirmed that G**gle is an evil corporation on account of it suggesting me this book all at once. I wonder if this book is one of those intentionally extremely bad self-aware ones but I somehow missed it?
Ian is a whiny, boring, immature and mentally unstable guy who expected things to just go his way because he had a job apparently and now he is disappointed that his kids didn't turn out how he would have liked them to in spite of the fact that by all appearances he didn't actually do much raising at all or even put in the energy to find a woman who shared his values to build a family with. The word trivial seems to be the best descriptor for Ian.
There's a lot of buzz words in this but there isn't much substance besides Ian is a terrible person but he lacks the self-awareness to realize that he is no better than the people around him.
In my notes the words that kept coming back were the vomiting emoji, incel BS and WTF. Long story short I feel like I fried a few brain cells reading this trite booklet for the sad man refusing to take responsibility for his own misery.
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