A review by pumpkincore
The Bad Mood and the Stick by Lemony Snicket
1.0
So the lesson of this book is that if you're in a bad mood, and you do something mean or rude or awful to someone (poke them with sticks, laugh when they fall in mud, strip in the middle of a business, order people around) it will make you feel so good that your bad mood will have to move on to someone else.
Oversimplified? Maybe. But this book was an actual train wreck. When a grown man strips down to his underwear (Even if the owner or whoever else was behind the counter hadn't expressly told him not to do so, it's clearly not acceptable behavior.) and demands immediate service without so much as a "please" and that's not even the biggest problem with the book... I can only say that this book got published because of the author's name, and not because it contributes anything to the world in general. It's not even good for a giggle. I was just annoyed.
The ice cream man and the stick are the only characters just living their lives, doing their thing, while insanity brews around them.
Oversimplified? Maybe. But this book was an actual train wreck. When a grown man strips down to his underwear (Even if the owner or whoever else was behind the counter hadn't expressly told him not to do so, it's clearly not acceptable behavior.) and demands immediate service without so much as a "please" and that's not even the biggest problem with the book... I can only say that this book got published because of the author's name, and not because it contributes anything to the world in general. It's not even good for a giggle. I was just annoyed.
The ice cream man and the stick are the only characters just living their lives, doing their thing, while insanity brews around them.