I really don’t understand why people like either of these books.

I guess for Go Ask Alice it’s a bunch of anti-drug parents and teachers who just love it because they think it will scare kids off drugs. I read it in middle school, never having done drugs, and thought it was crap and that it seemed incredibly unrealistic and heavy handed. Like a book version of Reefer Madness.

I read the Tattooist a couple years ago and thought it was non-fiction when I picked it up. Reading it I was like, no way is this real/sincere…the narrator is so contrived sounding. I googled it and ofc found it was fake. Shouldn’t such a somber book about something so tragic not come off as so…just tawdry and weird. I honestly think it’s a little offensive. The narrator’s comments on flirting with women and how he used to flirt with his mom for practice? Just bizarre. I hated that guy.

I think some people just feel bad critiquing anything to do with the Holocaust because they think it’s disrespectful. But it’s a fictional story and a bad one at that.