For Evil Stupid I nominate Thanos.

Powerful, willing to kill huge amounts of things, 0 understanding that it’s simply a bilp on the timescale of living beings. The black/bubonic plague killed about 1/3 of Europe. Slowed things down for maybe 100 years with a completely inefficient economy.

I see you sleeping on C.M.O.T. Dibbler.

Well, you have a month to top it!

Anything Lovecraft that’s not in a Boston townie accent.

No one is making you read the book. If you don’t like it (for whatever reason) just stop. There are practically unlimited books out there, and you’ve got a finite time to read them.

I think the fastest I’ve bailed on a book was under 10 pages. The language made me say “oh fuck no”, I checked a few other chapters at random, same thing. Good bye, hope someone at the library liked it.

An intro to social psych class has some terrifying insights into how our brains work, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for.

It depends, I know some authors will only blurb if they’ve actually read it. If it’s a big author, or someone like Patterson? I figure a marketing person threw some positive words on it and added their name. If it’s someone in the same general sphere of book? Sure.

But that’s only after I read an actual summary, or judge it by its cover, or something.

I would have loved to be able to write an absolutely scorching analysis of a book we’d had to read in school. It would have probably gotten me to think more about the book than figuring out that orange was the color of love or some shit like that.