Maybe it’s my childhood sexual abuse, it could be a million things, but it disgusts me when people say they enjoyed such a horrific and disgusting book. The narration is great, but that makes it all the more difficult to read. It’s triggering, it’s disturbing, it enrages me, and watching all these people praise it just feels like a gut punch to victims.
I’m not hating on the book, I’m hating on the people who don’t understand how horrific it actually is, and sit here and say they “fell in love” with the experience, want to reread it. It makes me feel nauseous to read it, and it enrages me that the trauma of real people is just some narrative to people. A story they “fell in love” with. A story they’d like to read again.
I mean I listen to true crime, I love exploring the psychology of nasty people, but I’ve never heard a case that I want to hear again. People aren’t learning from this book, it’s entertainment, how is this entertaining for anyone???
EDIT: Gonna have to add on. I’m once again, not hating on the book. See where I said,”the narration is great”. If you can walk away from a story saying that it was enjoyable because of the narration, however, I feel like you missed the point of the story.
Point is, the books good, how it is received is not. It is not supposed to be enjoyable. It’s to call out reality. It is a reality for victims. It is a reality, and I’m tired of people ignoring that just to commend the author, while simultaneously missing his point.
Edit 2: y’all need to understand I’m bashing the audience, not the author or the book.
Edit 3: Notifs are turned off for this post because y’all aren’t reading my post, the comments, and you’re offended and already have your biased views. Accusing me of being biased because of my trauma. It affected me worse, but that’s the only affect it had on me. I’ve confidently said that I think this is an important work, but nobody is taking it the way it should be taken. I’m tired of everyone putting words in my mouth, and I want the post to stay up because I know this is an opinion other people share. Just know that I won’t be explaining myself any further. At this point I’ve just been repeating parts of my post, and it’s obvious y’all are too quick to attack.
by Spycenrice