Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #73

I've been on a spree of absolute shit books.

How To Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix starts out with a 34 year old loser by the name of Louise getting knocked up out of wedlock and struggling with how to tell her parents. She laments the fact that they're traditional and goes over all the ways she's better than them and her loser brother (who actually is a big frick-up loser). Unsurprisingly, her parents are very happy and want to spend time with her and her new baby! And generally that was the crux of my issue with the book; a loser with a superiority complex, which honestly isn't all that uncommon in modern fiction. But then, we fast-forward to the spookies happening and.... It's puppets. The spookies are puppets. Which was dumb enough to be enjoyable, but still I fricking hate Louise and her brother.

The Pallbearer's Club by Paul Tremblay. This author is generally divisive because his endings are ambiguous, but I've read a couple of his books and enjoyed them so I thought I'd try another, and wouldn't you know, the main character of this book is sad-sack, sourpuss, loser with a huge fricking superiority complex. But the book starts with him in highschool so it's not so bad to be the worst version of yourself! Well, actually no, because it's written like memoirs, so we're to believe the text we're reading is 50 years in the future and he still believes his music and politics and leather jacket and his bleeding heart makes him better than everyone around him. It's all just complaining and lamenting and complaining and complaining and so goddarned boring. I wish his scoliosis had turned in on itself and become a tight enough spiral to wink out of existence. Still have 2 chapters to go, hopefully a nuke goes off and anyone that had the displeasure of interacting with this fricking loser is mercifully killed.

I need to be better and dropping shitty books.