Incel Fantasy | A Book Review of November 9

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• JO

  @JoeG_89 · 3 years ago

  "Hoover writes about boys who get the girl when they should get the chair." That put a big ass grin on my face because this man is made of poetry and comedy or a hybrid of both!

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• JO

  @JoeG_89 · 3 years ago

  Let's break down that poem in the beginning. "I am translucent, aquatic." So you can see through him, he's flowing like water. Water is clear. He's kinda like an open book, nothing to hide. He's honest and he's gonna tell you how he feels. "Drifting, aimless." But he got no direction in life, no purpose. "She is an anchor, sinking in my sea." So even though he's drifting aimlessly, she steps into the picture and becomes his anchor, a representation of stability in the wild, troubled waters of life. So in summary, it's about pegging.

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• CI

  @CinnamonHat · 3 years ago

  Don't listen to him - he IS sitting on books, because as we all know, Krimson's entire house is made out of books, including the floor!

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• IS

  @ishouldfindagoodname2416 · 2 years ago

  Ben’s dialogue is like when you play a dating sim and choose all the bad dialogue options that make the girl hate you.

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• HA

  @Hapnote · 3 years ago

  With context, that opening scene is absolutely disgusting. Ben is literally thinking "Hey there's that girl who I burned alive and left horribly scarred, I wonder if she's wearing a thong?"

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• CA

  @callistaglover7224 · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t believe Hoover would make Fallon&apos;s mother be like &quot;You weren&apos;t the only one scarred by the fire.&quot; Like that&apos;s the most unrealistic garbage. If my mother knew I had been retraumatized by the person who set me on fire and left me horrible burned, she would be in jail because she would have hunted him down and murdered him. What mother is like &quot;Oh, yeah, sure, he set the house on fire, nearly killed you, and left you horribly burned, but because he didn&apos;t turn away from the scars on you THAT HE CAUSED you should show him some respect of reading this.&quot; <br><br>Like what the hell?!

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• MO

  @mortimerwake2974 · 3 years ago

  &quot;She left me because I slept with her best friend; my personality had nothing to do with it.&quot; is a very funny line

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• TH

  @thomasderosso5625 · 3 years ago

  &quot;I don&apos;t care about your scars&quot; goes from sweet to insulting when said by the person who created the scars.

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• TU

  @Turab_Afghan · 3 years ago (edited)

  &quot;If you&apos;re packing underwear, that means you don&apos;t go commando. So by process of elimination. I&apos;ve figured out that you&apos;re currently wearing a thong.&quot;<br><br><br><br>Batman and Holmes have been real quiet ever since this behemoth took the stage.

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• IM

  @imanna221 · 3 years ago

  How to commit the perfect crime according to Hoover: <br>Step one: set girls house on fire.<br>Step two: stalk that girl until you feel horny enough to approach her. <br>Step three: gaslight, gatekeep, girl boss her into falling in love with you and hope that she never presses charges.

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• SU

  @subroy7123 · 3 years ago

  I think writers like Hoover took the wrong lessons from Pride and Prejudice. In Pride and Prejudice, she doesn&apos;t forgive him because he&apos;s a horrible person. That&apos;s not how causality works. She forgave him after she found out that a lot of the horrible stuff about him wasn&apos;t true, and he was trying to actively make amends for the horrible stuff he did do. Most romance authors seem to completely forego the &quot;making amends&quot; part nowadays &nbsp;and go straight to the forgiveness part, which is where most of the problems come from.

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• AZ

  @aziraphalethesapphic · 3 years ago (edited)

  I remember at a summer program a few years back a girl had a colleen hoover book with her and we would read passages out loud in our cabin and just get so frustrated about how fucking insane the characters were. Like just a group of 16-year-old girls yelling &quot;JUST FUCKING LEAVE HIM&quot; at a book.

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