The Worst Writing I've Encountered: Kylie and Kendall's Sci-Fi Book

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  • @DanielGreeneReviews
    @DanielGreeneReviews16 күн бұрын

    Big thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. Be sure to checkout www.squarespace.com/danielgreene

  • @michaeleggimann106

    @michaeleggimann106

    16 күн бұрын

    Yay square space. A patron to many of my favorites

  • @orcanimal
    @orcanimal16 күн бұрын

    Rest assured the KK sisters did as much actual writing on this book as one would be able to credit a keyboard when typing out a grocery list.

  • @f0rth3l0v30fchr15t

    @f0rth3l0v30fchr15t

    16 күн бұрын

    I mean, they get all the credit for the way they look when it was plastic surgeons who did all the work, so this is right in their wheelhouse.

  • @xidarian

    @xidarian

    16 күн бұрын

    You'd assume that but why hire such a shitty ghost writer?

  • @rubytiger13

    @rubytiger13

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@xidarian the bimbos probably used ai ounce they found out all they had to do was mindlessly spread their plastic cheeks and sheet all over their keyboard to get a "novel"

  • @Wineoclockbookworm

    @Wineoclockbookworm

    16 күн бұрын

    ​just a wild guess but maybe because they have no taste?

  • @rubytiger13

    @rubytiger13

    16 күн бұрын

    @@Wineoclockbookworm and no brains

  • @JamesTullos
    @JamesTullos16 күн бұрын

    I forgot this book existed. It has a *sequel* too.

  • @fearjunkie

    @fearjunkie

    16 күн бұрын

    OH GOD.

  • @rubytiger13

    @rubytiger13

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@fearjunkieAI has gone to far

  • @vamsiampolu8438

    @vamsiampolu8438

    16 күн бұрын

    I would watch a show where the two of you critique a terrible book

  • @cbob213

    @cbob213

    15 күн бұрын

    @@vamsiampolu8438that’s what this is. Why do people still equate things to old tv shows lol

  • @samuelleask1132

    @samuelleask1132

    15 күн бұрын

    😮😮😮

  • @nhart5132
    @nhart513216 күн бұрын

    "Don't you know, my family is very, very, very important, therefore I matter." That pretty much says it all... 😂😂😂

  • @recon_fpv

    @recon_fpv

    16 күн бұрын

    ^self-important

  • @hannahbrennan2131
    @hannahbrennan213116 күн бұрын

    These celebrities were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think whether they should.

  • @skylark7921

    @skylark7921

    16 күн бұрын

    Honestly maybe invert the quote. They were so focused on it they *should* sell a book, they didn’t stop to wonder if they actually *could* make anything worth reading

  • @smuu1996

    @smuu1996

    16 күн бұрын

    @@skylark7921 Eh, those ghost writers sometimes do a good job, sometimes they don't...

  • @tomascorona71

    @tomascorona71

    8 күн бұрын

    @@hannahbrennan2131 nice reference to doctor Malcolm.

  • @rangerstedfast

    @rangerstedfast

    3 күн бұрын

    Clever girl...

  • @aaronharvey5625
    @aaronharvey562516 күн бұрын

    I like to think the sentence cadence is fucked because Kendall would write half a sentence and then pass it to Kylie to finish the sentence. (They definitely had a ghostwriter and did not write a syllable if this book.)

  • @rubytiger13

    @rubytiger13

    16 күн бұрын

    Probably used AI as even the most brainless of the world can smear their unwashed cheeks across a keyboard and get a novel

  • @notyourdad

    @notyourdad

    16 күн бұрын

    @@rubytiger13 Give an AI a short summary for a story and a structure to follow and it will give you a very solid outline. Prompt it to write scenes based on that outline and it will produce better work than this.

  • @rubytiger13

    @rubytiger13

    16 күн бұрын

    @@notyourdad so your saying that anyone with even the lowest functioning down syndrome could use AI to make a better story

  • @EvelyntMild

    @EvelyntMild

    14 күн бұрын

    Their ghost writer was Maya Sloan. Never heard of her, but google says she's an award winning author. I'm convinced that award was for perfect attendence in middle school. Dotdotdot

  • @notyourdad

    @notyourdad

    12 күн бұрын

    @@Midori_Seabreeze This book came out a decade ago.

  • @samhunt6300
    @samhunt630016 күн бұрын

    This certainly raises my confidence that I am not as incompetent as I thought.

  • @swordablaze9259

    @swordablaze9259

    15 күн бұрын

    Ikr! 😂 it's also quite alarming that a professional ghost writer would churn this out. I'm not sure how surprised I am that the publishing house's editor(s) let this through...

  • @mEmory______

    @mEmory______

    15 күн бұрын

    It does tge opposite fir me. Am i doing this bad???? 😰

  • @KarlKristofferJohnsson

    @KarlKristofferJohnsson

    5 күн бұрын

    ​@@mEmory______ I'm sure you don't.

  • @MrWepx-hy6sn

    @MrWepx-hy6sn

    5 күн бұрын

    Same, like listening to Dan reading this and looking at my own shit actually boosts my morale

  • @Slipfish

    @Slipfish

    2 күн бұрын

    @@swordablaze9259 They let it through because they knew the names attached would make it sell more than tens of thousands of well written novels did.

  • @MasterHigure
    @MasterHigure14 күн бұрын

    Each sentence has exactly six words. This makes the book quite monotonous. Reading out loud would catch it. But if you don't you don't. Then you're stuck with this shit. Like reading bullet points off slides. The same cadence all the time. Not a single hint of variation. It gets boring after a while. Sounds like a constant sine wave. You wish they did something else. Made some music with their language. But no, we can't have that. You get six words per sentence. No more, no less, always six. Books shouldn't be written like this. But sadly they are some times. It's very very very very bad.

  • @Sweetheartstoryreviews

    @Sweetheartstoryreviews

    12 күн бұрын

    @@MasterHigure The fact that you managed that was impressive. See? I couldn't even do it.

  • @MasterHigure

    @MasterHigure

    11 күн бұрын

    @@Sweetheartstoryreviews It did take quite some effort. But you get used to it.

  • @generalbradley6421

    @generalbradley6421

    2 күн бұрын

    Lmaoo

  • @drewtheunspoken3988
    @drewtheunspoken398816 күн бұрын

    They are genuine inspirations! They have shown that you don't need skill or talent to get your novel published. You just have to be famous and have lots of money.

  • @JoeAuerbach

    @JoeAuerbach

    16 күн бұрын

    Not entirely true. You can self publish without talent OR fame. I certainly did it!

  • @rubytiger13

    @rubytiger13

    16 күн бұрын

    And with AI all you have to do is spread your unwashed cheeks and render your keyboard brown to get a novel of this calliber

  • @drewtheunspoken3988

    @drewtheunspoken3988

    16 күн бұрын

    @@JoeAuerbach I haven't read your work, but I'd be willing to bet it's 10X's better than the overpriced toilet paper those girls put out.

  • @swordablaze9259

    @swordablaze9259

    15 күн бұрын

    Yeah, it's either talent or already famous that trads seem to go for. The famous don't have to be talented - just bring an almost guarenteed audience to the table. Self publishing is an entirely different game and more or less anyone can publish this way.

  • @AkaSora96

    @AkaSora96

    14 күн бұрын

    Hell, you don't even need to actually write it

  • @HelloFutureMe
    @HelloFutureMe16 күн бұрын

    I think the most I've done is about 46 hours. I know I've never broken 50. But yeah, it's weird to feel c o g n i t i v e b r e a k d o w n in real time

  • @chrisnorris1987

    @chrisnorris1987

    15 күн бұрын

    In the Ultrarunning community, there are people hitting well over 100 hours at last man standing races, and other long format races. I've raced 60+ hours a couple of times and can confirm it's very psychedelic. Reality fades to waking dreams.

  • @EvelyntMild

    @EvelyntMild

    14 күн бұрын

    I hit about 72 hours once. The shadow people seemed nice enough, but I could never quite hear what they were saying...dotdotdot

  • @AndrewThoesen

    @AndrewThoesen

    14 күн бұрын

    I've done 43 hours without sleep and it is indeed trippy. Would not recommend.

  • @meikusje

    @meikusje

    13 күн бұрын

    ​@@chrisnorris1987 I watched a video a while back of someone doing an ultra marathon and he had a 'spotter' (can't recall exactly what it was called, but someone who ran with him for bits at a time). At some point near the end, he would just be asking the spotter 'are you seeing that too?', 'is this really there?' and other stuff like that. It's a wild 'hobby', that's for sure!

  • @kamranm946

    @kamranm946

    11 күн бұрын

    @@chrisnorris1987 some ultrarunner (I think Courtney Dauwalter?) made a shirt with pictures of a bunch of her hallucinations, but I can't find it now

  • @skybreaker7966
    @skybreaker796616 күн бұрын

    Seems like a clear case of "Editor and publisher didn't want to piss off celebrities"

  • @thecrispymaster

    @thecrispymaster

    16 күн бұрын

    More likely a case of "we're going to pay our ghost writer so little that they'll have to put the whole thing together in two weeks to make in any way economically viable for them".

  • @takanara7

    @takanara7

    16 күн бұрын

    It's more like "This is guaranteed to sell regardless of quality so why bother spending money editing?"

  • @robwoodring9437
    @robwoodring94377 күн бұрын

    Those girls' literacy was formed in the texting age. You know their editor spent a 40-hour week just red-lining all the mistaken uses of there/their/they're. The second full week was devoted only to making sure the book HAD punctuation.

  • @archaeologydad3761
    @archaeologydad376116 күн бұрын

    8:44 can confirm this is a conversation you would have with your Uber driver in Boston while driving past a construction site. "Yeah, you hear 'bout that guy got killed here last week? Ton of bricks fell on him, killed instantly"

  • @WankiTank

    @WankiTank

    5 күн бұрын

    I read that in Bill Burr's voice (thank you auto correct for changing it into bill butt)

  • @DenDave_
    @DenDave_16 күн бұрын

    Well, of all people that could've written a sci-fi novel, these two surely are the last i would ever have expected it from.

  • @billyalarie929

    @billyalarie929

    16 күн бұрын

    Well, you were right!

  • @pRahvi0

    @pRahvi0

    16 күн бұрын

    Evidently, they were about the last who ever should have.

  • @jamesmacleod9382

    @jamesmacleod9382

    15 күн бұрын

    Hell is freezing over.

  • @siisti81

    @siisti81

    15 күн бұрын

    nah cuz they still haven't, so you're good

  • @IAteFire

    @IAteFire

    15 күн бұрын

    They couldn’t do it, which is why they hired a ghostwriter to do it for them!

  • @tait4508
    @tait450816 күн бұрын

    The drop in quality from the prologue (which wasn't terrible) to the actual chapters (which were quite terrible) is staggering.

  • @WankiTank

    @WankiTank

    5 күн бұрын

    same thought! I was like, oh but... this is entertaining. but man, the middle chapter.

  • @nathanhall9345
    @nathanhall934516 күн бұрын

    The thing that baffles me is the co-author. Because if this was just them, I get it. It absolutely reads like a first story. Ask any author published today, and the first thing they wrote reads like this, or worse. I shudder to think of my first book being seen by anyone, ever. But most people spend a good 5-10 years learning before we actually publish anything. Most of us face adversity and failure and rejection. We persist. And that hones us. Now imagine being guaranteed a deal on the very first thing you write, because it will sell. Skipping the line. And in the process, hobbling yourself.

  • @JESSEverything
    @JESSEverything16 күн бұрын

    72 hours? If I miss sleep one night I feel like an absolute crackhead.

  • @Verdictus13
    @Verdictus1316 күн бұрын

    As someone who was once up for a week straight without chemical assistance, can confirm you start to hallucinate a couple days in. Can not recommend.

  • @dewed1487

    @dewed1487

    16 күн бұрын

    Go on, give us some stories!

  • @Raikeran

    @Raikeran

    16 күн бұрын

    what happened?

  • @swordablaze9259

    @swordablaze9259

    15 күн бұрын

    Woah! What happened? How and why were you up so long?

  • @pippaschroeder9660

    @pippaschroeder9660

    6 сағат бұрын

    Dang hope your taking care of yourself and getting the sleep you need now

  • @Nasser851000
    @Nasser85100016 күн бұрын

    This book makes Wizard'sFirst Rule look like Memory of Light 😆

  • @dndn-sc7qg

    @dndn-sc7qg

    16 күн бұрын

    Lol. Tbf I don't think first rule is that bad, I recently read it and found it to be ok.

  • @xidarian

    @xidarian

    16 күн бұрын

    I don't think wizards first rule is that badly written it's just ham handedly misogynistic and gross.

  • @jackwriter1908

    @jackwriter1908

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@xidarian i mean you could consider these qualities as bad, if you don't like reading that kind of thing...

  • @mpnothanks

    @mpnothanks

    16 күн бұрын

    Goodkind did seem like a massive tool, but I did end up finishing the last of the 26 books last month and I found it entertaining enough. I had the good fortune of reading that first before Wheel of Time, which I’m on now.

  • @JC-qp8hj

    @JC-qp8hj

    16 күн бұрын

    @@mpnothanksit was entertaining when I was 15. I remember thinking Temple of the Winds was awesome. But now that I’ve read a lot more I can see just how derivative Goodkind was to the point of almost outright stealing. Plus his derision of the fantasy genre and his Ayn Rand love letters are so obvious that it’s bad now looking back as an adult. It’s well-written prose wise but I agree with all of Daniel’s points about Wizards First Rule and it doesn’t really change throughout the series that I remember. Tbf I stopped after book 9 though

  • @skoogproductions7497
    @skoogproductions749716 күн бұрын

    It reads like they dictated the book but when their co-writer tried to expand upon their thoughts they got offended and stopped them 😂

  • @Liesmith424
    @Liesmith42416 күн бұрын

    This video expanded my eyeballs.

  • @eire3339
    @eire333916 күн бұрын

    It's like they listened to Red Rising and said "I can do that." But my mamma always said to say something nice. So, books like this make me respect actual authors even more.

  • @Johngradycole

    @Johngradycole

    Күн бұрын

    @@eire3339 haha I appreciate this

  • @lordphinix3
    @lordphinix316 күн бұрын

    I hope my writing isnt this bad, but I really worry it is. At least its not published.

  • @mittag983

    @mittag983

    16 күн бұрын

    Mine is worse lmao it's so full and makes zero sense if writing is fun to you keep on 😂

  • @recon_fpv

    @recon_fpv

    16 күн бұрын

    The trick is keep writing. It'll continue to suck, but eventually you may do something great after a few years.

  • @meikusje

    @meikusje

    13 күн бұрын

    It doesn't matter if it's bad, as long as you're working on improving. Very few people start out good. Writing is a skill, and like any skill, it takes practice and repetition to get better at it. Just keep writing, let people read your stuff, and be open to constructive criticism.

  • @redvalkyrie84
    @redvalkyrie8416 күн бұрын

    There is a reason that sleep deprivation is used to torture people. AND why they tell new mothers to not throw their babies - lack of sleep makes you a completely different person.

  • @drummerguy438
    @drummerguy43816 күн бұрын

    I couldn’t have asked for a bigger confidence boost in my own writing. Thank you for suffering through this

  • @perteadsf4914
    @perteadsf491416 күн бұрын

    If they were like "Hey, we're beginning writers so don't expect anything from this book." it would all be fine. But no, this was marketed as an actually publishing-worthy book. No. Just No.

  • @Kim_Miller
    @Kim_Miller16 күн бұрын

    This was pretty painful to listen to. But it reminded me of something else. Twenty years ago a group of authors got together to write a collaborative novel that was so bad it would be unpublishable. They took turns filling in chapters without reference to the previous one, resulting in characters changing from one page to the next, plot points disappearing, and more. It was called Atlanta Nights, and you can find it easily these days. They submitted it to a vanity publisher who advertised as only accepting high quality manuscripts. It was accepted without question. Then the writers pointed out the reality and the publisher had to back track very quickly. It was then published on Lulu under the author name, Travis Tea. Chase up the Wiki page on it, it's a total scream to read. It's a bad book written by experts.

  • @rvantong
    @rvantong15 күн бұрын

    Who needs alcohol? Apparently this book has the same effect on your brain as a gallon of tequila

  • @deedaceopondo3520
    @deedaceopondo35207 күн бұрын

    And I quote: 'you built this empire but...YEEET!'

  • @Idontcare5225
    @Idontcare522514 күн бұрын

    "We're approaching some dialogue" should NOT be a sentence a reader has to utter aloud or even deign to think while reading. Lordy...

  • @SammieMousie
    @SammieMousie16 күн бұрын

    I'm with you on drinking. The older I get the less it appeals to me and it never really appealed to me to begin with. Also Kudos to you for even trying to read the book. I wouldn't have bothered.

  • @jackwriter1908
    @jackwriter190816 күн бұрын

    _Andrew could see Blood streaming from his face and even worse, an eye missing._ You can feel how they planned on putting a dramatic *dum dum duuuuum* into it. I don't know why, but that sentence sounds so bad 😂

  • @TheInfamousRoo

    @TheInfamousRoo

    16 күн бұрын

    Maybe cause it sounds like his attention was drawn first to the blood rather than the gaping hole in the dudes face?

  • @TheHonourableFool

    @TheHonourableFool

    15 күн бұрын

    It's the "Andrew could see" which is a common writing mistake among new writers. The writer wants to reinforce that you are perceiving things through the character, but instead makes an active scene passive by distancing us from the moment. Andrew can turn at the commotion and see one of his workers stumbling forward. "Blood was streaming from his face and his eye was missing." Further rewording would make it more visceral for the audience, but even with this minor edit you get a much stronger reaction. Something their ghost writer should have known to correct if she was any good, or else they just controlled what she wrote too tightly. That's all I can imagine.

  • @TheInfamousRoo

    @TheInfamousRoo

    15 күн бұрын

    @@TheHonourableFool its also possible it was on a horrifically short schedule so the ghost writer was basically writing at sanderson pacing with no time to go back and clean it up

  • @TheHonourableFool

    @TheHonourableFool

    15 күн бұрын

    @@TheInfamousRoo also very true! I hesitate to lay any blame on her, considering the egos she had to work with.

  • @meikusje

    @meikusje

    13 күн бұрын

    ​@@TheHonourableFool even just splitting the sentence into two would make it better. 'Andrew could see blood streaming from his face. Even worse, an eye was missing.' The way the sentence is written in the original makes it sound like a 'and then, and then' situation.

  • @swordablaze9259
    @swordablaze925915 күн бұрын

    "First drafts are meant to suck" - this is commom advice in the writing community. But you're not supposed to publish that without edits... 😆

  • @robinblake7845
    @robinblake784515 күн бұрын

    Every time Daniel read the name Longhorn, all I could think was Foghorn Leghorn. So, I kept imagining this mentor character as a giant rooster. I can't decide if this made the story better or worse.

  • @julio726
    @julio72616 күн бұрын

    This was so incredibly hard to follow. I can’t imagine the sort of torture people underwent to finish.

  • @RubenRodriguez-co9jx
    @RubenRodriguez-co9jx16 күн бұрын

    Come on Daniel, I can't believe you've never felt your eyeballs expand. You're missing out.

  • @takanara7

    @takanara7

    16 күн бұрын

    Sounds painful.

  • @Silmarien_
    @Silmarien_14 күн бұрын

    Daniel, I had a depressing day today, I was very sad and crying, and nothing could give me joy. You can’t imagine how much this video has lifted my mood! I began to smile and laugh at the sounds of your contagious laughter! From the bottom of my heart, thank you 🤍

  • @peaceofcrap
    @peaceofcrap16 күн бұрын

    Daniel thanks for casually repping the choice to stay dry. Makes me happy.

  • @rhonwenbaker2448
    @rhonwenbaker244815 күн бұрын

    1) Can you imagine being the editor on this? 2) I'm morbidly curious as to whether this... prose?... reflects their irl thoughts. --- edt: oh, yes, the sleep thing. Going without for multiple days will leave lasting psychological damage and can actually lead to psychosis iirc.

  • @katelinmize8023
    @katelinmize80237 күн бұрын

    This is written like it's a middle schoolers book report summarizing what happened in a different book

  • @GreyMarlfox
    @GreyMarlfox16 күн бұрын

    It sounds like they wrote lines then went back in with a thesaurus to try and "fancy" it up. Stuff like expanding eyeballs instead of something like eyes going wide in shock.

  • @takanara7

    @takanara7

    16 күн бұрын

    I don't think it was a thesaurus

  • @avsambart
    @avsambart16 күн бұрын

    I get delirious every time I fly home. The flights take 18-20 hours and I can't sleep when I travel so in total I'm always up for over a day and I am always loopy towards the end.

  • @Persewna4
    @Persewna410 күн бұрын

    That was painful, I can only imagine how much moreso it was to have to actually read it. I think I understand feeling angry about the book, that something that horrendous, that offensive to actual writers was allowed to go to print on the strength of their celebrity alone! It's an actual insult to anyone and everyone who loves the written word.

  • @caitbeck100
    @caitbeck10016 күн бұрын

    So the book was written in 2014. I think that means they were 17 and 19? I mean that abomination has no business being published but they were young so that can explain why it was so bad.

  • @mischarowe
    @mischarowe15 күн бұрын

    Daniel: "don't read this book" Me: "10 steps ahead of you" Was never going to.🤣

  • @rad4924
    @rad492416 күн бұрын

    The only thing I can think of to make this book more nightmarish would be if it included a foreword by Terry Goodkind.

  • @su_shadow9326
    @su_shadow93268 күн бұрын

    They brought us crap, you turned it into laughter. Thank you Daniel, thank you.

  • @Rockblue01
    @Rockblue0110 күн бұрын

    Prologue: C- for decent first and nice thought in last sentence

  • @siosinsin7305
    @siosinsin73058 күн бұрын

    After everything you read i still have no idea what's happening in any of the scenes. Thats honestly a SKILL.

  • @Marco_Onyxheart
    @Marco_Onyxheart16 күн бұрын

    This prose is so bad, I cannot process the text at all. And I'm not even dyslexic. And am listening to Daniel read it.

  • @yusufkadar
    @yusufkadar15 күн бұрын

    This reminds me of those pictures that seem normal at first but, when you actually look at them, you can't identify a single object. Like, I know these are English words that have meaning, but I don't understand any of it.

  • @vamsiampolu8438
    @vamsiampolu843816 күн бұрын

    20:28 when you want to focus on something in the distance you narrow your eyes not dilate them. Dilated eyes may represent a lack of focus.

  • @lovefromshirley
    @lovefromshirley16 күн бұрын

    It sounds like it was written like they thought they would get a tv adaptation, that's the only explanation for these strange scene breaks

  • @ladyjatheist2763
    @ladyjatheist276315 күн бұрын

    did 104 hours on a dare at 21 yrs old... was beyond delirious. Slept for 2 days afterward.

  • @JamesLiv17
    @JamesLiv1715 күн бұрын

    "I so vividly understand the artistry of writing right now" 🤣

  • @lethentucker
    @lethentucker16 күн бұрын

    My eyeballs have been expanding this entire video, and I'm out of breath with some tears on my cheek. 😂

  • @calebwright2111
    @calebwright211116 күн бұрын

    Some of this writing reminds of Charlie's political speech he wrote for Dennis on always sunny 😂

  • @LightningRaven42

    @LightningRaven42

    16 күн бұрын

    "Hello, fellow american. This you should vote. Me! I leave power good. Thank you, thank you. If you vote me, I'm hot.Taxes, they will be lower, son. The democratic vote for me, is right thing to do Philadelphia. So do!"

  • @inscendo8397

    @inscendo8397

    14 күн бұрын

    Best comment 😂😂😂😂

  • @MeghanReads
    @MeghanReads15 күн бұрын

    Well, this was the motivation I needed to try writing something. Coz my grocery lists read better than this

  • @vestofholding
    @vestofholding15 күн бұрын

    Rebels: City of Indra: The book that can give you sleep deprivation symptoms in record time.

  • @ladyjatheist2763
    @ladyjatheist276315 күн бұрын

    my schadenfreude is in ecstasy knowing they are horrible writers... and I am disgusted that they will undoubtedly make money from it. Absolutely sickening.

  • @skeletonkeybooks
    @skeletonkeybooks13 күн бұрын

    I first heard of this book when it won a Green Slime Award at Bubonicon. (Yes, that's a convention named after a plague.)

  • @srely3786
    @srely378616 күн бұрын

    Unfortunately, you can function without sleep for a long time, but it is definitely not safe or recommended. After having both my babies (2 years apart), I was unable to sleep for 5 days straight, due to them waking and crying to be fed just as I was about to fall sleep and also due to the new mom hormones racing through my body that made me so alert and wired and waiting to hear them wake up. Do not recommend and I could not have driven a car or left the house to do anything - I was a zombie. I did, thankfully get 3-5 hours of sleep on the fifth day after both births.

  • @IlseMulAuthor
    @IlseMulAuthor15 күн бұрын

    Thank you for this review and for saving us from this monstrosity! I will never read this book. And I foresee I probably won't be reading any books written by Maya Sloan either....

  • @tiredcrazyman21
    @tiredcrazyman2116 күн бұрын

    Im a vision technician, and if your eyeballs are EXPANDING, then you are having some serious issues.

  • @HGPrime
    @HGPrime16 күн бұрын

    It's interesting to watch as you go from curious, to amused, baffled, then pissed off as you continue. But if where one of their fans I wouldn't feel like they thought I was the "best" if they offered me that garbage.

  • @rzuue
    @rzuue16 күн бұрын

    18:15 it's written like my internship report from when I was in university. Like, it's completely missing any thoughts or feelings of the character.

  • @lasennui
    @lasennui14 күн бұрын

    Been an insomniac my entire life. It's a wild ride of functional humanity on 3 hours of sleep on normal days, 6 on best days ever, and zero on the worst. Favorite time was college. I did end up not sleeping for 4-5 days. The reason I say 4-5 is that I have no memory of the 5th day whatsoever. Day 3 was already fairly mild hallucinations and the last part of the 4th to the end of the 5th is just lost to me. But...I didn't do anything abnormal. I apparently still went to classes, to work, accompanied friends, made jokes, and wrote an incomprehensibly strange yet accurate thesis statement for literary analysis homework that I ended up not using. Mania is a hell of a drug.

  • @hannahpurnell2002
    @hannahpurnell200216 күн бұрын

    Never has a video been so perfectly timed for the end of a work day 🍷

  • @kaleidokai11
    @kaleidokai1114 күн бұрын

    the longest i went without sleep was around five and a half days but it was also triggered by a manic episode and i was very much hallucinating. it was really bad you wouldn’t just be tired you go a little crazy, i couldn’t even force myself to go to sleep at that point i had to get help from my doctor

  • @stephenoran2019
    @stephenoran201916 күн бұрын

    Somehow, I don't really find this surprising. Note the absence of any degree of surprise on my face! Thanks for this! (Sorry you had to endure the reading to protect us)!

  • @ritzee13
    @ritzee1310 күн бұрын

    When I first read the title I though it was an Indian inspired Scifi because Indra is a prominent indian god. I thought there were ripping off Indian culture, but its still a weird name choice.

  • @Finey_S_K
    @Finey_S_K15 күн бұрын

    Since I can't get my hands on The Pepperwood Chronicles, I'll be looking out for this gem instead.

  • @saraphangel6896
    @saraphangel689616 күн бұрын

    "Arndew" lol

  • @SlothLinn
    @SlothLinn8 күн бұрын

    Secret tunneeeeeeeeeel, secret tunneeeeeeeeeel

  • @sandilemlambo5701
    @sandilemlambo570115 күн бұрын

    10:25 this is how I feel about The Grace of Kings. And this happened and this happened.

  • @TheBeardedBookBeast
    @TheBeardedBookBeast15 күн бұрын

    Oh boy this was so fun. That must have been terrible to read, but it was enjoyable to hear you read it and break it down😂.

  • @alexm-e4910
    @alexm-e491016 күн бұрын

    I don’t think I’ve ever made it a full 72 hours of wakefulness 🤔 but once in first year university, my insomnia got so bad I was awake 3 nights through. Falling apart by the end of it, and when I finally did sleep I genuinely don’t remember a: falling asleep b: how I got back to my dorm room or c: collapsing on the floor of said dorm room still fully clothed. I slept for 17 hours straight or thereabouts

  • @davidbruce482
    @davidbruce48216 күн бұрын

    I absolutely can't stand present tense in a novel. Chuck Wendig wrote his Star Wars aftermath trilogy in present tense as well, and I had such a hard time slogging through....

  • @pRahvi0

    @pRahvi0

    16 күн бұрын

    Present tense 3rd person feels like a script for a movie or comic that is yet to be translated into the final form. Present tense 1st person, like this, feels like... I'm not sure... stram of consciousness? A style trending about a century ago and infamously terrible to read.

  • @Angieptsh
    @Angieptsh14 күн бұрын

    I just read an excerpt from one of Maya Sloan's standalone books and while it's not *quite* as egregious in the repetitive sentence structure... it's pretty close. I wonder if maybe she's a friend who got a book deal 'cause she's friends with the Kardashians.

  • @aqup_

    @aqup_

    9 күн бұрын

    @@Angieptsh wtf even Kardashian's and Jenner's even do dawg? I have never seen them doing anything on the internet that is, like, their "profession."

  • @JoeAuerbach
    @JoeAuerbach16 күн бұрын

    The use of passive voice here is so incredibly weird. Nobody is doing anything, they're just there while it happens.

  • @Zytharis
    @Zytharis12 күн бұрын

    With so much money you'd think they could at least afford a proof reader 😭

  • @karigirl34
    @karigirl3416 күн бұрын

    16:26 Somehow, this is a ghost writer (Maya Sloan). I guess this goes to show that even large amounts of money couldn’t make up for passion when it comes to fantasy writing. I’m curious to see what this writing (& editing) process was like here. 17:23 My best friend and I used to write stories chapter by chapter back and forth in middle school and they read a lot like this too 😂

  • @LightningRaven42

    @LightningRaven42

    16 күн бұрын

    Given how these people like to threat others, I wouldn't be surprised if they hired the ghost writer for as cheap as possible and didn't work with them whatsoever, and probably didn't pay enough for them to do more than a finished first draft.

  • @karigirl34

    @karigirl34

    16 күн бұрын

    @@LightningRaven42 Honestly, I think you’re onto something there. That would absolutely fit the bill.

  • @jackwriter1908

    @jackwriter1908

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@LightningRaven42 I would definetly halfass my job if someone had the money to pay me well, but tries to give me the bare minimum and then (let's be honest that definetly happened) keep demanding changes. And since my name wouldn't be on the cover anyway, I couldn't care less how poorly it is reviewed 😂

  • @alec8485

    @alec8485

    15 күн бұрын

    This might just be Maya Sloan's writing quality. She has 2 books on goodreads where she's listed as the only author, which have a rating of 3.37 and 2.44.

  • @yoavhi94
    @yoavhi944 сағат бұрын

    I love McCarthy and while hearing his writing thinking it's the the Jenners I chuckled at how bad it was. I always knew me for a hypocrite but damn that one hit hard and true. Great prank!

  • @quinn0517
    @quinn051716 күн бұрын

    They *could* have paid a writer. It would have been fine. Somebody gets paid, they get the cash grab, and it's maybe a mediocre novel. But no. I just realized someone must have edited this. Multiple people held this book in their hands and thought, "Sure, let's put this out into the world." Sigh.

  • @jackwriter1908

    @jackwriter1908

    16 күн бұрын

    I mean... if I were the editor I would do it, get the money and just wouldn't care how good of a job I did. After all, no-one will say it's the editors fault 😂

  • @jatzi1526

    @jatzi1526

    16 күн бұрын

    @@jackwriter1908 I mean other editors definitely will. Schilling out shit for money is possibly a way to advance ones career in the publishing world but I'm betting the better method is to just ya know be a good editor.

  • @takanara7

    @takanara7

    16 күн бұрын

    The book is going to sell because of the authors names. Why would a publishing company spend editing something when that editing will have zero influence on sales figures? It's just flushing money down the toilet absolutely no reason. [some kind of sci-fi toilet that won't get clogged on the cotton-linen paper that money is printed on]

  • @IlseMulAuthor

    @IlseMulAuthor

    15 күн бұрын

    There was an author involved..... safe to say I will never write a book of hers. I mean.....

  • @GWins96
    @GWins9614 күн бұрын

    I think one of my favourite moments of this who video was the start when Daniel stated "I don't really like drinking" . . . Well I think THIS "Book" may have caused Daniel to start drinking.

  • @coyley72
    @coyley7215 күн бұрын

    When you reading, everything felt like the blurb off the back of the book. Zzz I bet the KKs just AI’d the book.

  • @MattMay06
    @MattMay06Күн бұрын

    Daniel reading this book is uncannily parallel to me watching Neil Breen for the first time.

  • @snoopygonewilder
    @snoopygonewilder14 күн бұрын

    I forgot this book was a thing. The only reason I know it exists is because I saw it in a used bookstore and saw Jenner on the spine and was confused. That was the first and last time I saw it and thought of its existance. I've never even considered reading this, and I've read some questionable stuff throughout the years, like so bad I'm embarrassed for people to know I read. I would just feel bad for myself reading this.

  • @lupolinar
    @lupolinar14 күн бұрын

    I went almost 2 days without sleep (Party party) and went directly to work - I was a hazard to me and everyone around me. I could go home, because I did not look well - and this was in my early 20s.

  • @rufuscoppertop330
    @rufuscoppertop33010 күн бұрын

    Have to say, I have literally NEVER heard of these authors. Not ever. Not until I clicked on your video just now.

  • @jesterjay420
    @jesterjay4209 күн бұрын

    Videos like these make me feel better about my mediocre sci fi novel

  • @zyswanson7865
    @zyswanson786513 күн бұрын

    It is indeed like this with everything they make and sell 😂

  • @mordyth
    @mordyth12 күн бұрын

    This made me want to drink a lot and it's only 8am😊

  • @sarahperricone9171
    @sarahperricone917113 күн бұрын

    I would be such a devoted viewer of 'Keeping Up with Cormac' you have no idea

  • @Goomaster101
    @Goomaster10116 күн бұрын

    this book gives me a lot confidence, because if something like this can be published, then I can certainly get published.

  • @takanara7

    @takanara7

    16 күн бұрын

    Yeah first become a billionaire makeup and lifestyle mogul, then use your money to publish and promote your book to your fans. [honestly any 'influencer' can write a book and sell it to their followers]

  • @thomaskemp8803
    @thomaskemp880314 күн бұрын

    Legit felt my eyeballs expand when he read that line!

  • @ettuShaggy
    @ettuShaggy16 күн бұрын

    “Kar-Dash-Nee-Jenners” 😂

  • @shannonallen4851
    @shannonallen485114 күн бұрын

    "Are all their products like this?" Yes. I got a bottle of their tequila not knowing it was a Jenner brand and it was the worst tequila I have ever had.

  • @coreyschultz2033
    @coreyschultz203312 күн бұрын

    If a book like this!!! Can be published. Then i can be published, too.

  • @starmoalitiny
    @starmoalitinyКүн бұрын

    5:14 it’s so specific but so true😂😂