Things in this book I didn't bring up: - Eddie has a roommate named Dave. After Eddie rapes and murders one of their neighbors, Dave gives Eddie a blowjob and they begin a sexual relationship. After Eddie dies at the end, Dave commits suicide offscreen. - There's some sort of industrial accident across the city that the characters think might be dangerous. They never investigate or bring it up again. - One of the people in the apartment is a man named Karl. Karl undergoes a religious revival and thinks Mona might be a demon, despite her helping them. He gets eaten by zombies while wandering a bookstore. - Alan might have gotten Ellen pregnant, or she might be pregnant by her (now deceased) husband. She requests that Mona get her abortion pills (which is why she and Eddie left the apartment complex before the climax) and then she decides not the take them. So Mona nearly gets violently raped and killed for no reason. Please share this video and like it and comment and all that other stuff. Make my suffering worth it.
The industrial accident is just normal New York I bet that’s why they never bring it up again lol. If the apocalypse happened in my area they’d still try to do road work on parts of I-95 to inconvenience survivors
There is a book titled Amygdala by Sam Fennah I would like you to read. It is also pretty mature I think it is just what you would need after reading this dumpsterfire. I have not yet read it but I want to.
I’d say this author needs professional help but I feel sorry for whichever therapist has to deal with him. “Yes Mr. Fingerman, I understand that name of yours made going through middle school really difficult but can we go back to discussing your fetishes.”
When you mentioned the umbrella effect of the "zombie repellent" I was honestly expecting you to say that it's revealed that she has a severed head of someone who actually had that ability in a bag. With these kinds of stories you never know
@@JamesTullos It would've been a sort of homage to Kingdom of the Krystal Skull. Though depending on how strong your feelings are of that movie it can have varying results
I juust remembered that there was a zombie repellent severed head in the Netflix _Resident Evil_ show, and I just had forgotten it because that show was mindnumimgly dull and inconsecuential
My drive to write comes from the want to prove I can write better than authors like this, is that petty? Yes. Is it unhealthy? Maybe. But it keeps me going
I'd like to recommend one of my favourite webtoons that deals with a zombie-esque apocalypse. The main difference is that the monsters are not zombies, but way more terrifying and more difficult to kill than zombies. The monsters in "sweet home" are based upon the desire of a person and according to their desire they transform into monsters. For example: There was a father whose son fell out of a window and died. He tried to catch his son but it was too late. His desire was to have arms long enough to catch his son thus he became a monster with long, strong arms. The monsters are also almost unkillable. They regenerate quickly and can only be killed or injured permanently if they are killed during the process of their monsterization, their bodies completely destroyed with professional military equipment, or with fire. To make matters worse: the monsters are intelligent. At least some of them are. For example triggering a fire alarm to extinguish themselves. Also, they are way faster and stronger than the average person and every single one has an unique ability. The main characters on the other hand are ordinary people. Well, the protagonist is an 18 year old suicidal boy whose family just died. He is shy and kind of an asshole at first but his heroic character traits shine through when he sees two orphaned children and decides to save them. I like Hyun Cha's character development a lot. Apart from him there is a diverse cast of characters, many loveable, quite a few loatheable. A rocker girl, who is a terribly noisy neighboor, a guy with the nickname "jesus freak", an old man, a guy who beats his wife, his wife who undergoes a cool character arc, an asshole weeb, a detective, a woman who lost her child a year ago and became crazy so she has a stroller with a pillow inside that she treats like a real baby (that woman is awesome btw), etc. As you can see, I'm obsessed with "sweet home", but I tried not to spoil it.
ive always been a ‘why would you not just kys if a zombie apocalypse happened’ person anyway but THIS universe brings that question to a whole new level😭 they sound crazy op
Damn… I shall never again feel bad that one of the characters in a book I’m writing was turned into a vampire against his will as his central plot point concerning trauma and grief. This whole book sounds absolutely horrific and like the author did not do any editing cause like if I saw that shit in a editing pass through I’d maybe think it wasn’t a good idea in the bizarro world universe where I’d think of stuff like that.
@@Skrill99 I feel like my main issue is I’m gonna make his character too suffer porn-y ya know? I want my characters to all still have moments of hope and happiness but damn his start is rough. I’m planning on working hard on a storyline where he works on dealing with the mental trauma from the situation and also getting his life back on track. So a Man vs Himself storyline. Then the sub plot will be revenge against the vamp that turned him. Idk it’s kinda cheezy but I like the idea of him taking out the vamp with help to kinda protect others and get closure for himself.
"Sumptuous calves" and "doll-like feet" is a real wombo combo huh. The follow-up line about jerking off to a painting of ankles makes me think the author shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a Foot Locker. Like they certianly have pictures of this guy around the shoe department in Nordstrom.
If you want something similar to the Zombie Shield thing, there's a comic called "Heart Eyes" that has something of a similar concept, although the shield is actually explained. And it's Lovecraftian monsters rather than zombies. Also, hell yeah Bloodywood.
Feet are one of those things where it's really weird to hear people waxing poetically about when you don't have that fetish and personally find them repulsive...
Wtf, are those quotes from Max Brooks and Robert Kirkman real ? Maybe they didn't read the book in full and just said they liked it for a quick paycheck...
I've been subscribed to you for years but haven't checked your videos in a while. When this video appeared in my timeline, I literally did a double take and thought "WHo the heck is this good-looking dude???" Aging did you well sir.
Thank you for letting me know of this book so I can avoid it like the plauge. At least Baby Teeth and The Wives are enjoyably batshit. This is just disgusting.
Headcanon Moana backstory: She is an alien who crashlanded on earth, and the residue from her ship was what started the apocalypse. The reason the zombies don't touch her is their instinctive fear of her otherness and stay away from her. Moana, despite being an alien, is stuck here. She can be an engineer or a scientist or something. Eventually, she adjusts to life and figures out language and realises she screwed earth over, so feeling guilty she goes around trying to find a cure/help survivors. By the time we meet Moana in the book she has started and failed to help three settlements. It always comes down to too many zombies overwhelming them. She goes on looking for company she is broken, hurt and feels lost. She wants to help but is held down by her past failures, so she remains aloof so she doesn't get hurt. Not to mention humans instinctively fear and hate her and only adjust to her over time from necessity. Allen is so taken in by her he is the first human to be instantly friendly towards her. She then starts helping them out but is weary. She knows the kinds of people and we go from there
the thing i noticed about max's quote on the book it doesn't really say anything about the novel itself, says plenty about the author which is still true even after that disaster of a novel also fingerman, for how terrible this novel is, still has other works out there which are genuinely good
Oh man freak'in yikes! That's so bad! Personally I don't like books where all the characters are assholes, even if they're interesting assholes, so this book wouldn't work for me, man not even Mona has interesting personality geez. I do really like the idea of a person having the ability to repel zombies, it's such a shame the author didn't make that idea the main part of the story. It seems like the author was too busy trying to be edgy/gross to bother making an interesting story, dang I hate that. Nice Bloodywood shirt James! They're great, love their music, hopefully they can help you feel better after this huge yuck of a book. Hayley ^_^
Same! My partner (who usually listens to short stories and podcasts that are horror based) was listening to this one audiobook/ podcast thing for like a month that drove me crazy. It was supposed to be a "realistic" peak into the mind of a woman in 90's/ early 2000's new York. Not only was she insufferable, not only was EVERY character insufferable, the references that were trying to date it just made it so clearly sound like a 20 year old who THINKS that's what a deep edgy cool girl new Yorker from the 90s would be like. I couldn't even just ignore it because the characters were so obnoxious, the person recording it had an equally obnoxious voice, AND it was constantly spewing completely false bs!!
Grimdark fantasy books are usually the only ones that can pull this off imo. Manifest Delusions, First Law and Second Apocalypse are all great examples.
Alright, I'm talking to publishers first thing in the morning. If that ...stuff can get past an editor, past QC, get typeset and made into a book, then my writing could totally crack the NYT bestsellers list. And my writing is shit.
Oh god why the weird fetish that are prety creepy. Ther is a webtoon thats a pretty good zombie horror that is beautiful, and deals wih people in apartment, good. There is a good main naratives, but it does an apartment with flawed people trapped right too. Also that they get developement and that its som wird psychological thing making pople fascinating zombie types. And its sweet and funny too.
@@woohoo3786 I don't know what the og poster had in mind but I think it's "sweet home". It fits the description and is absolutely fantastic. There are no zombies but monsters that have overrun civilization. I love it so much. If you don't know where you can read it I can send you a link.
Eating lunch during this video and almost had to stop when you started reading the direct quotes. I've read a lot of Dead Dove and this is...another level.
Ithought that the point of the Mona character was that there maybe other types - even worse types - of zombies ie the people who voluntarily disconnect from the world. But the rundown of fetishes at the end probably means thats not it.
The line you quoted had a word I couldn’t really make out. The auto transcription gave it as “book involved”. I had to scroll through the comments to find the actual word: Buchenwald. Oh nooooo. That makes the line so much worse :/
I would think it’d be interesting where she’s so boring as a character she’s immune because she doesn’t react to the zombies at all. Like the zombies don’t see her as human because she’s so devoid of character.
i am not opposed to "problematic" fiction but if youre making a proffesionally published book? you should have /some/ grace when it comes to the topic youre tackling.
Fun fact one of my favorite Warhammer 40k is called so this was a clickbaity for me lol. After watching this video I am like what kind of creep wrote this. Also you might actually enjoy 40k Pariah.
