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- Oct 6, 2021
The problem is Pat just doesn't understand what it takes to write a good and engaging story, as he has demonstrated repeatedly.Any kind of parody requires a far better writer than Pat.
What he fails to grasp is that to write a good funny parody, you have to be basically a nerd over the subject you are parodying.
And this idea is a parody of A Christmas Carol, even if it was written as a serious and period accurate detective novel, it would still be a parody in the sense that it is an offbeat retelling.
If he could write an ultra violent tale in something close enough to be mistaken for Dickens on a laudanum and raw gin binge, then it would be an interesting read.
The fact that he has been trying to basically write a sub par Terry Pratchett novel is just layers of offensive.
It’s disrespectful to Dickens, disrespectful to the late Pratchett, it’s even disrespectful to the fucking muppets who at least put effort into their retelling.
His efforts are lazy, incompetent and forced, and stuffed full of bad grammar, poor understanding of Science for a so called Sci Fi author, and milquetoast leftist moralizing.
He's just not a competent writer, certainly not enough to do a Dickens Parody justice.
He'd be better publishing a compilation of his Xitter arguments with Bob Gayporn, his much better brother, his toilet and his colon.
At least they'd be interesting and funny.
I'd buy it if he did.
I wasted a free audio book credit on one of his books because I lost a bet and I feel like demanding a refund even though it cost me nothing but pain.