Christian B reviewed Generation Bloodbath by Paul Curran
AI prompt: write out random lines about a bloody dystopia from the perspective of a 15 year old edgelord.
2 stars
An odd artifact that somehow got the attention of booktokers, but I'm not sure any of them actually read it. There's no discernible story, it's almost stream of consciousness in the form of page after page of disconnected lines, but they are only loosely related, cursory references to different events during some apocalypse or dystopian revolution, but overall details are scant and plot is nonexistent. Frankly I suspect this was written using AI prompts, haphazardly arranged by a human, and pushed through Amazon's Print on Demand service (a label in my copy identified it as such). The only redeeming feature is that it is an oddity, so if it ever hits the mainstream it will do so out of spite, kind of like how the Kardashians are famous simply for being famous. The kind of book dumb people mistake for profound. Despite feeling a little scammed, I don't regret reading it, but I would hate to read anything like it again.