Have you ever read one of those books where once you put it down you feel like you yourself have become a better person by osmosis? …that the spark of good inside you has discovered new ways of taking the reins and making its influence felt in the world? …that the protagonist has taken you by the hand, pulled you into the pages, and then turned you around to look back at your world with new eyes to see previously unguessed-at hints of possibility for human progress and redemption?

This is pretty much the opposite of those.