I hated King Rat so much I didn’t finish it, and left a bad review in good reads.

In fact, I felt so bad about writing that mean review that I deleted my profile and quit goodreads. King Rat is the book that got me off of goodreads! So that’s a positive.

I really love the New Crobuzon books, and I made the mistake of reading King Rat right after those. It, obviously, wasn’t what I was looking for. Also, the lengthy descriptions of what an amazing DJ the main character was were astoundingly annoying. Like, seriously, I do not care about DJs. I might even say I actively dislike DJs—the cooler they are, the more I hate them! And the DJ in this book is soooooooooop cool. (Eye rolls)

Also James Clavell wrote a way better book with that same title. It’s fictional story about a deadly prison camp in WWII. Clavell himself was interred in that camp during the war.

Daily YouTube user, fairly online person. I’ve never heard of any of these things except the WWE and I’ve seen PewDiePie’s name in headlines, but I’ve never seen a second of what they do.

I’m not saying this to brag. Rather that our media choices are so infinitely broad right now, the top viewed things in the world can still be virtually unknown to a mainstream user.