If you lived in an alternate dimension where Trump didn’t run for president in 2015 and read a fictional book about an alternate universe where media personality Donald Trump became president for two non-consecutive terms by creating a far-right conspiracy cult, what would your book review be?
I mean it was so ridiculous that The Simpsons had that whole riff on “We’ve inherited quite a budget crisis since President Trump” and people laughed about it.
I’d have given it 4 or 5 stars and said something like “a frightening vision of a possible dystopian distant future.” I’ve known our system was in decline since the Bush 2 Administration, but I never imagined it could break down this much this quickly.
I don’t know why you would rate a fictional story poorly for being made up/fantastical. The biggest benefit of fiction is it needn’t concern itself with things being possible or not.
Honestly you can’t answer this without having read an actual book because what makes a book good or bad is the skill of the writer, not the premise.
Might work as a farce or parody, but no one would take it seriously—those events stretch the “suspension of disbelief” too far and the audience will reject it as too impossible.
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Personally, I would have given it 2 stars for being an interesting read, but too unrealistic and absurd to take seriously.
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If I told my high school history teacher what was happening, she would make me sit in the hall until class was over.
This book is too far out there. It must have been the origin story for the movie Idiocracy.
I mean it was so ridiculous that The Simpsons had that whole riff on “We’ve inherited quite a budget crisis since President Trump” and people laughed about it.
4 out of 5 not Orwells best work.
I would say it’s the Republican version of the West Wing.
I’d have given it 4 or 5 stars and said something like “a frightening vision of a possible dystopian distant future.” I’ve known our system was in decline since the Bush 2 Administration, but I never imagined it could break down this much this quickly.
It would either be a number 1 seller or not even allowed to be sold in stores
Those people live in the worst time-line.
I don’t know why you would rate a fictional story poorly for being made up/fantastical. The biggest benefit of fiction is it needn’t concern itself with things being possible or not.
Honestly you can’t answer this without having read an actual book because what makes a book good or bad is the skill of the writer, not the premise.
Let’s all give our condolences to the Onion, they’ve been outdone by the Trump admin💔
Might work as a farce or parody, but no one would take it seriously—those events stretch the “suspension of disbelief” too far and the audience will reject it as too impossible.
Basically go look at any review of “The Dead Zone” by Stephen King. Drumpf is 100% Greg Stillson.
I would regrettably conclude that Carl Hiaasen had gone too far in search of laughs.
The cartoonish evil, overdone incompetence—and resulting adoration by his cult members—would read like a lazy parody.
Not giving him even a single redeeming quality would seem like the author was just phoning it in.
Carl Hiaasen is too good of a writer to have produced such a one-dimensional character. For that we can be grateful.