Dril

I don't think I could possibly rate this. The big thing is that this has way more instances of crossing the line and is overall just way more grotesque than his tweets, even though it's clearly an extension of the same sense of humour.

For example, the first page after the contents and a sponsorship from SuperPretzel is a full page saying "thank you to Edward 'My White Slave' Rescued from Jail. A second Chance. Though you may be fully Caucasian I believe you possess the perseverance and mystical spirit of an African-American man in bondage" with an image of Hillary Clinton. Which is obviously oblique commentary on the Clintons' use of prison labour in their time in the governor's mansion in Arkansas, and Hillary's later talking about this as if it was a good thing. But it's clearly also a lot more shocking than most of what he tweets usually.

The justification would be that the whole book is a grotesque. The whole book, and the dril character, is a horrible amalgamation of all the worst people and ideas of masculinity. When you read a page like that it's supposed to be vile and be part of depicting dril as just a horrible awful person. How acceptable a reason you consider that will vary a lot.

There's lots of incredibly funny, outright uncontrollable laughter, parts in the book that don't touch on "edgy" things but even there it often leans into the grossest part of his content. Both in the very explicit sense, like a full page illustration of the McShitter in full flow, and also just a general sense of grossness even in the words.

The level of creativity in the book in general is incredible though. He really goes all in on creating this really horrible world, all the worst parts of US culture and society as seen through a glass darkly. There's so many details everywhere that are extremely funny and show a lot of effort. Tons of art. Incredible understanding of graphics design to create a disorienting but recognisable format. It really feels like a full guidebook to a world kind of like but not quite ours. There's so many references to ancient dril tweets but fleshed out - an ad for MPregCraig's Mpreg Dolphin Cove 3D, the man in the "BABE SMOOCHER" jacket, the story of the thursday nite rant, the guy who thought he was actual Jack Nicholson...

Basically there's a lot to love in this book if you enjoy what dril tweets but also there's a decent amount of "edgy" stuff in it that your mileage will vary on and I can't really give it a rating as a whole haha… (more)