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A review by merkatt
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
2.0
Gonna put as much effort in to my review as it felt Joe Hill did in these stories.
Negatives:
- More baseball references than ghosts
- Many stories had no ending
- Many stories either were not horror, or required the audience to make huge, unaided leaps in logic for them to become horror
- Absolutely unacceptably frequent use of the “R” word (once is too much, and it was almost once or more per story)
- Does Joe Hill have an issue with women? I think Joe Hill has an issue with women. Yes I know this is *supposed* to be a horror book so the characters are supposed to be bad, and a writer’s characters do not always have to perform actions condoned by the writer, but when every story features misogyny and other grossness with how women are written and characterized and discussed and treated, you start to notice the pattern
- Does Joe Hill have an issue with people who experience neurodivergent disabilities? See: previous two points
Positives:
- A couple of the stories were interesting, well written, and contained almost no baseball references
Joe Hill is probably not for me.
Negatives:
- More baseball references than ghosts
- Many stories had no ending
- Many stories either were not horror, or required the audience to make huge, unaided leaps in logic for them to become horror
- Absolutely unacceptably frequent use of the “R” word (once is too much, and it was almost once or more per story)
- Does Joe Hill have an issue with women? I think Joe Hill has an issue with women. Yes I know this is *supposed* to be a horror book so the characters are supposed to be bad, and a writer’s characters do not always have to perform actions condoned by the writer, but when every story features misogyny and other grossness with how women are written and characterized and discussed and treated, you start to notice the pattern
- Does Joe Hill have an issue with people who experience neurodivergent disabilities? See: previous two points
Positives:
- A couple of the stories were interesting, well written, and contained almost no baseball references
Joe Hill is probably not for me.