A review by eileenmrtn
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

1.0

Well. That was absolute shit. It wasn't clever, humorous, or even at the very least entertaining. It was an unpleasant chore to read, the joy entirely removed from a beloved hobby. Every OM character is the same, and her constant use of the disgusting is boring. The writing is boring. Also, characters being fat phobic, OK fine. Every character OM writes being fat phobic, as well as her painfully self-sabotaging interviews leads me to believe the author is a self described genius, who is also extremely fat phobic, who wrote this book as a joke to make money because of all of the 'morons making millions' (read her guardian interview, it's 10x more entertaining than this drivel). I'm officially washing my hands clean of OM.