Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

No. This is a collection of meaningless garbage someone is attempting to market as edgy. I'm no prude but the title is ridiculous and all story titles are in lower-case for no apparent reason. Not only were none of the stories I read in this collection enjoyable, none of them even made sense. UPDATE: 12/16/14 The author, Val Tenterhosen, felt it was necessary to respond to my review, not to me personally but to his twenty-one thousand followers on twitter. He said and I quote, "Someone just gave my book one star and said it makes no sense. THEY make no sense. My book is a work of pure wisdom." Pure wisdom, indeed. This "book" should be listed in self-help. I think we all know you better get out a pad and pen and be ready to take some notes when you open a book titled "dagger****ers". When you get to the dedication where he thanks the girl who blew him in a chicken coup and refers to his penis as a "trousermose" (I'm assuming he meant trouser-mouse and not trouser-moose, but either way) you know you are in store for a literary journey like never before. Let's start with what Val says about the "book" himself. He refers to the contents of the "book" as "fifty-odd fragments of dark thoughts". I suppose that's accurate, they do come across more like random thoughts than actual stories. The product details list the page numbers at seventy-three. Fifty stories he calls fragments over seventy-three pages leads to an average story length of 1.46 pages per story. Are there stories in this collection? Yes. Are they any good? No. The few entries contained in this "book" that I will be lenient enough to call stories have no character development, or plot. There's absolutely no point to it other than him trying to write something shocking, which is impossible because we never learn to care about any of his characters. It's obvious that Val's focus is on being edgy, gritty and shocking and not actually to spin a cohesive tale, hence why most of them end after a page and a half. The only positive I can say about this "book" is that it appears to only be in ebook format and no trees have been sacrificed to this nonsense. But just in case that ever happens allow me to quote his "book": "Burn this paper if you find it. You're going to love the way it smells." I agree. I'm sure that the smell of burning parchment is far preferable to the figurative smell of feces he is masquerading as a "book". And best as I can tell, that was the shortest "story" contained in the book, ringing in at a grand total of fifteen words. But it's not a story. If you are seriously that insistent of giving your money away for this, please, read the sample first. Read the sample for Troy Blackford's Robbed of Sleep. The first story will be Val Tenterhosen's "P.V.C. Ceremony". It will give you a good idea of what his M.O. is. There is nothing to be gained from reading this "work", another word I use loosely. Stephen King said writers have a million words of crap inside them they have to get out before they get something good. Val is obviously still well within his million words of crap and you shouldn't have to pay for it. There is no emotional connection demonstrated here, except with the author, his wallet, and perhaps his ego. I just noticed this book is listed in "Death, Grief and Loss" under poetry. It's fitting because I've felt nothing but grief and loss over the death of my time wasted reading it and the brain cells sacrificed to trying to comprehend it. And there is nothing even remotely poetic about this. Stay away.