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“At a glance, Mike comes off like a 1980s teen movie bully on downers.” - Playboy Magazine“…Mike Ma bragged about crashing a White House press conference.” - The Huffington Post. Now, you can read his long-awaited first book. Harassment Architecture has been described as an almost plotless and violent march against what the author calls the "lowerworld". It's the story of
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I've never read a book that's made me audibly laugh on one page and then made me want to run my car into a power plant on the next, until now.
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Chaotic 21st century pastiche of Hemingway, Kierkegaard, Kaczynski, and the guy in your econ class who wears combat boots and carries a gallon of water all day. As much anti-literature as it is anti-world. I completely disavow this novel.
“We can have Rome again, if we smash enough BMW windows”
He’s not saying to burn down society. He’s not saying to create chaos. He’s not saying to foment panic and fear. He’s not saying to go on a 3 day sleep deprived rambling tirade though the city.
The best book released in 2019, get it before Amazon bans it!
A quirky read which struck a number of chords with me, despite all the macho posturing and attention grabbing shock tactics. It’s another ‘Revolt Against the Modern World’, with all its post industrial revolution developments, which take man further away from nature, at the expense of his/her well-being. By setting his writings within an unconvincing fictional mould he is able - just about - to get away with some of his more outrageous outbursts.
The planet is poisoned and populated by ugliness o ...more
The planet is poisoned and populated by ugliness o ...more
Reminds me of myself at 16 years old. So angry! So bitter! So eager to lash out at our oppressors, which seemed at that time to be the whole world (though I disliked other white men just as strongly as Ma holds them up as idols). I probably wouldn't have read this had I known what it was: Mike Ma was a Breitbart guy, a big friend of Milo Yiannopoulos (a gay little imp I've always found rather amusing and cute, hardly the threat to democracy people made him out to be), and while I'm a right-leani
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Imagine Catcher in the Rye, but not complete dogshit.
The most accurate portrayal of 21st century life I’ve yet seen.
Mike Ma is the exact image of what a spoiled, rotten spawn of the Joker and Patrick Bateman with literary pretentions would look like. Now imagine that that same creature popped so many 'red pills' that he then vomited this book, which seems intended to function as a dilapidated shrine for his shoddy, trite brand of nihilism and boring hatred towards humanity.
Granted, having had 0% knowledge of the author beforehand, the work was funny for a page or two, as it looked as though he was trying a se ...more
Granted, having had 0% knowledge of the author beforehand, the work was funny for a page or two, as it looked as though he was trying a se ...more
A misanthropic book in the same vein as Palahniuk, Ellis, Celine, and Sartre. It’s obviously a more modern approach to these authors and less story driven than Ellis or Palahniuk. What I really mean by comparing him to these authors is that it’s in the same manner and sub genre of transgressive writing. Definitely worth reading if any of those authors are your cup of tea.
The rankest sewer would be a breath of fresh air beside the cursed landscape of our cities today. Not enough nooks anymore for all the dregs to scurry at dawn’s beckon. Brazen, hungry, they teem the streets in broad daylight. The Wall Street cannibals, the infectious sodomites, the satanist elites, the infanticidal death cult of feminism, the sjw harpies blistering with insanity, hounding, frothing, scowling, their dead soulless eyes.
Dopers, politicians, preachers, whores, hippies, liars, pusher ...more
Dopers, politicians, preachers, whores, hippies, liars, pusher ...more
Harassment Architecture is a look towards all the vice that consumes modern man, and a great conversation starter. Don't worry, it's a dark comedy.
"I'm not a scumbag, I checked if there was any significant damage to his car beforehand - there was, that's why I left."
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"I'm not a scumbag, I checked if there was any significant damage to his car beforehand - there was, that's why I left."
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If Tyler Durden, Patrick Bateman, and 4chan all got together to write a book, this is exactly what it would be.
If you are easily offended, this book will disgust you and you will hate it. If you don't take it too seriously and you have a dark sense of humor, you will probably find this book really funny. ...more
If you are easily offended, this book will disgust you and you will hate it. If you don't take it too seriously and you have a dark sense of humor, you will probably find this book really funny. ...more
Modernity is miasmatic and illogical, we all glean it's insidious nature in flashes. This book is like dunking your head into a trough of understanding and a composed fury at this spiritual hole into which our species has been dug. Who dug the hole? If that's not obvious you're a fucking idiot but this book will make you less of one, you idiot. Bless you Mike, you exude the only energy that could possibly make such a morally bankrupt age bareable. In conclusion purchase your weight in artillery
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Fantastic and disturbing, maybe it's just disturbing because I can relate with the protagonist. I honestly don't know how I feel about it but I'm okay with that. So many books are put in neat little boxes, adorned with nice little ribbons. This isn't that, this book challenges you. It points out how disgusting this world has become in many ways, maybe Evola was right, maybe we're living in the Kali Yuga. Anyways, this book is well worth the read.
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I disavow.
Burn it down so that we may return to an older, purer world where the ancient wisdom of our elders is respected and we are once again filled with spiritual wonderment by the mysteries of our universe.
There aren't many books that I revisit as often as I revisit this one for a good laugh. As much as this book does provide hours and hours of comedic content, it also provides important insights on the world as we know it today. Every chunk of text is delivered in a cool and optical manner that causes the reader to empathise with the protagonist on a near-molecular level. The reader is forced to sit down face-to-face with many situations that he knows all too well, and has been provided the words
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Hemingway in a skull mask, this book captures the unease and desire for chaos in our times. Pulls of comedic radicalization and takes the people that are killing our world by the horns. Very stream of consciousness style writing, somewhat surreal.
An entertaining, but sometimes incomprehensible rant against modernity. I would recommend trying it out. Will get you pumped up, one way or another.
Accelerationism in practice. Highly entertaining and thought provoking. Was better than expected from a meme book like this.
Disregard gluten, open carry an RPG.
Three feet on the gas pedal, never stop accelerating.
Three feet on the gas pedal, never stop accelerating.
I think that giving this book any sort of real rating would be disingenuous - but if I had to, it'd be both 1 and 5 stars at the same time, so... I'll settle for 3.
I disavow the hatred, bigotry and violence expressed in the book, but there were many passages and even whole chapters I quite liked, and at its core this book is a critique of our current state of society - and the state of mankind - that I largely agree with and I am sure his opinions resonate with many others. Also, admittedly, I ...more
I disavow the hatred, bigotry and violence expressed in the book, but there were many passages and even whole chapters I quite liked, and at its core this book is a critique of our current state of society - and the state of mankind - that I largely agree with and I am sure his opinions resonate with many others. Also, admittedly, I ...more
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A collection of thoughts, dreams, ideas and philosophies that barely adhere to a coherent progression. But that is not a negative. Part of the draw of this short book is the thrill of deciphering these fragmented sections.
Without having or needing a narrative, it is an engaging and obsessive read, partly in thanks to the occasionally bleak and breathtaking writing, and partly due to the intoxicating auto-dialogue.
This book can be read as one long and branching fever dream, that occasionally cr ...more
Without having or needing a narrative, it is an engaging and obsessive read, partly in thanks to the occasionally bleak and breathtaking writing, and partly due to the intoxicating auto-dialogue.
This book can be read as one long and branching fever dream, that occasionally cr ...more
This book needed to be more.
I foresee a new right-wing revolution in our generation, but this isn't the Mein Kampf that could, no, should have brought it about. I wanted this book to be more. Still, as I turned the pages, I slowly felt my heart be let down by boring personal fantasy after another that not only tried too hard to be edgy but took itself too seriously (the author has admitted this). This book is a good start and an example for other young writers on what to avoid and what strikes a ...more
I foresee a new right-wing revolution in our generation, but this isn't the Mein Kampf that could, no, should have brought it about. I wanted this book to be more. Still, as I turned the pages, I slowly felt my heart be let down by boring personal fantasy after another that not only tried too hard to be edgy but took itself too seriously (the author has admitted this). This book is a good start and an example for other young writers on what to avoid and what strikes a ...more
This is the aimless younger Millennial equivalent of the Wall Street yuppie Patrick Bateman (American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis) -- nihilistic and misanthropic vignettes, mostly with no plot, sometimes interesting, often cringe. Unclear if it's political -- it's more like 4chan trolling -- but it's mostly just disturbing.
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A narration and series of vignettes about a character who critiques and attacks the world. Darkly funny, polemic, sincere, a general good read. Could easily be finished in an afternoon.
Perfect book to read in these... trying times.
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