John Olson's Reviews > The Day of the Rope: Book One

This book was recommend to me by a friend and I went into it with an open mind. After reading the first chapter, it was clear that this book was going to be a total trainwreck. There is no cohesive plot tying the story together, but rather a collection of random thoughts that came into the author’s head that he felt that he needed to get into writing.

One chapter will be talking about video games, then switch to the author pointing out several times that he’s upset that women have the right to vote, then randomly state that Obama ruined the country and claim that he was bisexual, as if that has to do with anything else in the novel.

The characters lack depth and all of the white male characters think and behave exactly the same. Everyone else is a caricature: black people are all thugs and drug addicts, Muslims and Jews are all evil, all women are incompetent, angry leftist feminists, who (and I’m not making this up) have plans to cut off the genitals of any man who they believe is a right-winger.

In one instance, the character “Eve” wakes up in an apartment after a night of heavy drinking next to a black man. You know he’s black because the author mentions it several times, as if it actually matters, and lives in a black neighborhood where all the other blacks blast loud rap music and do drugs.

I began to wonder if the author has ever met another human being in real life. I decided to check him out online, and after watching a few of his videos, it’s clear that he’s a depraved, cynical, racist nihilist, who stated in a video that “America is beyond repair.” The ending of the novel is an obvious call for violence and if you view his videos online you’ll see comments like “violence solves everything”, or “we must bring back the rope and kill” with thousands of likes.

Ironically the author scoffs at the idea of people calling him racist, yet will post photos of black people featured in advertisements and say that it’s all a globalist agenda and everything is terrible.

I regret having read the book, and the best thing I can say about it is that it is short.