 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to another Stephen King review. This is not a Thursday Theorist. The Thursday Theorist should be after this video. But this is a spoiler-free review of Stephen King's new book, Elevation. If you follow me on Goodreads or Twitter or just about anywhere, even Instagram, you know I hated this book. It has the same exact problem that Sleeping Beauties did in that at some point in time he gets lost in his message and forgets to entertain. There's not one point part in this book that I liked. I didn't like the writing. I didn't like the characters. I didn't like anything about it. I am on the same political spectrum side of things as Stephen King. And also, I'm going to go ahead and tell you right now if there's any discussion whatsoever about politics down in the in the comment section of this. I'm just going to delete you. I don't want to start any kind of political debate. That's not what this channel is about. So please either don't comment this one time. Don't comment because I can care less about your political views. I want to know if you liked the book for what it was. If you didn't like the book because of the politics, just simply say I didn't like the book because of the politics. But the problem here is I didn't like the book because of where it goes. I will go into more detail in the spoiler review or the Thursday theorist video. But this book just isn't any fun. Stephen King supposedly wanted to write this to try and make people happy. The thing about it is he's only going to make a certain subset of people happy. And when you're only shooting for your your pools, you know the people in your pool to have fun, I think that's a dick move. And that's all this book is. On the same side, if you're the type of person who likes skipping Christmas and you know you like John Grisham stuff and you like skipping Christmas, you'll probably like this because it's more the same. It's basically an author trying to say okay I usually talk about the worst things in life but here's me trying to do a positive thing. That's fine. If you try to be positive for everybody, if you're only aiming at one group of people to make one group of people smile, that's where I call bullshit. There is nothing in this book that says all people should get along. There's nothing in this book that says that. This book's message is everybody needs to be accepted. Everybody needs to see the error of their ways and come on to this side. Now while I might agree with that, go ahead, rage down there in the comment section. Like I said, you make it political, I'm gonna delete you. But I am on that side of things. I don't like that side of things in my art or my literature or whatever you want to call it. I don't like that direct approach. A long time ago in one of my written reviews, in fact somebody brought this up on my review of Elevation on Goodreads. I said in a review that I would never ever give a Stephen King book one star. That's because they're usually well written. There's usually something entertaining about it. But this, this is a complete toss away. This is something that I read and I was like, I actually hate this. Which is funny, again, because I'm on the same side as Stephen King. I am, if you want to label me anything, I am a liberal. This book is garbage and I'm a liberal. Now another problem with this book is it's 146 pages. You see how small this is? I'm gonna hold up a full size Stephen King book. You see the difference, the size difference? This book right here, I just grabbed the first one I had over here for the next video I'm gonna be shooting, is 368 pages. The price of this book is $27.99. This book is 146 pages. Huge margins, big font. This book is $20. If you went down to Barnes Noble, Books a Million, whatever and bought this, this book is $20. Luckily, I bought this book on Amazon. I got it for $11, but that's still overpriced for what is essentially a padded short story. Now the book is broken up into shorter, shorter, well one chapter's really long and then there's a bunch of shorter chapters. The audiobook literally comes with extra short stories because there's no short stories in here, but the audiobook comes with extra short stories because without them the book would only be three hours long. Anyways, there's so much wrong with this. I could go on forever, but I'm trying to keep this as a spoiler free review. I'm trying my best here. I didn't like a single thing about it. If you'd like to talk about the book without bringing politics into this nonsense, please comment down below. I'd love to hear from you even if you liked it. That's fine, but once again, don't go off on a tangent about politics even if you are on the same side as Stephen King and myself. I just don't want to hear it or I don't want to read it anyways. So until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!