 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday. Today's video is a request from my buddy Paul. I believe I couldn't find the request again, but I did remember him asking. I believe it was you Paul. If it wasn't, I apologize for shouting you out for no reason. And if it was somebody else, I apologize for forgetting you. But the question was the request was, will you do a Top 5 Friday for Craziest Women? I got to looking around and I didn't ask them if I could do the Top 5 Craziest People instead of women because I didn't just want to focus on women. I literally couldn't find 5 books with Crazy Women. I found, let's see here, 1, 2, I found 3. And then I had to fill in the spot with 2 dudes, but also I couldn't just do guys. So if I was going to do Crazy Women, my OCD would have kicked in also and I would have had it done 3, sorry not 3, 5 dudes also. So I was in a weird predicament so it wasn't that I didn't just want to focus on women. It was because I literally couldn't find 5 books that I own that I remember having crazy female characters. Anyway, jumping into the list, at number 5, this is Top 5 Craziest Characters that I've read, is Frank from In The Me So Soup. This has one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever read. I'm not going to go into spoilers, but it happens in the restaurant and it involves an ear. That's all I'm going to say. And no, it's not like an ice pick in the side of the head. It's far more disturbing than that. In fact, the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes and the more I feel like if I didn't put it at my number 1 most disturbing, I'd be too disservice to the scene because it truly is, for me anyways, the way it is written is just so plain. The language is almost like Hemingway-ish. Very no wasted words. This is what happened in plain language and that's what bothered me. And Frank is just a, I can't remember if he's a sociopath, he's definitely a psychopath. In The Me So Soup at number 5. At number 4, this might come as a surprise because it's not higher on the list given how much I love this book and this author, but it is in the top, it's in my top 5. So you, by Caroline Kepnis, Joe Goldberg, that shit crazy. What makes Joe so crazy is he's relatable. She makes you like the guy, but he is a terrible, terrible human being and like I said, he's bad shit crazy. He doesn't come off though. I think one of the things that makes Joe so scary when you get past how charming he is, is that he doesn't come off as crazy. He comes off as purely logical until you actually read deeper into it of course, well actually you don't have to read deeper into it, but until you realize how sick this dude is, it's amazing that he can even function and that he hasn't got caught yet. Let's see here. Next up, I have a friend of Caroline Kepnis. In fact, the reason why I read this book was because Caroline Kepnis was talking about it, which is from fashion victim, I can't remember, name Anya. Anya from fashion victim, hashtag fashion victim, that's important. Hashtag fashion victim, another reason why I had to read this, it says bitches get stitches and that made me chuckle. Especially there's a, I don't know if you guys can see it, but there's one whole female character and this one doesn't have a head and that comes, it ties into the book at some point and it's great. But Anya is completely psychotic. I love reading about her character in the same exact way that I love reading about Joe. This one was just a lot of fun. It's well written. It's a more accessible version of, not my pet monster, American Psycho. Why was I going my pet monster? Where'd that come from? This is how my brain works. Patrick, if you're watching this, he's impressed that I can do these in all one take, mostly. Because I just sit here and I just talk. I'm just word vomit about the books that I love. But yeah, Anya from hashtag fashion victims at number three. But I like that the reason I put that, Anya felt crazier than Joe, but they're actually kind of on par. So I would actually put both of those like number four, both tied for number four, tied for number three. Both of those books felt, they feel similar. They're really nothing alike, but they feel similar in their crazy. At number two, I got to look up this character's name also, Mike. Mike from our kind of cruelty. What disturbed me about Mike is throughout the whole book, I questioned the wrong person and I felt like an utter douchebag by the time I finished the book because gone girl, you, so many other books had trained me to think and look at female, the female antagonist, even sometimes the protagonist in a certain light, always question, always question, always question. And by the end of it, I felt terrible at the end of the book. But also, it is a testament to how crazy this dude is that he believes, so you believe. And that's frightening. That's like a Hitler mindset. And that bothered the hell out of me. So Mike from our kind of cruelty is at number two. Let's see here. A number one is, of course, it's going to be here. If it wasn't here, people would just spam the doobly doo with where the is so and so. I'm trying not to cuss y'all because my Dean Coots review got demonetized. The only reason I'm reading those books is because I'm literally getting paid to read them. Actually, I'm having fun with Dealey also. So it's six of one, half dozen, the other. Does that term even work there? But I can have fun with my friend Dealey and then I can come back and I can, you know, I can make a little bit of a coin, you know, reading those books. Because they're they're insanely popular. But anyways, I'm rambling. Sorry, I'm a bit manic right now. So I'm just going on and on. But at number one, we have Misery or Annie Wilkes from Misery. So I don't think I have to explain this to anybody. Annie Wilkes is the craziest character I've ever come across. She's also sympathetic at times. I think that's one of the reasons why, well, again, all these books kind of have the same feel. You know, you have this person who is crazy as hell, but the author somehow made them relatable. And maybe that's why I find this, you know, I find this kind of subgenre kind of deal so appealing is because, you know, there's we're a bunch of gray areas and we're not all bad. We're not all good. And anytime someone takes that time to actually make a crazy person sympathetic and I'm not talking about just mental illness. I'm just talking like crazy psycho killers, that kind of thing. I'm not I'm not shaming anybody, that's for sure. But with these characters, you read about them and that there's always that shining note of either positivity or stability just right there. You know, like either they were fine at one point in time or they or they've always been crazy. But every now and again that the sanity shines through. I think that's a terrifying concept also. I think my buddy Landon would agree too because he loves like Dreamcatcher. One of his favorite parts is how dude is stuck in his own head and he can't do anything to, you know, to to change that. And that's pretty much just what mental illness is. But of course, these are the ones that are the craziest in my point of view. And if I hope also that I got the theme of this episode right and Paul wasn't just asking for like the wildest craziest, you know, women or I hope I got this got this right. So let me know if I did down there in the doodly-doo. And of course, leave your suggestions, especially if any of the books are like this one. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another Top 5 Friday and a rambling one. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!