Where Angels Fear
3 min readMay 21, 2021

Book Review

I found myself referencing remarks I made here:

Coincidentally, a couple of days later, I stumbled upon this:

https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-cursed-comments/

Yep.

As an aside, let me just take this opportunity to remind you never … ever … to read My Little Blue Dress by Bruno Maddox.

Seriously … I’m not joking … this isn’t some ‘reverse psychology’ trick to get you to read it (there are limits to even my predilection for wanton acts of psychological torture) … it truly is not only the worst book ever written but the worst book that ever will have been written ¹ — avoid it all costs … it really is so bad that, if the only way to ensure nobody else can force you to experience it is to kill yourself, so that they can’t even communicate with you the way they would with Helen Keller, then you should take that escape route.

“Books are stupid

This was the first book I have read since leaving school

I am never reading another one as long as I live”

Amazon

On the plus side, the ‘author’ of this travesty has seemingly not subsequently perpetrated any other crimes against humanity and we can only pray that he sees fit to continue not doing so ³ — the best review I ever saw of the movie Highlander was Highlander (There Can Be Only One): Unfortunately, one is already too many” … and that goes infinity-plus-one times as much for My Little Blue Dress.

My Little Blue Dross more like.


¹ When the Universe collapses in on itself in the heat death of the Big Crunch … when Space and Time cease to be and History itself becomes history … no other literary, televisual or cinematic work, screen-or-stageplay, videogame, or any other form of storytelling that might have arisen between now and then will ever have come even remotely close to being as execrable in concept ² or execution.

² Seriously, it doesn’t even reach the giddy heights of ‘hackneyed’/’clichéd’ — the author’s baby … their concept … wasn’t even that vibrant and exciting … it was stillborn from the moment of conception.

³ As a reviewer on Amazon observed, it seems likely that the only reason it ever saw even the light of the basement in which stood the vat in which its excrescence was spawned, let alone that of day, was that Maddox worked for the publisher … and it seems equally likely that it only got that far thanks to his having some kompromat on the publisher, or one (or more) of the senior staff/shareholders — something so terrible that they greenlit its publication rather than have their sins exposed .

⁴ Worse even than filmed evidence of their engaging in sadistic rituals of paedophilia, torture and cannibalism (to which I would rather admit myself than ever have my name linked in any way with My Little Blue Dress!)

⁵ You couldn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, call it a film.

Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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