Sean Penn's debut book is getting gleefully torn apart by critics who are calling it a 'garbage novel'
"What have you done this time, Sean Penn? What is this book-shaped thing that lies before us? Is it just a lark — a nutty novel you wrote because you’re famous and they let you?"
"Penn delivers prose as if he were gunning for a prize from the American Alliteration Association."
In a review with with "What Is Sean Penn Thinking?" in the headline, The Washington Post points out alliterations in the book including “Dreams died like destiny’s deadwood,” "Spurley sloppily slurps,” and “racial rancor by Ruger in a country rife with rule of law.”
"Scattered throughout is the sort of gleeful racism and misogyny that qualifies Penn’s work as 'darkly comic.'"
HuffPost calls the book a "garbage novel" that is "nonsensical, unpleasant and left me sweaty with mingled horror and confusion."
The book's epilogue is a poem about the #MeToo movement that is not getting well-received.
anyone who ever gave sean penn a compliment is complicit in this and should be in prison https://t.co/U60lPEeYkA pic.twitter.com/Uwth6HGxGx
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) March 27, 2018Room full of people who asked for a poem by alleged domestic abuser Sean Penn about #MeToo pic.twitter.com/AeKbXaC7Nx
— Cher (@thecherness) March 20, 2018Sean Penn after writing the epilogue poem to his novel pic.twitter.com/cNj2G1MiYD
— Jacob Shamsian (@JayShams) March 28, 2018Popular Right Now
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