(Fuck) DJ Hawkins

Fuck you, D J Hawkins [sic]. You managed to ruin one of the best book tests to come out in the last decade, The End by Angelo Carbone.

The book used for The End is obviously not an actual novel. It’s a fake one. Similar to Ted Karmilovich’s mentalism cult classic MOABT.

It’s quite obvious that there is a chance that someone might look up the title of the book you’ve performed with, right? We can all agree on that. It could be for a multitude of reasons. It could be that the person you’re performing for loves and reads books often (a perfect choice of person to do a book test for) and is curious about reading that book later. If the person you’re performing for is more skeptical in nature, they may want to look up the book to sniff something out because they’ve never heard of the novel.

If someone does that to your copy of The End, and you haven’t rebound the book, you’re screwed. You know why? Some moron by the name of “D J Hawkins” on the Green Latrine decided it’d be a smart idea to write the title of the fake novel on his post. Try it. Google the title and author of the book and see what the first fucking link is. If you don’t know the title of the fake novel, you can see it on the product page.

Imagine all the work and effort to create and design this elaborate fake novel. Fellow writer Jerry confirms the book actually reads and the sentences make sense, despite not being well-written nor having a good story, but who cares.

Imagine all of that, plus all the people who paid eighty plus dollars to receive said book test.

Now imagine throwing all of that in the toilet because some troglodyte got his grubby little fingers to type the title in his meaningless addition to the thread. You can still safely use the book, but only if you’ve rebound it to have a different cover.

MOABT 2.0 by Karmilovich has been out for almost 15 years, and this has never been a problem. Somehow D J (Dumb Jackass? Is this anything?) Hawkins managed to screw this up within days of release. Geniuses Patrick G and Paul R manage to join in and continue to name it as well as name the author.

Thanks guys!

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