I've read a shitty book until chapter 7 (of 12) today (it's short).
Saw an interview with the author, he described the book in an interesting way, sounded like an interesting person.
But what kind of person he is doesn't seem to have any effect on the work, it's a crude, unrealistic revenge fantasy of an agriculturer. The plot is simple: petroleum ends, winter, everything goes to shit. Instead of describing the individual lives of people suffering this catastrophee, he showers the reader with blanket statements about how everybody's going to burn shit to live and eat shit to live mostly. It's really dark, even for somebody like me, with complete morbid descriptions about how people will treat the elderly like shit or burn crosses because they're made of wood. Imo he seems to have made a too positive view of people there too, in his idea everyone will huddle together because of a shared fear, with stuff like farmers letting people inside because they'd get help in the spring (that's such a shake-y way to go at it, especially after you've told everyone how everyone will think only of his/her survival). I ended at the part where spring comes because I stopped caring and was sure that it's going to be full of his personal armchair stress-psychology.
In general it seems like something a pimpled 13 yo would write after getting called an idiot by the teacher, not what a 60 years old alpinist, biologist etc. would do. Stuff like "the farmers are going to survive but not their sons because they can only use their hands for jerking off and computers hyuk hyuk" makes me think "revenge fantasy".
Which he admits it to being actually, at least in part, he states about how he picks on the editors, bankers, rich people, politicians because he doesn't like them (I do not either, but get a grip you fuck, don't go writing shitty fanfics, or at least don't publish them).
3/10
+ultra edgy
+short
-ultra edgy
-idealistic
-boring