i have had a hard time sticking to reading for the past few months, some of which are related to extreme brainrot, so when i found out about that an scp foundation book was published i told myself i would finish it no matter what.

i had no expectations but it was a bit of a letdown. keep in mind i cannot stand cosmic horror, and this had way more cosmic horror than i expected. i remember i completely stopped reading this for a few weeks when a chapter opened with grotesque descriptions of crawling fingers and dead-looking breathing corpses or something. it's just boring to me

the ways qntm kept recontextualizing characters, events, and setting were very cool, but it required a lot of slogging through sloppy writing to get through. for example, a huge pet peeve i had with qntm's style is that there's just...just too much of this annoying ellipses way of structuring dialogue. the war between memetic entities and the antimemetic divison was also not explored nearly as much as i would have liked it to, it mostly takes form in a fairly surface-level good vs evil situation. this was more science fiction genre writing than scp foundation writing, and i will never like this genre.

i think anyone who has even a passing interest in the scp foundation should read this, because of the scope of the events it's honestly much denser and difficult to read than i expected, but it feels nice to know that a book that originated from the foundation is a physical object that you can buy in bookstores. i read the 2021 scp foundation referencing self-published version of this. the newer rewrite to remove all the references to the project might be better but it was worth it to read this book in the context in which it was originally written.