Morrissey, the front man for iconic English rock band The Smiths, released his first novel, a 128-page story titled "List of the Lost," Yahoo News reported, but critics in the U.S. and across the pond are slamming Moz and saying the artist should stick to writing music instead of books.
Morrissey revealed a questionable view on sex in the way he associated it with death in his novel, and the dialogue he wrote for his characters falls flat, according to the Guardian. Even technical errors run rampant in the text.
"It's not just the typos and grammatical errors - of which there are plenty - but the endless digressions, the inability to come to any sort of a point," the Guardian reported.
The crooner described the book in his own words in a statement released to his unofficial fan site, True To You, and explained his vision for the book.
"The theme is demonology ... the left-handed path of black magic," Morrissey said in a statement.
His story follows a Boston sports team in the 1970s that finds itself at the mercy of an entity after they accidentally kill a tramp. One by one, members of the team are killed off and the entity appears as an omen before each death.
As intriguing the plot seems, the examples of cringe-worthy prose in the text were enough to warrant a list of the 10 "most embarrassing quotes" from the book, as reported by the Telegraph. One quote featured an attempt at two bad puns with the line, "Whoever put the pain in painting had also put the fun in funeral."
