The Turner Diaries/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Artistic License Law: The Cohen Act that bans all private ownership of guns would never pass in any US legal body with half a skull for starters.
  • Artistic License Military: Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the US Army would allow military discipline to sink below Vietnam War levels at their worst and be utterly incompetent at stopping a right wing terrorist group from getting their hands on nuclear launch control codes and working nukes.
  • Audience-Alienating Premise
  • Bile Fascination: This book's notoriety has drawn the attention of people unaffiliated with its insane political viewpoints
  • Designated Hero/Designated Villain
  • Esoteric Happy Ending: All Jews and Non-Whites have been annihilated... in a lengthy campaign involving nuclear and chemical warfare, which has reduced Earth to a tenth its population and will most likely yield a severe fallout.
  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Barring every attempt to make this book a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, the climax of the book involves the protagonist flying a plane into the Pentagon.
  • Idiot Plot: The plot kicks off with the US population, including the Supreme Court, accepting the outlawing of privately-owned guns, second amendment be damned. In fact, lets cut to the chase and say that everyone who isn't heroic is a moron nigh-on by default.
  • Mary Suetopia: What the author seems to think an all-white world would be.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The Day of the Rope...
  • Protagonist-Centered Morality: The Organization uses many of the same tactics as their enemies. Of course, it's justified when they do it, but when their foes use those techniques, it shows how evil and depraved they are
  • Straw Man Has a Point: At one point, the attorney general of the United States government comes on television to describe the heroes as "depraved, racist criminals".
  • Values Dissonance: Partially because of the extreme political values, the book is incredibly divisive.
  • You Fail Religious Studies Forever: Judaism is grossly misrepresented.