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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
I mean I knew I would enjoy it but I loved it. Thank god scarlet bought it in a fugue state. I'll be remortgaging my house to get the others now
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
I don’t even know if this is the right rating. I’m still digesting. There were so many layers to this book that confused me. For someone who is obsessed with the academic achievements she has (although one she cannot actually claim because she photoshopped her app to get accepted), there are bizarre grammatical errors that suggest she didn’t even proof read this? I mean kudos to her a book is a book and she sure created one. The ode to her future books were bizarre. The pandering to Lena Dunham was sad. The obsession with dissecting a broken friendship (but mainly just talking ill of the former friend) was pathetic. I’m better for reading it but I’m still figuring out in what way.
Caroline is a paradox, and I think she always will be - both supremely unlikeable, but undeniably talented. Some of her descriptions are over-inflated (like a grade-schooler who just found out about the thesaurus!) but many of her observations in this book are astute and pack an emotional punch. It's impossible to detangle her writing from her persona - especially when her book is a story about the ups and downs of her own obsession with public perception.
She oscillates in and out of self awareness in a way that confuses me, but entertains me. She can be incredibly self aware, almost self effacing? but then in the same breath she ardently *defends* her dissenters to the reader, assuming that we cannot think for ourselves and have been on her side this whole time?? (Defending her agent, defending Natalie, defending journalists that have accused her of being a scammer, as if we weren't cognitively able to see their side in the first place, when it is TERRIBLY easy to see why people hate her.)
She seems to embody the attitude of "even if you're hating me, you're still talking about me" - but then desperately defends herself as if her life depends on it. She self aggrandizes and then self deprecates. She is both incredibly shallow (bragging about celebrities that text her, who she once sat at a conference table with) but in turn, she is able to plunge into depths that are so perceptive (hypothesizing about why her dad made a clean bed to die in.)
The thing I like most about "Scammer" is her embracing of both light & darkness. She is able to really clasp on to the agony of suffering, but romanticizes the height of her celestial moments.
I want to just say "love her writing, but would not like her IRL" but that's the thing with Caroline - you can't just pick one. Her entire world spins on the attention she gets - it seems to be her entire reason for existing. This attention is both entirely deserved and the reason she will always be a villain.
She oscillates in and out of self awareness in a way that confuses me, but entertains me. She can be incredibly self aware, almost self effacing? but then in the same breath she ardently *defends* her dissenters to the reader, assuming that we cannot think for ourselves and have been on her side this whole time?? (Defending her agent, defending Natalie, defending journalists that have accused her of being a scammer, as if we weren't cognitively able to see their side in the first place, when it is TERRIBLY easy to see why people hate her.)
She seems to embody the attitude of "even if you're hating me, you're still talking about me" - but then desperately defends herself as if her life depends on it. She self aggrandizes and then self deprecates. She is both incredibly shallow (bragging about celebrities that text her, who she once sat at a conference table with) but in turn, she is able to plunge into depths that are so perceptive (hypothesizing about why her dad made a clean bed to die in.)
The thing I like most about "Scammer" is her embracing of both light & darkness. She is able to really clasp on to the agony of suffering, but romanticizes the height of her celestial moments.
I want to just say "love her writing, but would not like her IRL" but that's the thing with Caroline - you can't just pick one. Her entire world spins on the attention she gets - it seems to be her entire reason for existing. This attention is both entirely deserved and the reason she will always be a villain.
The saga of Caroline Calloway's scandals and scams is one of my favorite Internet rabbit holes. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed her book. She has a unique and unapologetic writing voice, although the book felt very uneven in quality and had multiple typos. Whether you love or hate her, I do think this is worth reading to give more insight, color, controversy, and gasps to CC's saga. And I must confess that I adored the stickers and hand-glued book lining that accompanied this self-published piece.
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
This was the unabomber diary if the unabomber were a millennial white woman
fast-paced
3.5 would be a more accurate rating, but this book is not for Everyone (as is evident by some of the reviews on here). above all else this is a book of vulnerability bordering on uncomfortability. while i wouldn’t have done some of the things calloway has done and admitted to, her choice to be honest about them is admirable—artistically. maybe this is just because i just finished “sex and rage” so it’s top of mind, but in some ways, her story follows a similar trajectory. other than that i would have loved to edit this bc no offense, it needed some extra help, call me pedantic but her inconsistency with italicizing certain media really ground my gears.