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Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Alida Nugent
3.32 AVERAGE
100 reviews for:
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Alida Nugent
3.32 AVERAGE
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Well, this sure was a book. I feel like it was another one of those books where I say, "Yay! Congrats on publishing a book!" But the reality is that it wasn't really saying anything new. Not every book has to say something new, but at least Alida's writing was fun, if a little dated. You can definitely tell when this book was written which makes it a fun time capsule for those of us who were on the internet when she was writing the book (as I can recognize a lot of her references). But I don't think this is quite fun or revolutionary enough for me to share enthusiastically.
I started reading this book this morning while waiting for my car to be towed and sitting in my apartment hoping that that lipstick I ordered would at least be delivered today but it wasn't so self-medication with take-out seemed like the next best bet.
That's a long winded way of saying that I identify with the author 100% - we even graduated the same year.
The first half of the book was a blast and probably really comes back to all that nostalgia the second half hits on which is maybe why the second half got a tired for me. With the wedding and the graduation speech, you start to realize this isn't for her peers but for the kids about to get thrown out in the real world and I'm already too cynical for that - and too cynical for another love letter to New York.
I do like this book - I finished it in a day - most of it was fun but I think it hit some of the pitfalls that other bloggers to book authors hit in just not having the content to carry through.
That's a long winded way of saying that I identify with the author 100% - we even graduated the same year.
The first half of the book was a blast and probably really comes back to all that nostalgia the second half hits on which is maybe why the second half got a tired for me. With the wedding and the graduation speech, you start to realize this isn't for her peers but for the kids about to get thrown out in the real world and I'm already too cynical for that - and too cynical for another love letter to New York.
I do like this book - I finished it in a day - most of it was fun but I think it hit some of the pitfalls that other bloggers to book authors hit in just not having the content to carry through.
lighthearted
slow-paced
Alida è stata una grande scoperta (nonché il mio secondo libro in inglese di fila). Parte un po' a rilento, ma nel corso dei capitoli,che sono divisi alla perfezione, si fa sempre più intelligente, seria ma allo stesso tempo un po' cazzona. Il discorso ai laureati è il capitolo migliore dell'intero libro, dove comunque in generale ho segnato circa 450 frasi per le quali ho detto "ma questo l'ho pensato anche io! ma allora non sono sola!" quindi grazie Alida.
This was a great book about being a twentysomething. While it was good, I would take it as a good story and not as a good advice book. The point of the whole thing, I think was to give her insight and not say that her way is the way everything should be done. All in all, great book that made sense to this twentysomething.
I honestly got bored of how whiny this book was!! At more than a third of the way through I hoped to see a little bit of growth and it just wasn’t there. Your 20s suck and that’s allowed to be that, it doesn’t mean we need another book about it.
Pretty funny. I bought this after college and probably would've appreciated it more then. But not as relatable now that I'm a so called "adult." Short so overall quick read.
Funny, quirky but honest essays about the struggles young people face as they exit college and into the real world. There were some relatable and LOL moments in the book. This book would make a great graduation gift.
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The most important thing for a book of humorous essays, in my opinion, is that it matches your humor as the reader. You could have every other person say "Oh! But have you read David Sedaris/Chelsea Handler/Nora Ephron? They're my FAVORITE!" and you buy a copy, read a couple stories, and just not get it. I mean, technically, the same is true for fiction, but humorous essays need to be specifically relate-able. You have to see something in the subject matter that you at least somehow relate to. And the humor has to be right. If you're not into crude, drunken debauchery, don't read books like I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (Tucker Max). If you don't get or don't use super sarcastic anecdotes, and you aren't around people who talk like that, then you might not appreciate this book and others like it.
Nugent's humor sat right with me. She talks like my friends and I talk when we're around each other, she portrays the very real fears and insecurities that we feel with a heaping spoonful of sarcasm (which is just how we like it served). I cannot claim to be a humorous essay connoisseur, but I have read a few that I've loved, and a few that I didn't get. The good ones made me laugh out loud. Often, in public. And I won't get embarrassed. Don't Worry, It Gets Worse had me giggling at work, in the passenger seats of cars, and had me reading aloud passages to friends and family.
I would have liked the book itself to be longer, maybe include a couple more stories, expand beyond some tropes that Nugent relies on a little too often (jobs, wine, and friendship...although on second thought all of those topics are pretty rife for storytelling). But overall I thought this collection was funny and relate-able, which is exactly what you'd want it to be.
The most important thing for a book of humorous essays, in my opinion, is that it matches your humor as the reader. You could have every other person say "Oh! But have you read David Sedaris/Chelsea Handler/Nora Ephron? They're my FAVORITE!" and you buy a copy, read a couple stories, and just not get it. I mean, technically, the same is true for fiction, but humorous essays need to be specifically relate-able. You have to see something in the subject matter that you at least somehow relate to. And the humor has to be right. If you're not into crude, drunken debauchery, don't read books like I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (Tucker Max). If you don't get or don't use super sarcastic anecdotes, and you aren't around people who talk like that, then you might not appreciate this book and others like it.
Nugent's humor sat right with me. She talks like my friends and I talk when we're around each other, she portrays the very real fears and insecurities that we feel with a heaping spoonful of sarcasm (which is just how we like it served). I cannot claim to be a humorous essay connoisseur, but I have read a few that I've loved, and a few that I didn't get. The good ones made me laugh out loud. Often, in public. And I won't get embarrassed. Don't Worry, It Gets Worse had me giggling at work, in the passenger seats of cars, and had me reading aloud passages to friends and family.
I would have liked the book itself to be longer, maybe include a couple more stories, expand beyond some tropes that Nugent relies on a little too often (jobs, wine, and friendship...although on second thought all of those topics are pretty rife for storytelling). But overall I thought this collection was funny and relate-able, which is exactly what you'd want it to be.