A review by amalauna
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean M. Twenge

1.0

Okay, so at the beginning of the book I could easily pick up her bias, sarcasm, and some snarky undertones in this book. I kept reading because people I know have read and liked this book. I finally stopped reading.

I am not a millennial but I work with them every day in higher ed. I know how obnoxious they can be, but man! Twenge is on a high horse and some of the snark is unnecessary. (There's a line in Chapter 3 that basically states that life is going to suck forever for you if you grow up in the ghetto. Which may or may not be true, but it is an unnecessarily snarky aside.)

I gave up reading this because a privileged white girl writing about the underprivileged in a cavalier way is almost as disgusting as sitting in on a KKK rally. (Not that I believe that Twenge is being racist necessarily, but I do believe her attitude shows her privilege.) Instead of being an unbiased accounting of Gen Me attitudes... it is a attitude driven rant about how Gen me was raised and how she couldn't be a part of it.

If I could rate this with no stars... I would!