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Geburtstag
1979-07-17
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male
Ausbildung
Boston College (2001)
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blogger

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There were some extremely funny parts of this book that gave me great hope of ending the year on a humorous memoir. It fell flat somewhere around the middle and never really picked up again. I didn't like his excessive footnotes (which is mainly because they are fairly tedious to view on the Kindle) and skipped the last half of them during the book. I also didn't like how much he made light of driving drunk, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Overall, he seems like a pretty funny guy who should have just stuck to Blog Land. I've never seen his blog but I have a feeling his writing fits a little better in a shorter, more freelance environment.… (mehr)
 
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tealightful | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 24, 2013 |
Brief Description: A memoir of the author’s life growing up in South Philadelphia, though it seemed to be just as much about his dad’s exploits.

My Thoughts: The main reason I was attracted to this memoir was because of the Philadelphia setting, which is located just 30 minutes from my current home and where I grew up. (Although I’m not a South Philly girl by any stretch of the imagination.) Apart from a bit of an insight into being in the Mummers (a South Philly tradition), this memoir just didn’t do much for me. The author recalls various exploits of him and his father (much involved drinking too much and doing stupid things), and this just didn’t interest me all that much. In addition, I thought the author often tried too hard to be funny and it fell flat. Unless you’re interested in the area or the idea of drunken boyish exploits interest you, I’d take a pass.… (mehr)
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Jenners26 | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 16, 2012 |
Funny, but it could have been longer and more detailed. A very quick read.
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bribre01 | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 4, 2010 |
I don’t know what was funniest story was in this book, it may have been the fact that he was taught to refer to his penis as his “bird,” or when he wrote a paragraph about his pack of wild friends with goofy names such as Jimmy the Muppet and asked the readers to envision Ray Liotta narrating the paragraph in the style of Henry Hill from Goodfellas, or if it was Jason’s wild over-use of hysterical footnotes. I’m leaning toward the footnotes. My favorite can be found on page 154, and the footnote is nearly half the page and runs on to take up a quarter of the next page as well. Basically, it is a delightful story-within-a-story about his favorite childhood game of all time called remote controlling. Everyone in his Philly neighborhood paid off the cable guys to get all the premium channels, including porn, and he and his friends would walk the streets with their remote controls and point them into open living rooms and changed their neighbors tv’s to the porn channels. Jason and crew would then witness the mayhem and hysteria of the families who saw sudden pornography on their television screens. I still can not stop laughing about this story.

I can’t beg you enough to buy this book. It is a must-read for every person who grew up loving the fun in their dysfunctional childhoods. Everything Is Wrong With Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong is a frank, brutally honest and shockingly hysterical memoir of booze, porn, masturbation, and the stupid acts of boys and men. Who doesn’t want to have a good laugh and a trip down memory lane? Even if you weren’t raised dysfunctional in the traditional sense, buy the book and take a walk down the wild side and see how hard life was for someone else, and perk yourself up knowing at least you didn’t have to survive that childhood. So what if your mom or dad was a little too controlling? His dad let him play with a loaded elephant gun (on accident, but still!) all afternoon with his little brother.

To read my full review, visit my blog here:

http://thegirlfromtheghetto.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/everything-is-wrong-with-me...
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nerdgirlblogger | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 10, 2010 |

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