How to Ruin Everything: Essays
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A New York Times Bestseller "Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition."
--Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right? In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy), yet all are delivered with the type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky devoted fans across the globe. Alternately ribald and emotionally resonant, How to Ruin Everything announces a versatile writer with a promising career ahead.
--Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right? In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy), yet all are delivered with the type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky devoted fans across the globe. Alternately ribald and emotionally resonant, How to Ruin Everything announces a versatile writer with a promising career ahead.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0147515998
ISBN13:9780147515995
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:Plume Books
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Uproariously funny & thought-provoking memoir
Published by Faith , 5 years ago
I've been a fan of Watsky's rap music since I was 16, but this book shows his roots as being first and foremost an excellent writer. Whether he's describing the time his mother tearfully accused his delinquent elementary-schooler self of growing up to "steal houses", or the time he, a vegetarian, smuggled ivory across the Canadian border for someone's hundredth birthday, every sentence is a glorious combination of good humor and true ennui. Like his music, his stories are focused - everything mentioned is relevant later, and what seems like digression always has a point that you don't even see until the second listen/reread. You will laugh. You may not cry, but the dark and sad parts of you will feel understood. You will certainly come out of the other end of reading this a different and better person, more equipped to understand mortality, boredom, self-destruction, embarrassment, and joy.
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