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Chargement... The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachieverpar David Yoo
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Don't let the innocent-looking boy on the cover of David Yoo's The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever fool you into thinking this hilarious memoir of coming of age Asian in a sea of white faces is for the same audiences as his YA novels, Girls for Breakfast and Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, or his middle-grade novel, The Detention Club. The cringe-worthy comedy of The Choke Artist gets pretty graphic with its escalating, self-deprecating true confessions, ranging from high school through his post-college years. It is definitely adult reading! Perhaps perfect for the "New Adult" audience, but its themes of identity and belonging will resonate with adults of all ages. Longer review at Bay State Reader's Advisory blog. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In this hilarious collection of essays, David Yoo exposes the pain--and the absurdities--of coming of age when you're awkward, insecure, and unable to stop shooting yourself in the foot. In often cringe-inducing episodes, David Yoo perfectly captures the cycle of failure and fear from childhood through adulthood with brutal honesty Whether he's wearing four layers of clothing to artificially beef up his slim frame, routinely testing highlighters against his forearm to see if he indeed has yellow skin, or preemptively sabotaging promising relationships to avoid being compared to former boyfriends, Yoo celebrates and skewers the insecurities of anxious people everywhere. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Anyway, there are many laugh out loud and cringe-worthy moments and even a couple really sad moments. Toward the end it started getting pretty depressing as the author/protagonist got older and older and his life wasn't going anywhere. The ending was fairly uplifting though so that helped. ( )