How to Ruin Everything: Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015X7GRMY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.. 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 <
"The best i've ever read" according to Amazon Customer. Amazing compilation of essays written about George Watskys experiences and how he got to be where he is today as a well known rap and spoken word artist. Watskys sentences possess a structure that stands in a class of it's own. The book clearly shows how much potential he has and where he could delve into after his rap career finishes.Good: The book delivers harshly true lines with no sugar coating really proclaiming to us his past encounters with life. He keep. Watsky!!!!!! Need I say more Indy2Oregon I'm a huge fan of George Watsky!!!!!! Carboard Castles and xInfinity are excellent CDs (and he has amazing videos he produces for and pays for himself) so I was excited to learn he had a book. Just like his songs, these short stories are somewhat self deprecating and teasing about the stereotypical skinny white Jewish rapper (who spouts off so fast you can't hardly keep up!!!!). Helped me remember how much fun it is to read If you've seen Watsky before, this is the book you've been waiting for. If you haven't seen Watsky, his hilarious quips and brutally honest personality will have you laughing and wanting more.The only gripe with the book I have is that the chapters don't seem to follow any order meaning from chapter to chapter you can find yourself lost. The chapters have no basis between each other so if you stop in the middle of a chapter it is difficult to continue where you
. George Watsky is a writer and musician from San Francisco, California. After getting his start as a teenager in competitive poetry slam, winning both the Youth Speaks Slam and Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam at the Apollo Theater, he has since branched out into hip hop and long-form writing. Watsky has performed on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, the Ellen Show, the NAACP Image Awards, and his online videos have receiv
You can examine every drop of Watsky's kindness, thoughtfulness, self-awareness, curiosity, and adventurousness, seeing how he is continually and/or continuously growing as an artist and a human, and you will too." —Myq Kaplan, comic featured on Conan, Last Comic Standing, and The Late Show with David Letterman"How to Ruin Everything is laugh-out-loud funny, painfully honest, and subversively sincere. Thankfully though, in this collection of his writings, you can do just that, because that's how reading works. How to Ruin Everything shows off his versatility as a writer and proves that the nerdy guys can also be part of the cool crowd.” —Russell Simmons “George Watsky is a lyrical mastermind. Which you might have to, in order to process the fact that a guy who looks like he's twelve just wrote the best debut essay collection of the year." &m