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That Book About Harvard: Surviving The World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment At A Time (2012)

by Eric Kester(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1402267509 (ISBN13: 9781402267505)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

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review 1: I struggled through the first half. The tone of the book was so frat-boy trying to be jocular, and there were sexist stuff like slapping a woman on the ass that I only hope he was joking about or immature attitudes towards other ethnicities like his giggling over his calculus teacher's accent. It got better after the middle when he started talking about his anxieties, but even these skimmed the surface. He visited a counsellor, rolled his eyes at the experience and said he was better after that only so he didn't have to go back. Okkkay. And in the grand tradition of all popular literature today, he met a girl. I shouldn't complain, I got something out of it for an article I'm working on, but really, this could have been so much more if he'd probed his angst a bit instead o... moref trying to make it into one big joke.
review 2: That Book about Harvard follows a college freshman as he goes through many embarrassing and character-shaping experiences. Eric Kester writes a memoir involving self-deprecating humor and admirable honesty. There was not a boring moment in this book, and on a few occasions it even made me laugh out loud. I thoroughly enjoyed this largely real story, and have acquired interesting, if not slightly frightening, insight on the average daily life of a student at university. less

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