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How To Be A Person: The Stranger's Guide To College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, And Life Itself (2012)

by Lindy West(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1570617783 (ISBN13: 9781570617782)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Sasquatch Books

review 1: I wanted to like this book with every fiber of my being. I was ready to order it for our library. It sounded right up my alley ... and honest, funny, sassy, unfiltered (scandalous) guide to college and life for the 17+ crowd. It was Buzzfeed endorsed and one of the authors shares my name... what could be better?! This book. This book could be better. Some parts were great and helpful and direct and funny. However, all that was overshadowed by Dan Savage's unnecessary hypocrisy and religion bashing. I knew going into this that he is not everyone's cup of tea but I dont generally mind him... however he lost me here. I am not a sensitive person by any means and I was offended by some of the things he wrote with regard to Catholics and homosexuals. Ultimately he was behaving e... morexactly as the reader he was berating in one of the featured exchanges. I know being gay is not easy, and a lot of people (catholic and otherwise) only add to the difficulties ... but to outright Catholic bash makes you no better of a person... especially when so many people (catholic or otherwise) are LGBT supporters. I never feel it is beneficial to fight hate with hate (because all you do is alienate people who are already on your side) and that is exactly what Dan Savage does in this book and unfortunately this is what stuck with me... rather than any of the advice that could be considered helpful. Its a shame because without a handful of unnecessary inflammatory exchanges this book could have been great. It seemed kind of childish and I'm not sure what the authors were intending to achieve by including them.
review 2: Witty writing, as I would expect, but this is definitely geared towards the college audience. I honestly think portions of this should be required reading for new college admits, while other parts are a little too heavy on the snark that I think it would go over many new college kids' heads. The best portion of the book is obviously Dan Savage's responses to a number of letters asking for advice for certain scenarios, but the rest is also decently entertaining. less

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