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    How to Ruin Everything: Essays

    Written by George Watsky

    Narrated by George Watsky

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 14, 2016
    ISBN9780735286344
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    • 5/5
      I could pretty much listen to Watsky say anything and I’d enjoy it. His stories are crazy and hilarious. There was only one chapter I didn’t like the layout of (the airplane/fishing chapter) but other than that it was was easy to listen to and packed full of interesting information and funny anecdotes.
    • 3/5
      Funny guy and it was a good listen. But I guess that one whole book full of rants is just a bit much. Maybe I would have liked it better when I was younger. Maybe it would be 5 stars if I was in my teens.

      Maybe I'm just old and it in fact does deserve 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      Awesome and being read by Watsky, you hear it as he intended. Almost sounds like poetry in parts and let me tell you, George Watsky can be poetic even about grotesque vomit.
    • 5/5
      such an interesting listen, cant go wrong with this one
    • 4/5
      Is 29 too young for memoirs?George Watsky is classic. He’s a white middle class Californian. He went to school. He rented places with friends. Some roommates were oddballs. He lusted. He likes recreational drugs. He likes pop music. His parents are very supportive. And so are his friends’ parents. They even lend him money. He reads poetry. He has a band. He’s traveled some. He is 29. This is his autobiography. The most interesting chapter concerns his dealing with epilepsy. It is a very inconvenient partner, causing him to pass out unexpectedly. Sometimes with fits. He keeps waking up to people asking him what year this is. It has cost him his driver’s license – a lifechanger for any American.Watsky writes well. He has a structure he likes to employ: there is a confusing opening event, and as you read on, he backfills with the story behind it until you can click the two parts together. He embellishes the potentially ordinary facts with vivid descriptions and pop culture allusions. I couldn’t help wondering where this was all leading or why it was in any way more important than anyone else’s life, angst, dumb moves and fond memories. How all this formed his focus and life’s work. I guess if you’re a George Watsky fan, every little scrap of data is a treasure.David Wineberg