You're Not Much Use to Anyone

Name: You're Not Much Use to Anyone
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: David Shapiro
ISBN: 9781480585447

Author: David Shapiro

Narrator: David Shapiro

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/22/2014

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In A Sense of Direction author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

About David Shapiro

David Shapiro is the creator of the hit blog Pitchfork Reviews Reviews and the World’s First Perfect Zine. He has written for the New York Observer, the Wall Street Journal, and Interview, among others. He is currently a law student.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan

I like alt-lit and You're Not Much Use to Anyone is no exception. Alt-lit is generally characterized by its matter of fact style and also the inclusion of modern technology. It feels like Minimalism must have felt in the 60s. Stripped down to nothing but lines and the space between. It makes me feel......more

Goodreads review by Dirty Dayna

2 #poorrichwhitekid stars I received this ARC via netgalley and the publisher New Harvest for an Honest Review. This book is deemed semi-autobiographical which makes me think parts are either dramatized (maybe meeting Obama? ) or made up and I can’t really decipher which. While the book does approac......more

Goodreads review by Angelina

self centered emotionally stunted view of the world from a boy playing at adulthood. written like a 15 year old. still, an easy read that does say something, though nothing i particularly wanted to hear.......more

Quotes

“Read this if you’re a fan of Tao Lin’s lo-fi renderings of aimless city kids.” —Nylon, Best Books of the Summer“Punchy and…poignant.” —Vice“The Internet becomes a novel in You’re Not Much Use to Anyone…a memoirist novel… [where] well-curated, pointillist anecdotes make up the action.” —The Daily Dot