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    You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
    You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
    You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
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    You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel

    Written by David Shapiro

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 22, 2014
    ISBN9781480585447
    You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
    Author

    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, Interview, and other places. He is currently working as a corporate lawyer specializing in private-equity transactions.

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    • 2/5
      I got to the end of this, all along wondering why... I’m not sure how I got this book in my list, probably some algorithm, but for sure I never felt it was a must read, a masterpiece or something that lines up with my usual readings. So why? Here and there the story picks up a bit but other than that the main character is this boring, paranoid, pimple faced teenager, wanna be Woody Allen when Woody Allen talks about himself. Toward the end, in spite of his successes his true character comes to light, a narcissistic, confused teenager forever kid, unable to love a woman or a girl of any type. Rebuttable. All he thinks about is himself and there’s no way you want to be on his team in spite of whatever success he may have gained. His loneliness has to do with him being so out of touch with himself as with others.
    • 2/5
      An extra cringe window into American young professional culture in 2023. Hopefully this was meant to be cringeworthy. I had a good laugh at the characters.
    • 5/5
      (Received from NetGalley) This novel is about David Shapiro, a recent NYU grad whose parents want him to go to law school. Meanwhile, he has a mind-numbing city job and starts a Tumblr blog called Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, sneaking to write entries under the desk and in the bathroom. The author is David Shapiro (not his real name), a recent NYU grad who had a Tumblr blog about Pitchfork... you get the idea. In interviews, he says the story is not completely true, but certainly semi-autobiographical, and he eventually did become a lawyer. Fictional David leads a downtown kind of life, with changing girlfriends, apartments, roommates. As an upper West Side, middle-aged nerd who didn't know what Pitchfork was until I looked it up, I don't quite relate, but the book was still fascinating.