Books : How to Lose Friends and Alienate People [movie tie-in]: A Memoir
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.41092
EAN: 9780306816130
ISBN: 030681613X
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Sales Rank: 153675
Studio: Da Capo Press
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The movie tie-in edition of Toby Young's bestselling memoir of self-sabotage at Vanity Fair.
With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), there has never been a better time to savor this laugh-out-loud memoir from everyone's favorite "professional failurist." In his dishy assault on New York's A-list, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young lands a job at Vanity Fair--and proceeds to work his way down Manhattan's food chain.
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But it's pretty bad.
Toby Young comes to America for a job at Vanity Fair and succeeds in American Cafe Society about as well as the Duchess of Windsor did with the Royals after her husband's abdication. Imagine the Conde Nast headquarters as a combination of high fashion and low life and make the author the lowest of th e low lifes and you have a pretty good clue where this memoir goes.
There is a movie deal, but my bet is that it will be greatly fictionalized because failure just isn't that funny.
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Young steers clear of discussing the occasional exquisite political journalism for which Vanity Fair is known--e.g. articles about the Nixon Watergate affair, exposes that led to the prosecution of Big Tobacco, and today several columns documenting the unmitigated disaster of the Bush Years--and gets right to the sex and the city, New York version. (Indeed, Young comes along at just the time that Candace Bushnell is writing her column in The New York Observer that would become the famous HBO series... and now, the movie (which I review here). They're friends.)
He's sort of a testosterone-and-alcohol-afflicted male version of Carrie Bradshaw, and more doggedly politically incorrect.
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Brian Wright
Copyright 2008
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Hands down, this is the funniest memoir I have ever read. Young's ability to make fun of everything around him and himself at once makes an otherwise trite set of instances over the top hilarious. I will be going to this movie, as I have no doubt it will be every bit as funny as the book. The ordering a stripper, Vanity Fair Oscar Party and interacting with Graydon scenes alone could carry a whole movie.
If you don't take yourself seriously and can abide a very funny fool, you'll love this.
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This is one of those few books that you really want to root for, that the hero/author somehow learns from their errors and does a 180. This is not that book. I wish I could get back the time I spent reading this book. I will probably end up using it to light some winter fires. It is not even worth donating or passing it along.
Toby Young (at least in this book) loves the sound of his own voice (even it is just whining or using his parents' credentials to give him meaning) and never truly admits just how self-indulgent, arrogant, and downright oblivious he is.
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I thought that this was a very entertaining book. Toby is not always a very likable person in this story but he is brutally honest about himself and that is part of what makes the book so entertaining. At times I did find it droned on too much about facts on who is who in the fashion industry which didn't interest me so much but it was still a fun read.
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