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Interesting book. A collection of roommate stories both good and bad. An interesting relationship for many.
Highly entertaining book.
I could not put down this book! It is filled with such interesting people, and some quite tragic and horrific situations; however, I loved how there were also positive stories to balance the extremes. All in all, a fun and relaxing read--an absolute recommend to roommate virgins and college freshmen.
I received this from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.Stephanie Wu writes, “…living with a roommate is an incredibly universal ritual.” She should know; she's had over twenty roommates in her life and many have become her closest friends. While many of the writers who shared their stories in this book became close with their roommates, there are also stories of thievery, bullying, and outright insanity. The stories compiled in this book are narrated by the roommates themselves, and th...
A funny and occasionally heartwarming collection of stories about roommates. Like I'll point out in my Muckraker review, it's a better gift for someone dealing with an awful roommate than something to pick up for yourself, but a fun read nonetheless. (I received an e-copy in exchange for my honest review in the Morningside Muckraker through NetGalley.)
Having lived with quite a few roommates throughout my 20s, I picked up this book expecting it to be full of the "nightmare" roommates most of us hope we experience only through our friends' cotenants.The book is rather a random collection of stories, organized only by the story writer's apparent age, mostly centered around the college experience. The lack of better organization made it difficult to determine where the story was going to go. Often times, the stories seem to only be a simple descr...
Apart from being interested in this subject through years and YEARS of roommate living, I was interviewed for this book! So that makes me want to check it out a little bit. (It's a happy story, not a nightmare story, so I feel free to share.)
WritingI don't have much to say about the writing in this one, because I feel like this is almost exclusively about the stories. I've mentioned recently how much I'm enjoying storytelling podcasts, and I think this book really mirrors that format. These aren't stories from professional writers, they're just stories told by regular people. It was like listening to an episode of Risk or This American Life devoted to roommate stories. So, while I was pleased with the content, I wasn't just blown aw...
Although this book is peppered with some tales of roommates from hell, all too often the allegedly angelic narrators come across as whiny, self-entitled, and immature brats who see their nightly drinking binge as a constitutional right. (Haven't they ever heard of studying?) Frankly, I think most of them got exactly what they deserved. As a matter of fact, this doesn't make that bad of a hate read.
This was a fun read. I look forward to reading the other books in the series. There's only three. I hope there will be more.
Let me go ahead and say that I received this book free as a Good Reads First Read.Have you ever read a book that you disliked so much that you wanted badly to finish it, but with every page you read it felt like you were paper cutting your soul? Like Harry Potter and the evil quill of Umbridge's... the one that you had to keep writing with even though it sliced you open... That's what reading this book was like in the last 100 pages for me. The book itself was not bad, but it lacked several thin...
A not so good book. I mostly enjoyed reading about the College/High School part and wasn't interested in the rest that much. Also the stories were at times good, but at times I was just bored out of my mind and skipped the story.There are apparently some famous(?) people who also had roommate experiences, however I didn't know any of them. :)The roommate experiences were at times very horrific and at times also unbelievable. There are also fun stories of good roommate experiences, but a lot was
I won this book through a good reads contest and while this is not a typical genre that I would read I enjoyed it. I must admit that I had assumed the book would have more humor in it, based in part on the cover which is awesome. Many of the stories are actually quite sad dealing with such issues as addiction and mental health. A few were really inspiring. I give this book a three because the writing of each story seems pretty much the same, the uniqueness of the person telling their experience
This collection of stories would be more accurately titled as "Stories of Living with Passive-Aggressive Nightmares", because pretty much the entire collection is full of tales about living with some of the most unpleasant, narcissistic, hedonistic, and sometimes bordering on ridiculous roommates. Some stories were simply amusing, such as the roommate who proceeded to urinate on their electronics when they drank and denied it the next day, to disturbing--including the roommate who kept dead anim...
Such a colossal disappointment. A compilation of short essays describing people's roommate's experiences. A lot of these people are just embarrassing (the storytellers not the roommates) and none of the essays were particularly well-written. Felt lazy, as if someone interviewed a bunch of people and just transcribed what they said verbatim, cleaning up the grammar, and it was published. Would have preferred it had the person compiling it (Stephanie Wu?) actually took the time to really make stro...
