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Summary: Easy like Sunday Morning...
Review: So, initially the book was given to be by the publisher at a holiday party and I lost it. I felt obligated to replace it and read it. Life as a Loser appeals to the voyeur and the "unique individual" in all of us. In one sense it is like finding someone's journal and reading it- learning all about some of their inner workings. On the other hand, many of us twenty-somethings can identify with the trials and tribulations of Will. Though we may not all share the exact same story- the themes and the feelings are the same. The book won't save any lives or answer any questions- but it just may bring a bit of comfort letting you know that life can be really screwed up and that you aren't the only one in the world who can't understand why "all this is happening to you."
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Summary: For all of us Losers
Review: This book is excellent if you've been a reader of 'Life As A Loser' all along or if you haven't started reading Will Leitch yet. No matter who you are or where you're from, there's something in here that will strike a chord with the loser in all of us. Will recounts his troubles without bitterness and revels in being a writer without pretention. Only suckers and snobs would not like this book.
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Summary: A fantastic debut
Review: This book made me laugh out loud on the subway, and everyone stared at me. It would make a great movie starring Jon Cusack!!!
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Summary: Nothing but laughs
Review: This book makes you want to go visit Mattoon, home of much of these stories. The people there seem infinitely more pleasant than those in New York, and they're funnier too. Plus, any baseball fan will relate to just about everything in there. My only problem: There's some weird sexual stuff in there, without warning. You're reading about Little League baseball, and then bam you're in a Penthouse forum. that was scary. But a great read. Funny, funny stuff.
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Summary: makes my life look pretty good
Review: this is a great read. start to finish it flows very well. will's humorous vignetes get better as you continue. this book serves as a great reminder on how bad things can get and let's you appreciate the small things in life
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Summary: Truly wonderful
Review: This is, without question, the best novel about the fishing industry that I have ever read. Sure, it gets a little tedious and confusing at times, like the whole chapter featuring the robotic nuns (which I admit I didn't really understand), but overall it's really insightful and (yes) even touching. Also, an inspired choice to print the book on edible (strawberry-flavored), recycled paper. Of course, the real fun in reading Life As A Loser is trying to figure out which chapters Leitch wrote while pleasuring himself. Thumbs up!
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Summary: Solipsitic Twaddle
Review: We do not need another neurotic "memoir" from a young person about his pointless little life. Will Leitch's book is the penultimate navel-gazing example of what's wrong with New York writing today. There are some bits that would have been funny in a sitcom, but mostly this is thinly-disguised careeerism passing itself off as confessional. Basically worthless.
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Summary: Life is Wonderful as a Loser as this guy tells it
Review: When you think your life sucks, step back and read a page from the hilariously sad "Life as a Loser." You'll feel so much better and you'll keep reading this insightful, wry, down-to-earth book by Everyman Will Leitch. Perfect for thirtysomethings with no direction, twentysomethings waiting for things to get better, college students excited about the bright, shiny future and all of their parents who have no clue what the world is really like these days. Will Leitch tells the story for all of us. A great gift for yourself or the loser in your life.
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Summary: why are you doing this?
Review: Will has an amazing knack for describing details about people's personal lives in his columns, despite that few, if any of them, have given him permission to do so. This book is more of the same... a look into his life, at the peril of those who know him. "Life as a Loser" is more of a please-like-me-I-want-to-be-Dave-Eggers tome than it is a legitmate piece of literature. You'd be better off catching a local coffee-house poetry reading.
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Will Leitch -- the witty, self-deprecating, brilliant twentysomething who moved from the cornfields of Illinois to the bright lights of New York City -- has turned his popular online column into a hilarious full-length book, and he has turned in a major achievement. First, let's get the title out of the way: Leitch is not a loser in the sense you might think. From reading his book you know he's had succses with the ladies, you know he has scores of friends, you know he has worked at the New York Times. But Leitch calls himself a loser because of the inner workings of his mind. We learn of his neuroses, his loving but over-analyzed relationships with his family, and most of all the insecure way Leitch goes through life wondering if other people think he's a loser. But most of all, we laugh. In fact, when reading Leitch I usually laugh twice at each episode of his crazy life -- first with him, then at him. Leitch is part Andy Rooney, part Dave Barry, part Roger Ebert, part Dave Eggers, part Jane Austen. When he discusses his love of sports, you'll think he's a typical man's man, but when he discusses his obsession with his weight, you'll think he's a girlie-man. He'll never stop surprising you. Leitch's writing is a breezy read, but it's also touching when he tells us something he's passionate about. No bookshelf is complete without his work.
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