Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish school bus rides, and other aspects of public school life that will keep you laughing in recognition and occasionally sighing...
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Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish school bus rides, and other aspects of public school life that will keep you laughing in recognition and occasionally sighing in relief that you aren’t him. Kick Me is a nostalgic trip for the inner geek in all of us.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780609809433 (0609809431)
Publish date: September 24th 2002
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Coming Of Age,
Biography Memoir
This memoir is really more of a series of grueling anecdotes from a tortured preadolescence & early adolescence. They are the sorts of stories that bring back all the worst parts of being a kid, stories that made my skin crawl. Some of them were almost funny, in a horrifying fashion. Feig's a pretty...
Anyone who's seen an episode of Freaks and Geeks should know what to expect from Paul Feig's memoir Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence. And maybe that's the problem.Feig is certainly good at self-deprecation, and equally as good at getting to the heart of all of the things that make being a teenage...