EPISODE · Jul 22, 2014 · 6H
David Shapiro presents You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel Author: David Shapiro Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 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.”
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel Author: David Shapiro Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 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.”
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