crabbygirl reviewed We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby
Review of 'We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
categorized as 'biography', this is a collection of millennial blog posts that fit the personal essay - essays that involve an unusual amount of pooping until you find out that Irby has Crohn's disease. So maybe that encapsulates the trouble I have with a book that is supposed to the biographical, but is so disjointed that her quirks arrive ages before the explanations. For example, her concern that people are going to call her the N word (4 times) far outweighs the number of times she IS called the N word (once). Her excellent chapter "You Don't Have to be Grateful for Sex" contains the duality of being young enough to still be sucking her thumb, and savvy enough to be a champion masturbator. Ultimately, I might be too old to get any value out of this endeavor. And, as a member of GenX who understands the hyperbole that Millennials …
categorized as 'biography', this is a collection of millennial blog posts that fit the personal essay - essays that involve an unusual amount of pooping until you find out that Irby has Crohn's disease. So maybe that encapsulates the trouble I have with a book that is supposed to the biographical, but is so disjointed that her quirks arrive ages before the explanations. For example, her concern that people are going to call her the N word (4 times) far outweighs the number of times she IS called the N word (once). Her excellent chapter "You Don't Have to be Grateful for Sex" contains the duality of being young enough to still be sucking her thumb, and savvy enough to be a champion masturbator. Ultimately, I might be too old to get any value out of this endeavor. And, as a member of GenX who understands the hyperbole that Millennials bring to the table (quote: Dude, every day I dream of chewing my wrists open and emptying them until I'm dead) I do wonder how GenZ is going to top it.