Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield

A continuation of the teen-angst literary collection, Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic focuses on the embarrassing elements of adolescent love, in a volume that features letters, lyrics, and journal entries celebrating the shame of everything from unrequited crushes to celebrity worship.

Zusatztext "In a world where people are obsessed with Google and MySpace! you'd think a book exposing the private love letters and diary entries of strangers would be anticlimactic! but David Nadelberg has compiled the best and! well! most mortifying into a riveting book." -- Jane Informationen zum Autor Mortified is the creation of David Nadelberg--a writer/producer/angstologist living in Los Angeles, the official town of public humiliation. Since 2002, he has sifted through hundreds of journals belonging to strangers and edited them into comedic pieces. He has written and produced numerous TV pilots for places UPN, VH1 and Comedy Central that were so amazing, they never even aired. Klappentext Picking up where "Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic." leaves off, this collection uncovers priceless artifacts of teen angst that tell of unrequited crushes, awkward hookups, odd celebrity infatuations, and all manner of romantic catastrophes. Illustrated. Zusammenfassung Relive the angst. From starter girlfriends to escapist fantasies to delusional attempts to stand out amongst their peers! Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield revisits the boundlessly embarrassing topic of childhood love! uncovering priceless artifacts of authentic teen angst that tell of unrequited crushes! awkward hookups! odd celebrity infatuations! and all manner of romantic catastrophes. The now older (and allegedly wiser) authors of these letters! lyrics! and journals bravely share their shame in stories that range from sweetly hopeful to borderline psychotic. Everyone who ever obsessed over whether that guy or girl in algebra class liked them! or! y'know! liked them liked them! will relish this funny and touching valentine to our collective past

"In a world where people are obsessed with Google and MySpace, you'd think a book exposing the private love letters and diary entries of strangers would be anticlimactic, but David Nadelberg has compiled the best and, well, most mortifying into a riveting book." -- Jane

Autorentext

Mortified is the creation of David Nadelberg--a writer/producer/angstologist living in Los Angeles, the official town of public humiliation. Since 2002, he has sifted through hundreds of journals belonging to strangers and edited them into comedic pieces. He has written and produced numerous TV pilots for places UPN, VH1 and Comedy Central that were so amazing, they never even aired.

Klappentext

Picking up where "Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic." leaves off, this collection uncovers priceless artifacts of teen angst that tell of unrequited crushes, awkward hookups, odd celebrity infatuations, and all manner of romantic catastrophes. Illustrated.

Zusammenfassung
Relive the angst.

From starter girlfriends to escapist fantasies to delusional attempts to stand out amongst their peers, Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield revisits the boundlessly embarrassing topic of childhood love, uncovering priceless artifacts of authentic teen angst that tell of unrequited crushes, awkward hookups, odd celebrity infatuations, and all manner of romantic catastrophes. The now older (and allegedly wiser) authors of these letters, lyrics, and journals bravely share their shame in stories that range from sweetly hopeful to borderline psychotic.

Everyone who ever obsessed over whether that guy or girl in algebra class liked them, or, y'know, liked them liked them, will relish this funny and touching valentine to our collective past