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| How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (Nova Audio Books) | 
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Sales Rank: 2738841
Category: Book
Publisher: Nova Audio Books
Studio: Nova Audio Books
Manufacturer: Nova Audio Books
Label: Nova Audio Books
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 159086445X
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.41092
EAN: 9781590864456
ASIN: 159086445X
Publication Date: July 15, 2002
Release Date: July 15, 2002
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Product Description
In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now - so why couldn't he? But things didn't go quite according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him.
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. But it's more than "the longest self-deprecating joke since the complete works of Woody Allen" (Sunday Times); it's also a seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. And there's even a happy ending as Toby Young marries - "for proper non-cynical reasons," as he puts it - the woman of his dreams. "Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first."
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 Hysterical from cover to cover September 11, 2008
Hands down, this is the funniest memoir I have ever read. Young's ability to make fun of everything around him and himself at once makes an otherwise trite set of instances over the top hilarious. I will be going to this movie, as I have no doubt it will be every bit as funny as the book. The ordering a stripper, Vanity Fair Oscar Party and interacting with Graydon scenes alone could carry a whole movie.
If you don't take yourself seriously and can abide a very funny fool, you'll love this.
 What a horribly indulgent human and book September 2, 2008
This is one of those few books that you really want to root for, that the hero/author somehow learns from their errors and does a 180. This is not that book. I wish I could get back the time I spent reading this book. I will probably end up using it to light some winter fires. It is not even worth donating or passing it along.
Toby Young (at least in this book) loves the sound of his own voice (even it is just whining or using his parents' credentials to give him meaning) and never truly admits just how self-indulgent, arrogant, and downright oblivious he is.
 Book Purchase August 25, 2008
I thought that this was a very entertaining book. Toby is not always a very likable person in this story but he is brutally honest about himself and that is part of what makes the book so entertaining. At times I did find it droned on too much about facts on who is who in the fashion industry which didn't interest me so much but it was still a fun read.
Don't waste your time. July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The top five things I hate about Toby Young's book:
5. The writing.
This book was seriously dull. His anecdotes and his writing lacked any kind of insightful spark. With access to Vanity Fair bigwigs and Candace Bushnell's inner circle, you'd think he would have more to report than the fact that they all hated him.
4. Any sentence Young wrote about himself.
They usually started out as self-deprecating and quickly eased themselves in self-pitying. "Then I got fired again haha...I'm so underappreciated." "
3. His conclusions about the nature of America and New York City.
While I appreciated that Young did his research and made interesting statements based on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, I was astounded that he was deluded enough to believe that Americans did not appreciate his boorish and asinine sense of humor because they are too uptight and PC. What made him think that British people were more accepting of his sense of humor if the entire book was about him trying to escape his failure in Britain?
2. His attitude toward women.
To say the least, I was completely repulsed by Young's treatment of women throughout the book. He is a skeez who judges women only on their looks (bonus points are given to women who make a living on their looks), yet he constantly whines that women are shallow for turning him down due to his baldness, mediocre looks, lack of gainful employment, or any combination of these charming factors. Ugh.
1. The fact that I waded through the whole thing despite reasons 2-5.
I must be a masochist.
Good gift for people in the print business April 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I gave the book as a gift to my daughter who is in NY media/publication. She liked it as she could relate to events and characters mentioned in the book.
I have not read it myself.
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