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Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah Brown
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 91609
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307393585
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9780307393586
ASIN: 0307393585
Publication Date: August 26, 2008
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Product Description
Did you keep a diary during your teen years? Do you have a box of loopy-cursive, never-sent notes to your crush? Or some overwrought poetry about your bleak existence? An unfinished rockopera? Well, you’re not alone, and in Cringe, you’ll find a reason to unearth your adolescent angst and have a good laugh—at yourself.
A compilation of real teenage diary and journal entries, letters,
songs, stories, and lists—along with biting commentary, background, and self-examination from the now so-called grown-ups who wrote them—Cringe offers a voyeuristic glimpse at the roller coaster of youth in all of its navel-gazing, soul-searching, social-skewering glory.
Cringe -worthy excerpts include
Really bad poetry:
I lumber like the sad clown with
the hope that my performance
might make you smile.
Yet I am a flickering star over
a cloudy sky.
Blush-inducing pep talks:
OK. It’s the end of February. No more
kidding around! You have to go out
with someone! You haven’t gone out
with someone since the summer!
At least fool around with someone!
Come on! You’ve got it in ya!
Questionable motivations:
My mom is madly in love with
her boyfriend. . . . Cool! He’s so rich
. . . I could get a lot out of this—
vacations, a car—if he buys my mom
one + she gives me hers—psyche!
And rages against the world at large:
I am living in a dream world.
Wishes are a bunch of crap.
They never come true so what’s
the use of even wasting your
time hoping they’ll come true
when they don’t?
Inspired by the New York–based reading series of the same name, Cringe will help you realize that being a grown-up isn’t all that terrible. At least you don’t have to worry about who’s going to be at the mall anymore.
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| Customer Reviews:
Hidden Talent September 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I laugh out loud when I ready this book! And I feel like I'm doing something wrong by reading all these journal entries; such fun!
The entries make me remember all those embarrassing moments in middle school and high school which I was not brave enough to record much less share with millions of people. Kudos to Sarah Brown for pulling all this together!
A Triumph for the English Language August 26, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
A treat for the eyes and soul. Heart rendering confessions, crisp commentary, and superlative graphic reproduction. Should be in every household. If purchased in pairs and viewed simultaneously, provides amazing three dimensional effect - an objective observer
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