Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig
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Book Reviews of Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
Book Review: FUNNY
Summary: 4 Stars
I love his sense of humor! I was literally laughing out loud on the plane.Book Review: More heat than light
Summary: 3 Stars
Paul Feig's memoir focuses on Geek pride. Each essay/story promises adolescent Paul's assimilation into the non-Geek world--and then squashes any hope of "normality." Paul's parents create an olive drab elf costume out of Army-Navy surplus, and Paul gets caught by neighborhood kids cross dressing at age eleven, and Paul can't take a shower in gym, and Paul can't play any sport worth a damn but gets an erection climbing the rope. I read most of this book through my fingers, afraid to look in ways I haven't felt since "Leave It To Beaver." You know it will always go wrong. My trouble was that I couldn't help hoping Paul might find some slim solace--at the very least in some acceptance of himself--and he never really does. Though very funny, this memoir balances hope and fear less effectively. Maybe Paul Feig was simply painting a true picture of a hapless childhood, but--I'm horrified to admit--I sometimes found my sympathy sliding toward the jocks. Could that be what Feig had in mind?Book Review: Count Me Out
Summary: 2 Stars
Sorry, but this geek is not jumping on the geekwagon. Despite being sub'ed Adventures in Adolescence, many of the anecdotes actually deal with the author's pre-adolescent years, coming of age-olescence if you will, and frankly they are the funnier entries. (But am I wrong to doubt that the author could really start having orgasmic experiences at age 7?) The biggest problem is that the germ obsession sets the author apart from the typical geek, who would have gladly braved a little [spoiler warning here] puke breath to make out with a cute girl, and way too many of the experiences described in the book deal with that phobia. There are 2-3 laugh out loud passages, 6-8 cleverly turned phrases, but they don't make up for the laborious redundancies - Bill, we get it about the rope, enough with the "25 foot lover" references, the repeated return to the mincing descriptions, etc.Book Review: Big Loser
Summary: 2 Stars
I picked this book up because Amazon recommended it based on other books I liked. I was hoping for another Augusten Burroughs or David Sedaris. Instead, I found nothing interesting, unique, or even very funny about this book. The chapter on vomit did me in.