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Everything Is Wrong with Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong Paperback – Illustrated, March 2, 2010

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“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages of a book. Godspeed, reader.” — Steve Hely, author of How I Became a Famous Novelist

Jason Mulgrew’s wildly popular blog “Everything Is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry,” gives rise to a memoir of startling insight, comedy, and irreversible, unconscionable stupidity.

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March 2, 2010
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0061766658
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Blogger Mulgrew, an Irish Catholic son of working-class South Philly, grew up in the early 1980s. In his irreverent, self-deprecating, but frequently funny first book, based on his blog, he revisits his childhood and adolescence. Following in the footsteps of his storytelling father, who hung out with other guys in dive bars, the author encountered (and makes somewhat cursory use of) characters like the local kleptomaniac, a neighbor's teenaged uncle, who expanded on lessons in hustling previously laid down by a numbers-running grandfather, and the friend who launched further escapades in both entrepreneurship and juvenile pyromania. Mulgrew doesn't dwell sentimentally on his parents' rocky relationship, and in comparison to the seemingly endless run of adventures in ersatz jock-and-studhood, there's relatively little about his mother or his siblings. Instead, the book takes readers deep into a traditional, working-class social world where sports, Jackass-type pranks, and loyalty reigned. True to the lad-lit form and content, the narrative is often downright crude, with a Maxim-article tone. (Mar.)
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Mulgrew’s loose collection of 1980s and ’90s childhood anecdotes and mining of familial dysfunction (designed to “throw my family under the bus so that I can buy a high-def TV and force them to cut off contact with me for the rest of my life”) clearly subscribes to the Sedaris school of memoir writing. The stories range from his youthful coming to terms with the inadequacy of his penis to an ode to late-night drunken hooker spotting, but the most memorable character turns out to be his hard-drinking, quasi-criminal father. Mostly, though, the book functions as a collection of chapter-length bar yarns—the kind that come out when only the hardiest of livers are left—with little attention paid to continuity or organization and a lot to nailing self-deprecatory zingers, which come in two flavors: booze (too much) and sex (not enough). Mulgrew, a popular blogger, is a tremendously entertaining and affable writer as long as you’re not expecting anything revelatory and don’t mind wallowing with him in his shamelessly, cheerfully puerile tendencies. --Ian Chipman

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition (March 2, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 214 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061766658
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061766657
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.54 x 8 inches

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Jason Mulgrew is the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Is Wrong with Me and 236 Pounds of Class Vice President and retired blogger. His popular blog titled "Everything Is Wrong With Me" has received over 200 million hits since its inception. According to People magazine, he was one of the 50 Hottest Bachelors of 2005.

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slimelime12

O-Face awesome!

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2012

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From the first reference to Hooker Hunting and drinking to excess, I made the decision that this book would change my life. Jason Mulgrew, in his freshman masterpiece, created a blueprint for awesomeness for all of us Irish Catholics who are chronic alcoholics, bedwetters, occasionally obese, and enjoy gay bars.

The book made me want to load up my truck and move to Philly, and join in the Mummers Parade, but I had work to do on my own novel. So, this past New Year's so I elected to get drunk and dress in fabulous drag on my local Main Street. I even threw beads at a few people that couldn't appreciate my personal Mummers Day parade in Maryland. Next year, I will drink more beer and liquor and see if I could make it more interesting. Hell, maybe I will be like Jason's parents and take along neighborhood kids, which could be awkward since they aren't mine.

In any case, buy this book, it will change your life, and you will realize that your life is pretty normal, and you may grow to respect Jason and look forward to his sophomore writing effort, which is rumored to be hitting the shelves in the near future.

Also, the Hooker Hunting score card should be published. I know it is out there!

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Larry Hoffer

Laugh-out-loud funny memoir, but a little too self-deprecating

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2012

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When you look back on your childhood as an adult, things are often much funnier than they were when you were growing up. And if you have the type of childhood that Jason Mulgrew had, a) you have the makings of one hell of a memoir, and b) you're probably lucky you survived.

In his funny and immensely self-deprecating memoir, Everything is Wrong with Me, humorist Jason Mulgrew recounts his childhood growing up in working class Philadelphia in the 1970s and 1980s. From the auspicious beginning of how his parents met (his mother saw his costumed father marching in a Mummers parade while he was bleeding from a stab wound) to his experiences as a non-athletic child playing Little League baseball or being used as a decoy by his numbers-running grandfather, Mulgrew finds humor both in the ordinary situations he lived through as well as the hard-to-believe ones. And from his anecdotes about his adult life, it sounds as if he didn't learn much from his childhood!

There were a number of times I laughed out loud during this book, but at the same time, I felt as if Mulgrew tried a little too hard at times. And while his constant self-deprecation was funny at the start, by the end of the book you wondered whether his self esteem was really that low or if he thought it would make his story more appealing to readers. But those foibles notwithstanding, this book certainly stands alongside David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs in chronicling dysfunctional family life, although this book is a bit cruder (and, much like the pre-teen and teenage boy it follows, a little more sex-obsessed). Good fun.

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ShellyBeach

Nostalgia for late 20-/early 30-somethings

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2010

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I always listened to older people talk about what it was like growing up for them, and I thought it sounded so much better/cooler/more interesting/crime-laden/etc. then the 80's and into the early 90's. My childhood was admittedly very different from Jason's, but I had never considered that the kinds of things we did could be told in a way that evokes the same nostalgia and appreciation for the old days...from sneaking peaks at porn channels on stolen cable to chubby kids marvelling at the huge advances in video games that happened in our pre-teen years, I felt like Jason's book not only made me remember parts of my childhood but long for them...sure you might have a passing warm feeling thinking of whatever childhood memory some dumbass makes a facebook fanpage/group to remind you of, but this was real, like listening to grandparents reminisce...but it was about things I remember. Very cool.

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FrankTheYank

TMI

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017

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Growing up around the same time in Philly there were several parts which made me chuckle, but the fact that I could not read through a chapter without hearing about the author’s masturbation dropped the enjoyment tremendously

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Sloan

Blogging shouldn't always equate to authoring

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013

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There were some extremely funny parts of this book that gave me great hope of ending the year on a humorous memoir. It fell flat somewhere around the middle and never really picked up again. I didn't like his excessive footnotes (which is mainly because they are fairly tedious to view on the Kindle) and skipped the last half of them during the book. I also didn't like how much he made light of driving drunk, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Overall, he seems like a pretty funny guy who should have just stuck to Blog Land. I've never seen his blog but I have a feeling his writing fits a little better in a shorter, more freelance environment.

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Anna Roche

Very funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2011

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This is a very funny book by a young American who also has a successful blog and internet site. Born in 1979, he tells us about his parents, his siblings, his life growing up in Philly. One of his funniest chapters is on the sacraments of the Catholic Church (his family is Irish Catholic). Worth reading.

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Andrea

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2015

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very funny

Dafne

It is a funny story!

Reviewed in Mexico on August 19, 2014

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The story of the childhood and his family in the early 80's, so funny, fresh and honest. I can imagine a guy so relax and you can feel that he is just living his life without care to much for anything but his kid's adventures, So cool

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