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    Spoiled Brats: Stories

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    About this audiobook

    Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price.

    From "one of the funniest writers in America"* comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars. Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists-and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way.

    A hardworking immigrant is preserved for a century in pickle brine. A helicopter mom strives to educate her demon son. And a family of hamsters struggles to survive in a private-school homeroom.

    Surreal, shrewd, and surprisingly warm, these stories are as resonant as they are hilarious.

    *Jimmy So, Daily Beast
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2014
    ISBN9781478927266
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    • 4/5
      Funny short stories with satirical twists. All a bit samey in tone, like an amusing New Yorker piece, aiming at Thurber or early Woody Allen.Read through the whole thing in one go like eating a bag of potato chips, equally as pleasant, equal desire to go back and do it again.
    • 4/5
      This was a very funny book by a good young writer. The stories are satirical looks at our current state of affairs. Rich is very creative in his use of animals etc. to make his point about our self centered society. Most of the stories are short but he has one long one called "Sellout" about an immigrant in 1912 that falls into a vat of pickle brine and is preserved for 100 years and reappears preserved and goes to live with his great grandson in Brooklyn. Very funny and it deals with a ton of good stuff. It is a classic. I will definitely seek out his other stuff and read it.
    • 5/5
      This is quite the treat. I heard the first part of the first story on NPR one Saturday and was captivated. Listening to the whole book just continued the captivation. This guy's brain is a fun place.
    • 2/5
      I spread these stories out over several weeks. Even still, only a few were funny. Most had very obvious premises that weren't really worth any elaboration, and the writing is very flat. > That's the one complaint I have about doing a semester abroad: I'm interested in other cultures, and that's why I came to Saturn, to experience new things, but I'm sorry, the food here is ass.> In just five years, I'd amassed more accolades than any chimp in history. My mastery of sign language was so vast and fluent, it had earned Professor Fitzbaum a MacArthur Genius Grant.> The Stromberg family had been practicing this rite for generations. He himself had witnessed his mother shove his grandmother onto an ice floe. They were on a ski trip in Vermont, and his grandmother had forgotten the name of the actor who played Frasier.> "Gabe's fiction could upend the entire literary establishment. His stories are so original—so unlike anything from Iowa—it could turn the world of letters on its head. And once he conquers that arena, his power will only grow. It starts with a few online stories. Then he finishes his novel. The next thing you know, he's become a figure so globally dominant, all mankind is crushed beneath his yoke. We must stop his rise!" … They hired construction workers to drill outside his window every time he tried to write. … They paid actors to pose as friends and invite him to parties every Saturday, so that he'd be too hungover to write on his one day off. And they sent him a series of girlfriends to distract him from his art with a mixture of affection and love. Still, despite their efforts, Gabe hadn't abandoned his writing. He still threatened to collapse the status quo and tear apart the fabric of society.
    • 3/5
      MEH. The first story (Animals) was fantastic and some of the others were okay (Big Break, Sell Out, Guy Walks Into A Bar, Family Business). I would read more, but maybe be more selective.