Stuff
Product Details
Gallery Books, January 2008
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1416954791
ISBN-13: 9781416954798
Description
Relive the angst.
From starter girlfriends to escapist fantasies to delusional attempts to stand out amongst their peers, Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield revisits the boundlessly embarrassing topic of childhood love, uncovering priceless artifacts of authentic teen angst that tell of unrequited crushes, awkward hookups, odd celebrity infatuations, and all manner of romantic catastrophes. The now older (and allegedly wiser) authors of these letters, lyrics, and journals bravely share their shame in stories that range from sweetly hopeful to borderline psychotic.
Everyone who ever obsessed over whether that guy or girl in algebra class liked them, or, y'know, liked them liked them, will relish this funny and touching valentine to our collective past
"If Schadenfreude was an Olympic sport, then this book would be its illegal performance-enhancing drug. The baring of souls is seldom this funny or touching. David Nadelberg is the Pied Piper of pre-adult pain."
-- Paul Feig, creator of Freaks and Geeks and author of Superstud and Kick Me
"In a world where people are obsessed with Google and MySpace, you'd think a book exposing the private love letters and diary entries of strangers would be anticlimactic, but David Nadelberg has compiled the best and, well, most mortifying into a riveting book."
-- Jane
Daily Vanguard, November 21, 2009
...entries, songs, old letters, home videos and stories that traumatized them when they were in their youth. Creator David Nadelberg is celebrating Mortifieds seventh year with events in nine cities, a second book and a Web series. Mortified ...
