No One Asked For This: Essays
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No One Asked For This: Essays

Paperback – November 17, 2020

Price
$10.77
Format
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0358197027
Dimensions
5.31 x 0.88 x 8 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

Description

A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: PureWow * Pop Sugar * HelloGiggles * Bustle "Cazzie David is the delicious antidote to the poisonxa0of basic influencer culture. This book will make all misanthropes feel seen and loved--well, seen and tolerated." —Diablo Cody, screenwriter and author of Candy Girl “If you think you’re having trouble copy with the day-to-day trials and tribulations, think again. This book will make you laugh, think, but mostly feel better about your own sanity.” —Chelsea Handler, comedian and New York Times bestselling author of Life Will Be the Death of Me…And You, Too! "Cazzie David is one of the funniest, most original writers of this up-and-coming generation. This book couldn't have come at a better time." —Amy Schumer, comedian and New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo "Cazzie David's gimlet-eyed worldview produces observations so sharp and so funny they will literally make you gasp with laughter and shock at once. No One Asked for This is an incisively funny look at a specific moment in time and in that strange expanse of early adulthood. Every page wraps unguarded insights in a delicious shell of acid-tongue wit. I ate this book up!" —R. Eric Thomas, bestselling author of Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America "It would be far more convenient for everyone involved to hate this and Cazzie David herself, but of course, she doesn’t make anything easy. Unfortunately, these essays are an astute portrait of the mortifying ordeal of being known, capturing the embarrassment of a life reluctant to be lived. These essays are an inner monologue on its best behavior–sitting around with a friend in comfortable silence, or meeting that one person at a party and sighing, “Oh, thank god.” Here, everyday observations are sprinkled with brutal honesty, a refreshing break for people whose instinct, and respite, is preferring to not." —Darcie Wilder, author of literally show me a healthy person "The sharp, anxiety-fueled essays in Cazzie David's No One Asked for This are exactly what the world needs after a year like 2020. David tackles social anxiety, shame spirals, and existential dread with the kind of gallows humor that will surely make her famous dad, Larry David, proud." —PopSugar, Best New Books of November "Full of darkly funny reflections on her life. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks about being alive, David chronicles her life's most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor and self-awareness." —PureWow, 9 Books to Read inxa0November “[A] darkly funny collection of essays…You’ll desperately want to be David's best friend, which is probably exactly what she was hoping wouldn’t happen. The next time you feel like indulging a pang of nihilism, this will fit the bill.” —HelloGiggles, The 10 Best New Books To Read in November " Blisteringly honest...kind of like if a David Sedaris book was written by an anxiety-ridden millennial who grew up in Hollywood." — Entertainment Weekly "[David] will make you bark with laughter in these essays about family, relationships and the perils of social media." — People Magazine — CAZZIE DAVID is the creator, writer, and star of the critically acclaimed web series Eighty-Sixed. She is a columnist at Graydon Carter’s Air Mail and has written for Vanity Fair , the Hollywood Reporter , Glamour , InStyle , and Vogue.

Features & Highlights

  • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.
  • For Cazzie David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks about being alive and everyone else having to be alive too, David chronicles her life’s most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness. In
  • No One Asked for This
  • , David provides readers with a singular but ultimately relatable tour through her mind, as she explores existential anxiety, family dynamics, and the utterly modern dilemma of having your breakup displayed on the Internet. With pitch-black humor resonant of her father, comedy legend Larry David, and topics that speak uniquely to generational malaise, No One Asked for This is the perfect companion for when you don’t really want a companion."Blisteringly honest...kind of like if a David Sedaris book was written by an anxiety-ridden millennial who grew up in Hollywood."—Entertainment Weekly "Cazzie David is the delicious antidote to the poison of basic influencer culture. This book will make all misanthropes feel seen and loved—well, seen and tolerated."—Diablo Cody, screenwriter and author of Candy Girl

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Give book deals to real writers

I normally would give support to a female author because this world needs more of them but this book is bad bad. David’s lack of writing skills are borderline offensive and prove that this book deal came from nepotism. Everything about this book reeks of privilege, even the content which is maybe only relatable for children of celebrities.
40 people found this helpful
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Not good for teenagers!

One chapter is titled I’m too full to f... that’s not something for teenagers to read another part talks about wanting to kill her self that’s as far as I got just thumbing through it in the first minute I picked it up
Husband thought her interview on tv was sweet.
This book doesn’t look sweet
16 people found this helpful
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A privileged flashback to Xanga

Wanted to like this so much more than I did. Very ‘woe is me’ coming from the girl who exudes ‘cool calm and mysterious..also low key bffs with John mayer’ on insta (which she claims to hate but utilizes for 99% of her marketing audience?). Cazzie is full of contradictions like most of us humans but I agree with other reviews, this book highlights tropes of nepotism. The essays themselves are fourth grade writing level at best. The “Twitter if I had one” section is best which I think speaks to how much Cazzie relates to others via internet language. I appreciate her attempt at honesty but writing isn’t Cazzie’s strongest platform. Do you really expect us to sympathize with your breakup while you were on an African Safari?!
15 people found this helpful
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Pass on this

This was hard to get through. I enjoyed Cazzie’s webseries but her humor doesn’t work in her writing. She comes off as a privileged child who’s only problem in life is her anxiety which she tries and fails to exploit for humor.
12 people found this helpful
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Get This

I wouldn’t label myself as a “reader” but I’ve always dug Cazzie’s vibe so I figured why not get this book. I hate to admit it, but I have never finished a book front to back. I lose interest, get distracted. I finished this book in 2 days. I bursted out laughing, I teared up, I nodded my head violently agreeing with half of the crap she has been through on a distant scale. Highly recommended read.
9 people found this helpful
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Who says this book is meant for teens?

The person who submitted a one star review DIDN'T BOTHER TO READ THE BOOK OR DO ANY RESEARCH ON THE AUTHOR before giving one star. So what if the book isn't good for teens? Perhaps that wasn't the audience? I was going to buy this book anyway, but if judgmental people can give one star without reading the damn book, I can give 5 stars just from reading an excerpt.
Update: Worth every penny. I read this straight-through and stand by my 5 star rating. I liked it so much I sent a copy to a friend.
8 people found this helpful
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self indulgent and uninteresting

read something else.
7 people found this helpful
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Not Good

This book is not well written; it’s full of errors, and is just bad storytelling. It’s clear that this woman got a book deal because of who her dad is. I can’t help but agree with Cazzie that no one asked for this - the last thing we need in 2020 is a memoir written by a 26 year old millionaire.
7 people found this helpful
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Don’t waste your time

Not worth reading. Could have been a high schooler’s creative writing assignment. I love memoir/nonfiction but this was garbage.
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She’s reading it ...

Bought it for my daughter because I though it would be more relatable than something by a phd. I was right. She’s reading it and relates to it. If you have a teen with anxiety I think they would enjoy this book. It doesn’t matter that she’s a rich kid or who her dad is. She has a common problem that plagues many teens today and she’s been thoughtful enough to try to help other kids with her book by sharing her thoughts and experiences. For those ripping the writing style and that her daddy has money....This book ain’t for you Karen.
6 people found this helpful