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How to Ruin Everything

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How to Ruin Everything

By: George Watsky
Narrated by: George Watsky
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A New York Times Bestseller

"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition."
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical

Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right?

In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy), yet all are delivered with the type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky devoted fans across the globe.Alternately ribald and emotionally resonant, How to Ruin Everything announces a versatile writer with a promising career ahead. Entertainment & Celebrities Essays Celebrity Nonfiction Witty Comedy
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Loved it. I have listened multiple times as the stories feel timeless with the wit and cleverness he constructs his stories.

Funny, clever and touching. Brilliant storytelling

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Weirdly relatable and laugh out loud funny. I my be bias as I like his music aswell but its full of stories I think everyone will enjoy 😊

Worth listening to again!

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watsky is an excellent artist, performer and writer. He explains even the most mundane story like someone stealing your food in the fridge, with charm and wit, which expresses the talent he really has with a pen.

The book though short stays with you for a long time due to the heavily relatable stories expressed in his essays and his poetry.

Good job George.

Heartfelt, funny and narrated so sincerely.

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I'm a big fan of Watsky so when I saw this book I snapped it up. Like my title suggests; it was like an extended spoken word piece by the man himself. It had me chuckling at the tropes of his life and also left me with a sense that I was with him in all his adventure but a longing to have those adventures myself.

Extended Watsky Spoken Word

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How to ruin everything is an outstanding lesson in lifes learning curve. I would highly recommend this book

Every minute was a lesson

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