The author was an ROTC graduate with no long term Army commitment. Instead, the focus is on five Bs: booze, babes, boredom, bureaucracy, and occasionally battle. The focus of this book and of two later volumes in the series is war stripped of glory, high purpose, inspiration, and easy but false patriotism. Want an uplifting account of one young Army officer's service in the Vietnam War? Vietnam, A Memoir: Saigon Cop, is not it. And if you are inclined to look for second and third meanings to what I wrote, you will discover that I am a very shameless scoundrel. Much of it is biographical and starts out to be true until it is trumped by the punch line, a definite 'foot in the mouth" hyperbole. From this point I began to find my own voice. For an example: In Cannes there is handsome Pierre, The answer to a young maiden's prayer What makes her heart race Ain't his good looking face, But the buns on his French derriere. This did make it a more stressful challenge looking for a third rhyme, however slanted. To write a limerick better than he did, I would refrain from having the fifth line essentially a repeat the first. For example: Anna Mariah sat on a fire And burnt her poor butt to a char The pain so intense Helped her clear the back fence And launch her first flight to a star And for my limerick, I selected Lear's Book of Nonsense. I felt certain that I could do better by simply making her brutal violence a little more humorous. And so for my quatrain, I selected Mother Goose. Well, why not? I decided to do exactly that when I started to get serious about writing poetry. I can't locate the reference at the moment but from memory, Ernest Hemingway had suggested to this young writer that he read the works of other writers and then select something that he felt he could write a lot better, But, he said, be sure that the writer he selected was dead, or that writer could come back and do better than he did. Perfect for fans of HBO's Girls and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half, Don't Worry, It Gets Worse brings the best aspects of Nugent's blog-the Frenemy-to the page as a love note to boozin', bitchin' ladies everywhere. In Don't Worry, It Gets Worse, Nugent shares what it takes to make the awkward leap from wide-eyed undergrad to "mature and responsible adult that definitely never eats peanut butter straight from the jar and considers it a meal." From trying to find an apartment on the black hole otherwise known as Craigslist to the imaginative financial finagling required to pay off student loans and still enjoy happy hour, Nugent documents the formative moments of being a twentysomething with a little bit of snark and a lot of heart. After graduating college with a drink in one hand and a degree in the other, Alida Nugent was ready for the supportive, predictable embrace of "the real world." She didn't expect to be buried under a pile of student loan debt, laundry, and two-dollar bottles of wine, all of which pointed to the sinking realization that she had no idea what she was doing. "Touching and relatable." -BUST Magazine Overeducated, underemployed, and hungover is no way to go through life, but here we are. This is sure to be a favorite for teen girls. A Hyperbole and a Half for the young adult audience, the book includes comics and hands-on advice about serious issues like mental health and self-care, and also deals with questions on every young girl's mind, like "Can you survive on pizza alone?" Quirky, hilarious, and sincere, The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl empowers young women to challenge society's unrealistic standards of beauty and embrace their individuality. The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl provides humorous and highly relatable guidelines for all of the struggles young girls face, presented in author Christina De Witte's signature comic style and told from the point of view of her lovable Instagram and Internet character, Chrostin. Addressing the struggles of young girls everywhere, this hilariously relatable comic guide to life provides real advice and encourages a new generation of teen girls to find confidence and embrace individuality.With friends, love, social media, body image, and more-navigating young adulthood can seem impossible.
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