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The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

by Eugene Mirman

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Comic Advice for the Everyday Absurd

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Comic Advice for the Everyday Absurd

Eugene Mirman frames modern-life guidance as a comic handbook, turning familiar ambitions and anxieties into deliberately exaggerated advice. The book ranges from popularity and social anxiety to creative pursuits, band-starting, and reality television, with the author himself presented as an intentionally dubious authority. Its guidebook setup leaves room for jokes about self-improvement culture and the pressure to achieve, while the examples keep the focus on ordinary social and personal dilemmas rather than practical instruction.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of absurdist, self-deprecating humor
  • Readers who enjoy satirical advice-book formats
  • Adults interested in comic takes on social pressure and self-improvement

Themes

Modern lifeSocial anxietyPopularityCreative ambitionSelf-improvement satire

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Book overview

No one understands the complexities of modern life better than Eugene Mirman--claims Eugene Mirman—and anyone seeking guidance from a man who has lived through everything (except the Great Depression, the Spanish-American War, and Jerry Lee Lewis's sex scandal) won't resist this charmingly hysterical guidebook.
Become ultra-popular in high school (without "putting out" -- whatever that is) Discover somewhere between four and two thousand ways to overcome social anxiety (closer to four) Start a band, become an artist, or disappoint your parents by getting on a reality television show!
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