Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic.

by David Nadelberg

Book Overview

Share the shame. In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416928073
• ISBN13: 9781416928072
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

LOVE IT! Great idea and great book!

I loved it so much I bought it for my sister for Christmas. I've even been to the show! I disagree with those that say it's not as interesting as the show is as I've experienced both. These are all the people we all went to school with! These people are us! It's fun to read it and equate it to my high school life and friends. Even though there's a name attached I still think "I knew that person in high school!" It's comforting to know that you're not the only one who went through all that "drama". Oh! I'm just jealous I didn't think of it first!!

a joyful romp into everyone elses past

Sure, it may not have the joy of personal inflection performed on a stage, but these printed words are like a fractured time capsule that proves everyone was just as neurotic, obsessive, and unrealistic as you were. If you can't find your debbie gibson cd, your freaks & geeks dvds have gone AWOL, and your personal yearbook is too close to home yet you yearn for some nostalgia, you could do a lot worse than MORTIFIED.

Other People's Misery

It's gratifying to read about other people's dreadful teenage years. Weren't my own bad enough? Apparantly not. And here's the proof. You might take comfort in these chapters, perhaps re-examine the way you treated your more "fragile" peers. It's important to note that this is not an 80s family movie sanitized version of what kids go through. This is the ugly, pimply, dorky, greasy version... and for that it is to be highly recommended.

This Book Is Funny Delicious!

I personally kept a journal (fine, diary) all through grade school, junior high (the most horrid two-years of my life) and high school. I can't help but cringe when I read back on my childish angst, anger and insecurity. But when I read Mortified I realized I was not alone. Not alone in ending my entries with a "bye bye" as if the diary were an actual friend (like I had any)and not alone in obsessing shamelessly over boys who barely knew of my existance and never did become aware. The selections made from the various journals are all genius, but I especially loved David Nadelberg's "Unsent Love Letter" which starts off with "Hello Leslie! How is your day today? Mine's quite well, I must admit." So dorky and so sweet and it actually gets intentionally funny for a high school sophmore. I'm just saying, it would've worked on me! All the entries are good but my favorite part was being able to flip to the back of the book to the What The Hell Happened section and see, well, what the hell happened. So, if you have any voyeuristic tendencies what-so-ever, or you just like a good My Sharona reference, pick up this book. Bye bye.

Pretty Great

The stage show is funny as hell, and I'm happy to see that the book is, too. I was wondering how the stuff was going to translate on the page... it's actually more cringe-inducing in some cases. Love it.