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Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself | 
 enlarge | Author: From The Writers Of Collegehumor.com
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 48503
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.607
ASIN: B000VSGC9Y
Publication Date: March 22, 2007
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Product Description
The ultimate guide to faking it through the real world! Now the people who bring you the Webs most popular humor site teach you how to live the good life (or at least look like you do). With annual revenues surpassing $6 million and an astonishing 10 million unique visitors a month, CollegeHumor.com ranks within the top six hundred Web sites worldwide. Now, in a follow-up to their recently launched The CollegeHumor Guide to College, these cheeky alumni offer real-world novices a guide to getting aheadwithout getting out of bed before noon. In Faking It readers will learn how to bluff their way through on-the-job conversations, woo cute art students with the compelling use of the term postmodern, and feign a deep appreciation of Neruda. The CollegeHumor team of experts provides everything required to pull off an outstanding social life, including appearing to have cultural knowledge beyond references gleaned from The Simpsons. The sexual, financial, and social arenas have never been more competitive, so it cant hurt to act like you understand classical music, even if you prefer light beer to light opera. Published just in time for graduation, Faking It is the poseurs bible, but with less religious overtones than the real bibleand more pointers on conspicuously carrying an NPR tote bag.
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 Simply Wonderful! August 23, 2008
Buy this book, it's great. It's something like 60% funny BS and 40% valuable knowledge that you really can use and probably should have. I got this one and was laughing out loud and so far everybody I've let read it has loved it and most wanted to buy their own copy.
Laughed-out-loud!!! July 11, 2008
Perfect book for recent college grad or immature guys. Great book for a two-hour flight that actually has some good ideas for business. Made me laugh-out-loud several times. Recommend it highly to others like me who need a good laugh and some good mindless reading.
Quick! February 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not only did I find this book on Amazon for a fraction of the price it was in a store, but it took, I think, 2 days max to get to my house. And not only that, it was in perfect condition.
Amazing! July 31, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While the book is titled and themed around 'Faking It', you will come to realize that if you try these things, you will unwittingly improve yourself over time. There was a ton of good advice geared towards young adults coming out of college and in their early 20s, and also had a great mix of humor in with it. Basically it is a great self-improvement book that keeps you intensely interested beginning to end by offering out true advice mixed in with incredibly humorous sarcastic side notes.
 The idea itself is appalling to an old fuddy- duddy June 16, 2007
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
The basic idea is that by faking it in life you can make it ways you could not otherwise. The attempt is to provide all kinds of suggestions, mostly humorous which the guys can use to make themselves get whatever it is they happen to want in life.
But the basic idea as I understand it, and here I am an old fuddy- duddy is appalling. It is really recommending that 'dishonesty' be at the heart of whatever the person does.
What the authors say is that everyone does the things they recommend, and that they therefore are excusable. Here are some small examples. They say the person should pretend to know about classical music when they do not by answering the question as to which is their favorite composer by saying Mozart or Bach. They then say if there are further questions you can be dismissive to hide one's ignorance. This sounds to me like a trick a three year old would be able to detect the phoniness of. Another example they give is when someone wishes to convince others that they are handy. The authors recommend buying a cordless drill by which one can put a hole in anything. This sounds ridiculous and inane.
Perhaps I have been away from college for too many years. But I think it might be a better idea for the authors to devote their next project to the idea of how each one can truly make himself a better person by being more honest to and considerate of others. And this because also fooling others is most often a way of showing one 's disrespect for them.
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