Faking It : How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself

By Ethan Trex, CollegeHumor.com, Amir Blumenfeld, et al.

Book Overview

The ultimate guide to faking it through the real world! Now the people who bring you the Web?s 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 ahead?without getting out of bed before noon.In Faking Itreaders 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 can?t hurt to act like you understand classical music, even if you prefer light beer to light opera.Published just in time for graduation, Faking Itis the poseur?s bible, but with less religious overtones than the real bible?and more pointers on conspicuously carrying an NPR tote bag.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525949917
• ISBN13: 9780525949916
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended

I found this book on accident and the title caught my eye. I was looking for a book to entertain my friend who broke his leg and found this. I was aiming for "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" and I ended up getting this one too. It's really funny and perfect for the college student/graduate that knows what it is like to just get by whether it be riding coattails or what have you. Great gift, probably more suitable for a guy but I am a girl and thoroughly enjoyed the book and ended up buying myself a copy later on. Good as a coffee table book and to read straight through. Highly recommended.

Simply Wonderful!

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.

Amazing!

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.

Life's Easy Little Shortcuts

A very funny book full of great advice for guys on how to seem just a little bit better than you actually are. Topics range from the practical, ordering wine and throwing a cocktail party with minimal effort, to the extreme, making up jail stories and doing drugs while looking respectable. The book can be read in an afternoon or can be used as a reference guide.

SO TRUE - I know a ton of people like this!

This book was pretty funny and has lots of good general knowledge tidbits. It actually has practical, fact-based information that makes the book feel like an encyclopedia for hipsters. For example, I really don't follow sports, but now I know that I can say that a team is "all coached up." I got the first College Humor book and loved it. This one didn't let me down.