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Teen Angst? Naaah: A Quasi-Autobiography
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Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini started writing seriously at age 15. He was 16 when one of his essays was published in "New York Press", 17 when another appeared in "The New York Times Magazine". He's about to turn 19, and this is his first book. Watch Out, World! With humor, intelligence, and refreshing honesty, Ned reveals what it was like to grow up in the 1990's. Starting in junior high (
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232 pages
Published
December 3rd 2005
by Free Spirit Publishing
(first published August 24th 2000)
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Nov 29, 2009
Ms. D
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Ms. D by:
Aaron Vivar III
It seems that a lot of adults who write books for and about teenagers try to sound 'authentically teen' by sounding brainless. For example, in the book I'm reading now, Future Missionaries of America, a high school girl writes a letter that begins like this: "Dear Kyle, I came home from school today totally bummed. I'm listening to the new Wu-Tang record and thinking that you would, like, so hate it it, because this is like totally the opposite of all that metal stuff you like, and before you kn
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May 01, 2008
Claudia
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
YA fans -- especially guys
Recommended to Claudia by:
Cameron, Rachel
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I've read all three Vizzini books, and this, his first, is my favorite. I laughed out loud in class, and my students got more than a little annoyed. But several were very interested in reading it next. Vizzini, as a 17-year-old, had an amazing voice and a control over his talent. His stories could be laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreaking. I'm just sorry I waited so long to read this one. Great stuff. Teen Angst? You bet!
This is basically a bunch of short stories about Ned Vizzini's life that he wrote, it goes from Junior High to Senior Year. All the stories were funny and entertaining but it made me sad because Ned talks about the future and his family and it's hard to read this knowing what eventually ends up happening to his life.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
In this quirky autobiography, Ned Vizzini has a collection of essays about his teen years through high school. Vizzini, personally being a favorite author after reading
It's Kind of a Funny Story
in seventh grade is one reason I was very eager to pick up this book. These essays are compiled into 5 sections middle school, and each year of high school. Born in Park-Slope New York, Ned was raised out of an apartment in a typical middle class family. Showing intrest in education since he was young,
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What is so great about this book is the truthfulness in it. You can really tell that all of this stuff happened to this author. It's just on the cuff of unbelievable but yet you can see it happening to you in a moment. Everything is incredibly easy to relate to. If you've been to high school or are in high school you will be able to relate to at least one of the twenty stories .
This book is also not written like a memoir. It never feels like the author is saying "When I was your age..." because ...more
This book is also not written like a memoir. It never feels like the author is saying "When I was your age..." because ...more
While I was reading the book Teen Angst? Naaaah… by Ned Vizzini I started to really think about whether or not memoirs have to be completely true. The reason I was thinking about this was because I felt that Vizzini did think they had to be true and I disagree with that. The way he wrote you could tell he couldn’t remember a lot of things. He had almost no sensory details, and hardly any feeling. There was dialogue but very little; there was no real ending; and some parts were just unnecessary.
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What is so great about this book is the truthfulness in it. You can really tell that all of this stuff happened to this author. It's just on the cuff of unbelievable but yet you can see it happening to you in a moment. Everything is incredibly easy to relate to. If you've been to high school or are in high school you will be able to relate to at least one of the twenty stories .
This book is also not written like a memoir. It never feels like the author is saying "When I was your age..." becaus ...more
This book is also not written like a memoir. It never feels like the author is saying "When I was your age..." becaus ...more
The characters in my book were realistic. Ned he was the curious kid who was always trying his best in school and always will to learn something new. He acted like a normal high school student by going to band concerts and staying up late to study for his big tests. He was curious by trying the illegal things as in marijuana and drinking alcohol coming home to his parents to see if he could get away with them no noticing. His parents were very realistic as well taking care of two boys fighting o
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Teen Angst? Naaah… was the first book of Ned Vizzini’s that I did not enjoy reading, which came as a huge surprise to me considering the fact that I’ve absolutely loved all his other books. This memoir takes you through Vizzini’s experiences throughout his teenage years. The story begins in Ned’s last months of middle school where he first is introduced to high school and life after middle school. It ends in the summer after his senior year. This novel had many characteristics typical of a memo
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Teen Angst? Naaah...
The way i came across reading this book was from the 8th grade summer reading assignment. Although i had to read it for the summer homework,, i had heard much about it before then from family and friends. they had all said that it was a great book that everyone should read as a teenager, and as i read that i found out it was true.
Plot
One very interesting an unique thing about this book is its plot. This plot takes you through all of Ned Vizzini's teenage years, unlike a tradi ...more
The way i came across reading this book was from the 8th grade summer reading assignment. Although i had to read it for the summer homework,, i had heard much about it before then from family and friends. they had all said that it was a great book that everyone should read as a teenager, and as i read that i found out it was true.
Plot
One very interesting an unique thing about this book is its plot. This plot takes you through all of Ned Vizzini's teenage years, unlike a tradi ...more
I decided to read teenage angst?…naah because it was one of the choices on our summer reading list. I also decided to read it because it was the only one of the choices on the list that didn’t look that depressing. It looked interesting not just because he grew up in nyc but something about it just intrigued me.
Characters
Ned Vizzini, the author, was also the main character of the book, so you could think of the book as some kind of memoir. Ned was a sad character at certain parts in the book be ...more
Characters
Ned Vizzini, the author, was also the main character of the book, so you could think of the book as some kind of memoir. Ned was a sad character at certain parts in the book be ...more
Serack Woldehaimanot 12.18.08
901 Writing Arts
Teen Angst? Naaah…
Teen Angst? Naaah….
By Ned Vizzini
ISBN-13: 9780440237679
Price: $6.50
279pp
Age Range: Young Adult
Teen Angst? Naaah... is for anyone who has been shot down by someone of the opposite sex, been embarrassed by their parents, skipped studying to hang with friends or bascially just went to high school. Going through teenager life is pretty hard for everyone. Ned shares all of his doing when he was a teen and how he lived life out loud. H ...more
901 Writing Arts
Teen Angst? Naaah…
Teen Angst? Naaah….
By Ned Vizzini
ISBN-13: 9780440237679
Price: $6.50
279pp
Age Range: Young Adult
Teen Angst? Naaah... is for anyone who has been shot down by someone of the opposite sex, been embarrassed by their parents, skipped studying to hang with friends or bascially just went to high school. Going through teenager life is pretty hard for everyone. Ned shares all of his doing when he was a teen and how he lived life out loud. H ...more
I read Teen Angst by Ned Vizzini, and it’s an autobiography about how Ned grew up and how his life was played out. I have read one of his other books, “ It’s Kind of A Funny Story” I really like this because I can connect and kind of simulate the things he does in this book because I have done most of, well not most but some of the things he has done in his life. For say, when he was in karate. I was in karate for 5 years and earned my black belt in it but I don’t recall if he made it to that le
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I thought this book was phenomenal! When I think about the Young Adult genre, this book fits perfectly in the autobiography category. Teen Angst is a collection of essays by Ned Vizzini about his experiences in high school. All of the typical high school experiences are included but this novel is written from the point of view of a dork, but a proud dork at that.
Vizzini’s book is an excellent choice and an easy read for any teacher’s classroom. I highly recommend it as a text that could be used ...more
Vizzini’s book is an excellent choice and an easy read for any teacher’s classroom. I highly recommend it as a text that could be used ...more
This semi-autobiographical series of essays chronicling the woes of adolescence is a hilarious look at what we all endured when we were young. Each essay covers a time period that focuses on 8th grade up until Vizzini's senior year. He talks about not fitting in, dressing like an idiot, spilling things on himself at the worst times (one of my favorite stories in the book), being rejected by girls (and everyone else for that matter), acne, drinking, drugs, and sex. There's a little bit of somethi
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Ned's family took cheap vacations - airplanes cost too much; cool resorts? way too many people. For vacations, Ned's family piled into a van and headed to bizarre and out of the way locations sem-close to New York. Like Binghamton NY for example - birthplace of the twilight zone creator Rod Serling. Yes, Ned had actually been to a Serling Museum.
On one of these jaunts, his family ended up at Allentown, Pennsylvania. They were supposed to go to the Poconos but at the last minute, his dad decided ...more
On one of these jaunts, his family ended up at Allentown, Pennsylvania. They were supposed to go to the Poconos but at the last minute, his dad decided ...more
I actually loved this book. Like all of Vizzini's other books, it was raw, but like the good raw, just like the raw, pure truth. He put everything out there, he was completely open about everything (he even had the footnotes, which I thought were the most adorable things ever.) Vizzini takes you through his dorky middle/high school life, and I thought every word was just amazing. There's one reference he makes to a movie called
Stand and Deliver
, a movie I love, that was witty and cracked me u
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In my opinion throughout this whole book it just taught you life lessons. There wasn't really one theme it was just alot of opinions and tips on life but mostly high school. For example in the book it says on page 45, "You have three optons: good grades, social success, and sleep" Ned Vizzini (the author) is giving advice on how to get threw going to stuyvesant . He also gives other pieces of advice too. For example he said that alot of things that pepole make sound so cool don't live up to it's
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I loved reading Teen Angst it was hilarious and I just wanted it to go on forever. The details he provides are so vivid and I felt like i know everything about him without ever meeting him. For example in the chapter Nintendo Saved My Life when he gave the full schedule of what he did with his day and how everything revolved around playing on the nintendo. I also noticed that he used slowed down moments alot,like when he described going to meet poppy, i would lik eto be able to use that successf
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The book Teen Angst Naaah… is a pretty good book. it was very interesting. This book is about the author Ned Vizzini. It is a collection of memoirs he wrote while he was in highschool about his life in highschool. he is a pretty good writer so his memoirs were funny and sometimes sad. I liked how he wasn’t scared to portray himself as a nerd and as the unpopular kid. Also I liked that he wrote about the school he went to which was Stuyvesant. This was good because now I know more about this scho
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First of all, I was worried I wouldn't be able to relate to this book because I am no longer a teen (though, the angst part is probably still questionable.)
I'd like to dust myself off and apologize for judging a book by it's title. This book took me on a totally relatable nostalgia train.
Second of all, this book is hilarious. I can't tell you the number of times I put the kindle down to go find my fiance and show him a paragraph.
Thirdly, the book is really well written. It keeps you interested ...more
I'd like to dust myself off and apologize for judging a book by it's title. This book took me on a totally relatable nostalgia train.
Second of all, this book is hilarious. I can't tell you the number of times I put the kindle down to go find my fiance and show him a paragraph.
Thirdly, the book is really well written. It keeps you interested ...more
In the last few chapters of the book it tralked about how the main charecters life is. one example was the backpack he had over the years how it was all great, then one day his back pack went down the escalaters and bashed down to a girls kness. onother chapter is that he is preparing for a test and needs to study. one chapter shows that his parents asked him if he has been smoking behind there back. this is a good book to read you should read it
Ned Vizzini’s exploration of growing from boy to adolescence covers familiar territory. He fully admits he was the dorky kid, the shy boy, the one who played Magic the Gathering when other kids were learning how to score with girls, etc. (why aren’t these boys-to-men stories ever written by the popular kids?).
So what’s different? Not much. The book manages to be intermittently funny, mainly because he doesn’t shy away from embarrassing situations in which he was front and center. However, there’ ...more
So what’s different? Not much. The book manages to be intermittently funny, mainly because he doesn’t shy away from embarrassing situations in which he was front and center. However, there’ ...more
Teen Angst was a great and funny book. Ned Vizzini wrote about his high school years and how his life was so dramatic. A lot of things he wrote I would have never thought about him, like how he described himself as a big time nerd. I love Ned Vizzini's writing and can't wait to read more of his books!
Look, this rating is completely biased. It's unfair because 1) I love Ned Vizzini, 2) Ned Vizzini died less than two years ago, and 3) this isn't a novel, which I usually read, but a collection of essays. I can't be unbiased because this entire thing is about Ned's life, and I'm just eager to suck up every little detail about it. Are the essays good? I've no idea, I'm not an English teacher. Did I personally enjoy them? Very much so. He wrote about his life, and he wrote as he went through it, a
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I read this as a book club recommendation at the high school I work at and I LOVED IT! The writing style is engaging and real. I felt like the authors childhood almost mirrored my own. Over-all amazing book and a very quick read. I highly recommend. I look forward to reading his other books.
Stylistically and structurally, Vizzini is playful throughout the collection of memoirs. He throws in footnotes to allow the reader to choose whether they indulge in the more personal, optional tidbits or stick to the overall plot of the memoir. Vizzini also uses structure to keep the reader intrigued so that they are not stuck reading in the same boring format. For instance, he uses a schedule to do his daily life rather than listing it out. The visual schedule lets the reader get a gist of the
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Jan 05, 2011
713grierz :
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review of another edition
Shelves:
7th-grade-bookshelf
Ned Vizzini does an amazing job in his memoir. He uses relatable comedy to keep you sucked in to this hilarious ride through his high school carer. His dialogue, description of emotion, and awkwardness, is just a pleasure to read. I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes a laugh.
funny and light. there isn't much of a story though. it just consisted of random stories throughout his high school life. it was still enjoyable all throughout. I kept laughing so much that my brother got curious and asked me what I was reading. that doesn't happen often.
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Died December 19, 2013.
Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.
After he wrote an essay that got published by the New York Times Magazine, several of his essays about his young adult li ...more
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Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.
After he wrote an essay that got published by the New York Times Magazine, several of his essays about his young adult li ...more
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It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, "who's coolest?"
Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together”
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