{"product_id":"how-to-be-a-person-isbn-9781570617782","title":"How to Be a Person","description":"From Dan Savage, Lindy West, and The Stranger staff comes this hilarious guide to life for college students and beyond. Here is all the information you actually need to know that no one else will tell you including: which majors to avoid, how to not get a STD, everything there is to know about philosophy (in a single paragraph!), what the music you like says about you, how to turn a crush into something more, how to come out (should you happen to be gay), how to binge drink and not die, how do laundry, how to do drugs (and which ones you should never do), good manners, tips on flirting with film nerds, how to write a great sentence, and a state-by-state guide to the U.S. of A. It's all here, along with Dan Savage's very best advice about sex and love. Hi!\"If you're holding this book, standing there at a bookstore, wondering if a book like this is a dumb idea, open it up and you'll soon admit this book is very funny, lacking in all bullshit, and never dumb. If you're holding this book, presuming it to be funny and smart and lacking in bullshit, you will be glad to know it is all those things, but it also tells the truth. About 4 or 5 books a year tell the truth, and this is one of them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDave Eggers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eI went into college armed only with a trash bag used as luggage, a boom box held together with duct tape, and a battered 1965 Chevy. I so needed this guide back then. I am jealous of people who have it now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherman Alexie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Suck it, Proust. This book about stuff is much better than those things you wrote.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You may have read every college guidebook on the market, but it's pretty much guaranteed that none of them will tell you the things you really need to know about university life . . . \u003ci\u003eHow To Be A Person\u003c\/i\u003e, written by Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, and Bethany Jean Clement, will give you advice on everything you were too embarrassed to ask about.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't be fooled by the bitingly funny humor. This guide teaches simple tasks like how to wash socks, make tacos and not commit a heinous mistake on an English paper as well as how to face complicated situations such as deciding whether to experiment with illegal drugs, choosing an area of the United States to call home or coming out of the closet.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It could become an underground Bible for all incoming freshmen...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"…just as you should not read this book if you already know how to be a person, you probably \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c\/i\u003e read it if you don't.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLA Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"…may just be the first essential guide to university life since \u003ci\u003eAnimal House\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Snipe News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The all-purpose guide to your formative years, or, should you come to  this later, reformative years. …if  you take to Savage Love's sass-with-a-conscience, you'll find no better  one-stop guide to … well, life itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Current\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHow To Be A Person\u003c\/i\u003e should become required reading for anyone entering  into the realm of academia or even just leaving home for the first time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Charlatan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This book is immensely readable. ... The college population would feel a lot more enlightened, and  get laid a hell of a lot more, if they listened to Savage. For that  alone, you should get this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Campus Companion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don’t be fooled by the title. \u003ci\u003eHow To Be A Person: The Stranger’s Guide  To College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos And Life Itself\u003c\/i\u003e is not a college guide at all, but rather a guide to being a cool human  being while attending school.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW Toronto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLindy West \u003c\/b\u003ewrites about movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and more. Lindy's work also appears in GQ, New York magazine, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the New York Daily News, Deadspin.com, and other places. \u003cb\u003eDan Savage \u003c\/b\u003ewrites the sex-and-relationship advice column \"Savage Love.\" He is also the founder of the It Gets Better Project and editorial director of \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher Frizzelle \u003c\/b\u003ejoined \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e as the literary editor in 2003 and became editor in chief in 2007 at the age of 27. \u003cb\u003eBethany Jean Clement\u003c\/b\u003e writes about eating food, knowing cows (and eating them), drinking drinks, and more. 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