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| Edition Language: | English |
Maggie Georgiana Young
Kindle Edition | Pages: 366 pages Rating: 3.85 | 75 Users | 23 Reviews
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| Title | : | Just Another Number |
| Author | : | Maggie Georgiana Young |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 366 pages |
| Published | : | March 6th 2015 by Bad Reputation Publications (first published February 10th 2015) |
| Categories | : | Feminism. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Just Another Number is a memoir structured by the first 23 men I had sex with. It’s about how American society curbs women to validate themselves by men. Through my lovers, I relive all the shit I got myself into because of that. The book paints a gritty portrait of a Tennessee teen who- in the midst of bulimia and meth abuse- joins the Navy.Just Another Number hops through the various shades of chauvinism in the conservative Bible Belt, the male dominated military, and the superficiality of southern California. My story is littered with hypocritical Christians, brainwashed warriors, deadbeat band guys, and the spoiled, cocaine snorting trust fund offspring of California’s elite. It also entails eating disorders, drug cultures, social media, and of course, military corruption. Although the memoir harbors the darkness and tragedies of my stories, it is packed full of raunchy, satirical humor. Just Another Number dips into the gritty, humiliating aspects of sex from bodily functions to cringe-worthy one-night stands.
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Ratings: 3.85 From 75 Users | 23 ReviewsRate About Books Just Another Number
I never knew that there could be a book so funny and heartbreaking at the same time. This book is darkly written, much like the raw tone of Chuck Palahniuk. Although it is a memoir, I felt like I was reading a fiction book the entire time. It also shed a light on the military that goes unspoken of- rather than glorify or demonize it, Young mocks it, giving readers a graphic, first hand experience of patriotic brainwash, negligent military spending, and the dehumanization in military trainingIt takes an enormous amount of courage to disclose one's life to the extent that Young has done in this frank, and sometimes confrontational, memoir. Such courage must be respected even when the means of expressing it do not altogether please.Young's writing is in general articulate and fluent, and the book was an easy read from that point of view, although use of language was at times careless and the work would have benefited from tighter editing.I did find parts of the book distasteful. There
This book was torture to read. Aside from the glaring mistakes of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure, I found the writing to be that of a girl who has been told she writes well but doesn't actually write well. I did not find any of the stories particularly engaging; they all seemed devoid of emotion and sincerity. Though the tag line is, "Every grave I dug for myself was in the name of a man", the book didn't seem to support that. She tried to play each of her one night stands off as
Smart. Sexy. Raw. Just Another Number. This raw look into a young girl's wildly sexual journey into womanhood is tantalizing. Her sexual strength is realized through the torturous pain of the stupidity that is male. This must read is not an average look at why feminism was born. You learn to love and respect yourself before any man can.
Books That Every Badass Woman Should ReadMaggie Young divides the narrative of Just Another Number between the first 23 men she slept with. Handing over her narrative to these men is deliberate. Young is making a point here about the need to please men that society has forced on her. Her story is dark, and tragic at points, but Youngs voice remains strong, satirical, and even humorous throughout. Her raunchy and highly readable memoir stands as proof that women can make it through an awful lot
This was a fun read in spite of the fact it deals with some really difficult topics. From child abuse to rape to how women are too often mistreated by the men they date all with an insight into the world of the Navy.The language in the book is salty, which I loved because it's not something you hear often from women. That language, though, offers some really intense descriptions of sex and also perfectly spot on observations of relationships between children and parents, men and women and how
Took me awhile to finish this book, but it was not because it was bad, life just got in the way. That always sucks when you are enjoying a book and can't get to it as I really enjoyed reading about Maggie Young's life and experiences. This is an honest and raw memoir of her life. What I liked about reading Maggie's story is that this could be anyone. There was no BS exaggerations like some of the humour based memoirs where the author, *cough, cough, Jenny Lawson, writes dumb stuff to try to make
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