Oh, the Places You'll Eff Up: A Parody for Your Twenties

by Joshua Miller, Patrick Casey, Gemma Correll (Illustrator)

A HILARIOUS GRADUATION KEEPSAKE THAT GLEEFULLY EXPOSES THE NOT-ALWAYS-AWESOME REALITIES OF STARTING OUT IN THE ADULT WORLD

Congrats! Congrats!

You've made it so far.
You're an adult now,
you're even allowed
in a bar.

But long before you're
going to succeed,
You'll eff shit up,
100% guaranteed.

This ultimate graduation present is sure to bring a nervous smile to the face of any young adult about to face the wide world.

Genres: Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Young Adult, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 17, 2014

Reviews

[Nathan Schumer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m not even in my twenties and I’m scared 😂👏🏼👏🏼

[Tammie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read- September 2019

[Jenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great gift idea for someone in their 20s. Cute parody.

[Mai · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very Funny and Rhyming Parody of Dr. Seuss' classic.
This hilarious graduation keepsake exposes the not-always-awesome realities of becoming an adult in a bitingly satirical verse.

[Debo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sure, let’s be misogynistic and fatphobic and call it parody

[gab cafaro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very lighthearted, funny, and an easy read. This was a good reminder that your twenties are filled with inescapable miseries 👍

[Linda Dobbins · Rating 4 out of 5]

An amusing gift book, 'Oh, the Places...' parodies a variety of children's books, providing advice to those who've graduated college and need updated versions of those tomes of youth to apply to more adult situations.

I wish the authors could create full-length parodies of all the books they chose. That's not a criticism of the book, but a compliment.

It's so good that I want MORE!

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book in a first reads giveaway and I thought it was a really cute take on a difficult age. It is quite short like any Dr. Suess book but I think it's a great coffee table book and conversation starter. That's where I'll be keeping it assuming I don't have company that's offended by swear words!

[Katarina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super fun to look at, super fun to read, super fun to relate to.. and sob because of it. I really enjoyed this writing style, sad life's truths spoken in a humorous and clever way and silly (& amazing) illustrations by Gemma Correll accompanied them wonderfully. I see from a lot of reviews that people couldn't relate to this book.. all I can say is: you lucky bastards.

[Heidi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was super excited to get/read this book because, let's be honest, it looks like it would he hilarious. The book tried to be cute but not much better than ok.....certainly not as good as Dr. Seuss.

[Mark Will Never Cry · Rating 1 out of 5]

I should have seen it coming, seeing that the book's blurb begins by saying how hilarious it is, but all I saw was that I had a 30 page book on my tbr and I am trying to avoid doing what I am supposed to. This felt like a very boomer book, which made more sense when I saw that it was first published in 2008, but it still felt somewhat weird to read it, seeing that it does not really reflect on anyones experience, seeing how general it is. It feels like this idea would have been realised better if instead of general advice there were personal stories, but this is the way that this book came out and there is nothing to really do about it. This was disappointing, despite the low expectations, but it wasn’t terrible.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was not what I expected at all. I was expecting more like Sarah Andersons comics, where the book is more comic than words.

This was a full on poem about adult life in your twenties. Accurate, and short. It was good, but not great. I felt it would have been better if the poem was in a comic strip.

Good short read

[Malena · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was actually too real but also hilarious! I'm so glad I came across this, after just graduating college this book really hits home refs give it a read if you are a new grad or need a good laugh as your crippling under student debt and this dying job market.

[maegan · Rating 4 out of 5]

"You dream of that day
when you finally can quit
and walk out the door
telling your boss
to "EAT SHIT!""

This resonates in my soul at the moment.

A witty, funny and, sadly, accurate little book.

[Pretty Little Bibliophile · Rating 3 out of 5]

tried to be funny
but it was okay

read it on everand (scribd)
there seemed to be an issue with the formatting. some sentences were overlapping others

the reading experience could have been better

[ReadingWinx · Rating 3 out of 5]

not my kinda read. couldn't relate some things. overall an okay read. not gonna re read.

[Maja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute but can't relate

[Maree · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd be funny if it wasn't true.

[Brittany McMillan · Rating 2 out of 5]

simple, fast read. Cute take on some old-school classics. But I'm honestly not going to really look back on it fondly or potentially re-read it.

[Smriti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and quick. Found it on Scribd while I was scrolling. Unfortunately a lot of it is super true. :(

[Anaïs]

2 stars.

[Kellene · Rating 2 out of 5]

An amusing parody of the classic Seuss book... but don't share with someone prone to anxiety....

[Shawn Bird]

In contrast to more optimistic books that this parodies, this one seems to echoes my kids' experiences in their 20s. Tough economic times are discouraging, particularly in urban centres.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

A crass, but comical look at the negative parts of your 20s that Dr Seuss failed to mention to the modern reader.

[Jodi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining rhymes, even though my experience of my 20s wasn't quite like that.

[Lori Yvette Fernandez Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so real! It was so accurate that it hurt haha!

[Ingrid · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh, no recomiendo

[Laura]

😒

[Litwithlove · Rating 2 out of 5]

A not very funny short compilation of Dr.Seuss style rhymes about being a millenial/20something.
Do people even still use Craiglist?

[Wendelin Ivanova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything’s so relatable that I ended up laughing for myself 🥹🤣