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  <default_description>&lt;I&gt;You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again &lt;/I&gt;meets &lt;I&gt;The Bonfire of the Vanities&lt;/I&gt;, as told by...a male Bridget Jones? And it all really happened. In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at &lt;I&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/I&gt;. Other Brits had taken Manhattan--Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour--so why couldn't he? &lt;P&gt;But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from &lt;I&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/I&gt;, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him. &lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;How to Lose Friends and Alienate People&lt;/I&gt; is Toby Young's hilarious and best-selling account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. A seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast, &lt;I&gt;How to Lose Friends and Alienate People &lt;/I&gt;is also a &quot;nastily funny read.&quot; (&lt;I&gt;USA Today&lt;/I&gt;)</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toby Young is both a complete and utter comic genius, and a 100% hapless boob.  Young, a British journalist is infatuated with American celebrity.  He gets a gig working for Vanity Fair in New York only to find, much to his dismay, that it's all about style, and not so much substance in the high-rol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7425251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toby Young is an Englishman, a journalist who is intent on making a success of himself in the US, namely New York City. He fails miserably. Not because of his character, but because of the gulf in the culture. Despite appearing to be a fool, Toby is well-educated and explains what and why things wen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15049646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why did I find Toby Young such an annoying twerp.  I very nearly didn't finish this book, a very rare occurrence. His obsession with celebrity, parties and tottie just made me cringe but his analysis of the cultural differences between New York and London was very incisive and that is what kept me r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40441776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was sort of a break from the ordinary for me.  I normally read plot-driven novels -- Louis L'Amour, Dan Brown, and a whole host of science-fiction and fantasy.  I picked this one up on a whim, mostly because they cast Simon Pegg to play the lead role in the movie based on it.  I was about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46632389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was smart and funny.  The inside Vanity Fair stuff is great.  The last third of the book falls apart.   There was too much of his “oh what a loser I am schtick.”  I'm glad he found love but the girl comes across as a snobby twit.  The first third was a great take on celebrity culture and Ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61005184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toby Young is basically the Benny Hill of  journalism and this snapshot of his five-year run in New York is hilarious. The memoir covers the British journalist's attempt to &quot;take Manhattan by storm&quot; and is just brimming with over-the-top, slapstick, Three Stooges-type behavior on his part....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32540288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the funniest books I have ever read.  Toby Young is hilarious in his memoir which details his inabilities to conform to the roles and responsibilities at the prestigious Vanity Fair.  Almost everything he does is wrong, yet he manages to stay afloat for an impressive amount of time.  Imagine ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2847135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A decent, quick read that becomes less satisfying as you realise how awful a person the author actually is.  His moralistic crusading against the journalistic compromises of the staff of Vanity Fair become a little much when the evidence of his own loathsome behaviour expands beyond the definition o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66137833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books. I have almost nothing in common with him, but I could relate--being on the outside and pursuing dreams, wondering how people have been able to succeed in superficial environments. He also offers some interesting commentary on American society. Love this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book? Don't believe the hype. This was one of the shittest books I've ever read. Toby Young has no conception as to why he can't get a shag and why no-one laughs at his jokes. Want to find out why Toby? Read your own retarded humour-vacuum of a book. <br/><br/> ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're fascinated by the media culture in New York, you'd probably like this book. It was all about Toby's wild ride as a &quot;writer&quot; for Vanity Fair. I put it in quotes because he says he got paid $60,000 for about 3000 words, making him the highest paid writer (per word) in the history o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44228861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me quite a while to get properly into the book. It wasn't until near the end, that the book actually became good and surprisingly touching.<br/><br/>The film is very, very loosely based around the plot of the book, (I can't stress that enough!) so if you're reading the book after the film,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49643562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book = Brit humor meets Sex and the City.  Really.  It's the true tale of Toby Young trying to make it as a writer in the Big Apple, and in the meantime craves models, hits the hottest bars and restaurants, befriends &quot;Carrie Bradshaw&quot; herself, and enlightens the everyday man about wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50143956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[british hack dreams of big time in nyc gits his chance by way of vanity fair amazingly squanders it and all subsequent opportunities<br/><br/>a charming tale of what happens to someone who everyone knows has the talent, but can't scheme the etiquette. this is the type of rouge i would hazard to sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57260113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong><u>How to Alienate Readers, Too</u></strong><br/><br/>I bought this book because the title caught my eye, and the quotes on the cover were divine:<p><br/><p>&quot;I'll rot in hell before I give that little bastard a quote for his book&quot;<p> - <em>Julie Birchill</em><p><br/>However, having read this all the way through - I agree ...</p></p></p></p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64753332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hysterical book.  I don't usually like comic literature a la David Sederis, however I loved this book.  Toby Young tells the true story of his failed time as a writer at Vanity Fair.  It is great fun to read him throw stones at the artistic and media elite, ie Mr Carter.  I have to say  though, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53418602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oooh, I should not be giving this book as many stars as I am. It's literary trash, a gossipy rag, Vanity Fair without the pictures... and I loved it. <br/><br/>&quot;How to Lose&quot; is about failure, which automatically makes it funny to read, so long as it isn't about you. In this true-ish memo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28939403">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Así se presentaba el libro: una crónica satírica desde el <em>backstage</em> del mundo de los más famosos y adorados, escrita por un periodista británico que trabajó durante tres años para la muy glamurosa (y casi centenaria) revista <em>Vanity Fair</em>. ¿Suena bien, verdad?<br/><br/>Pues para empezar, no ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25120627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['you'll never eat lunch in this town again' meets 'bonfire of the vanities', but first the sort of trivia i love:  englishman toby young (now festooned with children and with a killer column in the UK Spectator) enjoyed telling his new york pals that the word 'meritocracy' had been coined as a damna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21563782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the reviews for this book describes it as 'funny,clever and touching&quot;. Personally I wouldn`t apply &quot;funny&quot; and &quot;touching&quot;. It needs a certain kind of masochism to write about your own failure unless you have a very good sense of humour to write a very funny book. To m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19396860">more...</a>]]></body>
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