false<![CDATA[Overqualified]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965969m/6226041.jpg62260412Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.
And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter, something entirely different comes out.
You start threatening instead of begging. You tell impolite jokes. You talk about your childhood and your sexual fantasies. You sign your real name and you put yourself honestly into letter after letter and there is no way you are ever going to get this job. Not with a letter like this.
And you send it anyway.6408598462009Overqualifiedtotal:83|5:23|4:28|3:20|2:11|1:1|833104522650falsefalseFri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Mar 14 06:42:24 -0700 2009Sat Mar 14 06:56:44 -0700 2009
Overqualified by Joey Comeau is not so much a book as it is an experience. Or rather, it is a set of experiences, both his and your own. Through the artful cover letters that constitute your glimpse into Joey's life, you see back into your own. Your experiences. As I sat and read this book in an aba...more...]]>
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before I physically got up to drink coffee. Reading before coffee! It's possible to do that, you know. I wouldn't have believed it before today. I am now l...more...]]>
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true, so accurate, so revelatory of the human experience, then you're living under so many layers of safe, cozy denial that it's...more...]]>
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It starts on page 7.
There are 12 completely blank pages in this book.
I am very happy I did not buy this book.
There are a few chuckles and a few good spots but overall stick with his web comic A Softer World, it's much better.]]>
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