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Title: The Roommates: True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters
Ed.:Stephanie Wu
Genre: Novelty
Thingummies: 3
Synopsis: Collection of stories about memorable roommates.
Thoughts: I say right off that the reason I have this book is because my husband is featured in one of the stories. He didn't get paid for it, but I think he may have gotten some appetizers out of the deal.
This is the kind of book that no one buys for themselves. It's what you buy your nephew when he leaves for college because you don't know what to give him and cash seems crash (despite the fact he's probably rather have the cash.) But it fulfills its own aims well. It's moderately entertaining, and probably has enough cautionary tales that the alert young adult reader might think to check for key attributes when they try to find their own roommates. Some are sweet. (I particularly liked the one with the newborn baby, which was rather cute.) Others are about as horrifying as you might imagine--peeping Toms, drug addicts, crazy people of every kind.
And as gifts go, it certainly beats Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Ed.:Stephanie Wu
Genre: Novelty
Thingummies: 3
Synopsis: Collection of stories about memorable roommates.
Thoughts: I say right off that the reason I have this book is because my husband is featured in one of the stories. He didn't get paid for it, but I think he may have gotten some appetizers out of the deal.
This is the kind of book that no one buys for themselves. It's what you buy your nephew when he leaves for college because you don't know what to give him and cash seems crash (despite the fact he's probably rather have the cash.) But it fulfills its own aims well. It's moderately entertaining, and probably has enough cautionary tales that the alert young adult reader might think to check for key attributes when they try to find their own roommates. Some are sweet. (I particularly liked the one with the newborn baby, which was rather cute.) Others are about as horrifying as you might imagine--peeping Toms, drug addicts, crazy people of every kind.
And as gifts go, it certainly beats Chicken Soup for the Soul.
