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Review: Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

DNF because I had to return it to my library, but I ain't even mad.

This seemed like it was finally going to be a book written by a comedian that is actually funny—and it WAS... In the beginning—but it started to feel like accidentally walking into a feminist rally. It was non-stop preaching about "you have to do this or else you're a bad person!!", and it's like oh my god shut up. Nothing against feminism, but damn did this chick become annoying as hell. I'm sure it was probably/maybe/possibly just that essay I was on, but honestly it was such a buzzkill that it completely shattered any and all motivation I had to continue listening to this before its return date.

a dog waving and saying bye

Also I'm shocked that I haven't seen anyone talk about the writing style, because it is... Definitely something. She literally writes her essays in the same shorthand way one would write a tweet on twitter: full of slang and abbreviations and made-up shit. Doing this on twitter makes sense because of the character restriction and its casual setting, but reading it in a book—in an essay—felt a little weird to me, and gave me erges to shake my head and sigh, "gosh darn millennials," even though I am literally in a younger generation than them. So if you're a millennial you probably won't mind the writing style—might even like it—but if you're older I feel like you'll definitely hate it. As for youngins, like myself (shoutout to Gen Z), it's up in the air. Depends on how much you feed into the millennial narrative, I guess.

On a more positive note, the following is Phoebe's description of free bleeding on one's period, and I paraphrase:
"The world was my canvas, and my vagina was Jackson Pollock."
This is probably the funniest joke I've ever heard. I laughed so hard after I heard it, and I continued to laugh every time I remembered it for at least two days. I think the reason this was so funny to me was because I keep hearing Jackson Pollock's name recently (which is the only reason I know his name and work), and so this joke felt like what it was all building up to.

Wow I wrote a more comprehensive review on a book I didn't even read than on the past few books I did read (in that I didn't even write reviews for them yet). I need to be stopped.
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