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Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear (2018)

door Carl Hiaasen, Roz Chast (Illustrator)

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This is Oh, the Places You'll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate's future. And what he or she can or can't do about it. "This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a warning."      So begins Carl Hiaasen's attempt to prepare young men and women for their future. And who better to warn them about their precarious paths forward than Carl Hiaasen? The answer, after reading Assume the Worst, is: Nobody.      And who better to illustrate--and with those illustrations, expand upon and cement Hiaasen's cynical point of view--than Roz Chast, best-selling author/illustrator and National Book Award winner? The answer again is easy: Nobody.      Following the format of Anna Quindlen's commencement address (Being Perfect) and George Saunders's commencement address (Congratulations, by the way), the collaboration of Hiaasen and Chast might look typical from the outside, but inside it is anything but.      This book is bound to be a classic, sold year after year come graduation time. Although it's also a good gift for anyone starting a job, getting married, or recently released from prison. Because it is not just funny. It is, in its own Hiaasen way, extremely wise and even hopeful. Well, it might not be full of hope, but there are certainly enough slivers of the stuff in there to more than keep us all going.… (meer)
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Once you get past the shocking number of swears on the first two pages, it was quite funny for the most part. There were a few things I didn’t like. ( )
  libraryofemma | Apr 18, 2024 |
This very short book is written with tongue in cheek, as a college commencement speech might sound if it were realistic, rather than idealistic. I picked this up for a reading challenge book because I needed a book under 100 pages long, and those are hard to find. This one is only 64 pages long...with pictures! The illustrations are by the hilarious New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast were actually the best part of the book for me, which was a tad too cynical for my taste. To be fair, it was written in 2018 when Donald Trump was in office, so liberals were all feeling pretty cynical, then. ( )
  baystateRA | Jan 20, 2023 |
Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear by Carl Hiaasen
I understand this is a book written under the satire genre but I really don't get why it'd even be written at all, there's nothing good about the future the way the speech is written.
Glad it's never been given to a graduating class. they need all the encouragement they can get, in my opinion.
This is another book by this author I just couldn't get into. I like to read a book that I can learn something new.
Read for OK book club for june 2022. ( )
  jbarr5 | Jun 9, 2022 |
I listened to the audio via my library app. Unfortunately, my library's app does not have the capability to show me the drawings in addition to the audio so I feel like I missed out on that. Oh well. I enjoyed this even though it was a downer. But Hiaasen is generally funny yet very sarcastic and negative. ( )
  Tosta | Jul 5, 2021 |
It's a rather cynical little offering but there are parts of it that are oh so very true. Some of it will bring a chuckle or so and you'll think..."Yeah, I know someone just like that". As the author points out..."assuming the worst is the best and most promising course. it will keep the despair and disillusionment at bay. When faced with a steaming pile of manure, the optimist will say, there has to be a pony in there somewhere." ( )
  Carol420 | Dec 14, 2019 |
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Carl Hiaasenprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Chast, RozIllustratorprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Andersen, Peter A.OntwerperSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Franzen, BillAuthor photographerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Hiassen, QuinnAuthor photographerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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This is Oh, the Places You'll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate's future. And what he or she can or can't do about it. "This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a warning."      So begins Carl Hiaasen's attempt to prepare young men and women for their future. And who better to warn them about their precarious paths forward than Carl Hiaasen? The answer, after reading Assume the Worst, is: Nobody.      And who better to illustrate--and with those illustrations, expand upon and cement Hiaasen's cynical point of view--than Roz Chast, best-selling author/illustrator and National Book Award winner? The answer again is easy: Nobody.      Following the format of Anna Quindlen's commencement address (Being Perfect) and George Saunders's commencement address (Congratulations, by the way), the collaboration of Hiaasen and Chast might look typical from the outside, but inside it is anything but.      This book is bound to be a classic, sold year after year come graduation time. Although it's also a good gift for anyone starting a job, getting married, or recently released from prison. Because it is not just funny. It is, in its own Hiaasen way, extremely wise and even hopeful. Well, it might not be full of hope, but there are certainly enough slivers of the stuff in there to more than keep us all going.

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