The Big Rewind : A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture (Hardcover)

from coolmama

I wanted to love it.....I did at first, but I found his manic storytelling abilities a little too over the top for me. That said, Nathan has had a sad life - and he starting writing this when he was only 31! Abandoned by his mother, sent to a foster and then a group home as his fathers MS and une...

from coolmama

I wanted to love it.....I did at first, but I found his manic storytelling abilities a little too over the top for me. That said, Nathan has had a sad life - and he starting writing this when he was only 31! Abandoned by his mother, sent to a foster and then a group home as his fathers MS and une...

from double.entendrea

This really earnestly wants to be a much more solid memoir. There are many, many wonderful things about this memoir's tone and lightheartedly honest treatment of some very heavy life experiences, and the author is very funny, engaging, and sincere. Rabin's voice is an extremely endearing one, and...

from saramllr

As a fan of "The Onion" I really wanted to like this, but I just didn't. Rabin's memoir tries to be oddball and strange like Augusten Burrough's "Running with Scissors" but instead it just felt disjointed and sad. Most of the pop culture references to songs and movies were pretty obscure and as a...

from markfinl

I really had high hopes for this book since the author writes for the Onion AV Club, a website that I read nearly every day. Unfortunately, this memoir is poorly written and unfocused. The first half of the book is the story of Nathan's childhood, a large portion of which was spent in group homes...