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Loading... Jeff, One Lonely Guyby Jeff Ragsdale, Michael Logan, David Shields
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting social experiment where one guy posts his cell phone number and chronicles the responses. Amazing how many responses he receives, and some of the responses (and his own revelations) can be quite disturbing. ( ) It's shocking to me that this ever got published. It has a great premise: guy puts up a poster offering to talk to anyone about anything. With that said it's simply page after page of snippets from conversations, which may have been interesting except that without context it make almost no sense. There were repeat calls from a few girls who clearly need help; anorexics, those who are suicidal, and of course - sex addicts. Again, if there had been context it might have been an interesting look at tthe lives of the lonely. no reviews | add a review
In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he'd get a dozen calls; instead he got hundreds, and then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. The calls came from all over the country and from as far away as Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Taiwan, and Australia. Jeff spoke to as many people as he could, answering his phone all day long. Here are the conversations, texts, and voicemails of a particular moment in time - a hilarious, dark, intimate portrait of the way we live now."OMG I love this It's so Russian - very reminiscent of the Chekhov story 'Complaint Book' (entries in a complaint book at the railway station)." - Elif Batuman, Author of The Possessed"With Reality Hunger, David Shields offered us a manifest, yet unlike most manifestoes, Reality Hunger actually changed the world. Here, by teaming up with Ragsdale and Logan, Shields has now embodied his ethos - we have crossed over the threshold and are now strangely, terrifyingly, beautifully - in this transformed world." - Nick Flynn, Author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City No library descriptions found. |
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