
How to Murder Your Life
A Memoir
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Cat Marnell
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By:
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Cat Marnell
From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.
At 26 Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America - and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a "doctor shopper" who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything - anything - to sleep.
This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and, yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school - and with a prescription for attention deficit disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve.
From the Conde Nast building (where she rides the elevator alongside Anna Wintour) to seedy nightclubs, from doctors' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell shows - like no one else can - what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can't say no.
Combining lightning-rod subject matter and bold literary aspirations, How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.
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The story itself held my attention. Unfortunately, the author who narrates the book herself, has a tendency to sound whiny and hysterical at emotional scenes. She also keeps inserting "sound effects" throughout the book, most notably, far too many fake screams. If this were less frequent, it wouldn't be a problem, but it's throughout the book. If it looks interesting to you, I would consider reading it instead of listening to it.Story holds attention but narration distracting
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Ahhhhhhh!!! VERY entertaining
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Where does How to Murder Your Life rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Wonderful narration, Cat Marnell is fascinating and enchanting to listen to.What other book might you compare How to Murder Your Life to and why?
More, Now Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel.What about Cat Marnell’s performance did you like?
Her storytelling abilites and it was like listening to a best friend tell a story.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes! Yes!One of my favorite addiction memoirs
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If not for the screams.
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Too much screaming!
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1 year later, im still trying to find its match.
Yes
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Loved it!
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I could understand how someone without an understanding of drug use wouldn't relate.
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Fascinating and Honest
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