Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern

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Title: Sh*it My Dad Says
Author: Justin Halpern
Genre: Essays
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 176
Date read: March, 2014

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:
"That woman was sexy.... Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them."

"The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two."

Justin weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts.

Very different from what I had expected, but I absolutely loved it. "Dad"'s no-nonsense attitude to things really appealed to me, even though I'm not sure what he would have been like to live with.

But his love and affection for his family shone out from every essay, making it a much more heart-warming essay collection than I had ever anticipated.

Loved it :)