This was right up my alley. There were so many heartbreakingly funny moments in this. I thought it was well written and the style was perfect. I really enjoyed these essays.

Ooh time goes by and if i don't write the review right away...sigh. I'm trying to be better. The best i can do right now is give a star count...

Cazzie David, the child of a celebrity, writes about her life and struggles in a book of essays. On the contrary to many other people, I didn't pick up this book because her father is a celebrity. Indeed, it is not easy to grow up in this century, even more in Hollywood, or to go through a humiliating experience (such as a public break-up). Her stories are real and she is funny.

Okay, let me be fully honest that I wanted to read this because of who her father is. I LOVE Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David, so I was hoping that the comedic apple didn't fall far from the tree with his daughter, Cazzie. After reading this, I think you can definitely say that it did not. It just fell a little further than anticipated. I thought Cazzie's book was pithy, brazen and, at times, humorous. She's not afraid to open up about her anxiety or to lean into the darkest parts of her.

With that said, I didn't really know how to rate it. I think Cazzie is an acquired taste and, for those who get her dry humor, they'd love her. At times, I found her quite unlikable and whiny. While I was excited to read about her family, I still prefer Larry David over Cazzie David and I fully acknowledge that this book probably wouldn't have been published if she weren't his daughter. Would I read this again or commend it? Honestly? Probably not.

Thank you to Net Galley for the ARC!

Really wanted to like this, but I have to say I found her voice to be immature and too insular. However, I'd love to read something from her 20 years from now when she's actually lived a life, because I'd love to see how she has evolved as a person.

I really wanted to like this more than I did - some chapters were great, but most of them sounded like a spoiled rich kid. I really like Cazzie, but some of the essays just made her come off as so unlikeable.

Like many other reviewers, I requested this book on the basis of being a big fan of Larry David, Cazzie's father. This collection of essays ended up being a bit more hit or miss than I was hoping for initially, but there were a few gems here that got me laughing. My advice would be to take it in bite size chunks instead of reading it all at once.

**Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books and Netgalley for the ARC**

This book was exhausting.

Maybe this book just isn't meant for me. At 38 I am past my quarter life crisis and have plenty of average, real world experience. I really wanted to like this book, but David has nothing to write about except how miserable she is over every day things that you and I don't think about. She doesn't work, doesn't pay for anything, and stays home all day smoking weed and judging everyone and everything. She is joyless. David acknowledges her privilege throughout, but she still comes off as an entitled, spoiler brat and I don't have any empathy or sympathy for her (she writes about her horse that passed away from old age). I have other thoughts too, but I am not going to speculate on her personal life, but man, based on this book I don't know how anyone can even be around her.

Two stars are for some humorous moments (mostly recounting interactions with her dad, Larry David). Chin up, Cazzie.

This book was a solid read for me this week: super busy with work but loved reading Cazzie's essays during my breakfast, lunch and dinner. She is pretty funny (I underlined all my favourite lines), and although she definitely comes across as privileged and pretentious she acknowledges it and owns it. I wasn't too bothered by it because she was so self aware about it.

I didn't think the writing was spectacular, but found her relatable and funny. I would read another book by her.

honestly it was so bland I couldn't even make it past the first few chapters. This feels like a parody of book but I know it's not, in some cases celebrities should just hire ghostwriters.

Many reviews are not kind to this collection of essays by Cazzie David but I am going to go right out there and say I loved it. I thought she was funny, clever, and self-deprecating. You can definitely tell she is Larry David’s daughter.

Not too long ago I was a 20-something sarcastic misanthropic woman, and now I am just older and the same. I guess it helped that I saw myself in a few of her essays, I went through a breakup where everything he did felt like a slight against me and that I would never be okay again (Reader, I ended up being just fine), and I have anxiety about similar things. I also appreciated Cazzie talking about her relationship with her sister as my sister and I are also close in age and I can recount having the same arguments and having the same drama with my sister. Her love for her family shines through, even when they are annoying her.

Cazzie David knows who she and is the type of person that you either get or you don’t. She’s either your cup of tea or not. And that’s okay. She’s well aware that no one asked for this book anyway.

I have to admit, I wasn't sure what to except when picking this book up. I am a fan of Cazzie's Dad. I didn't really know anything about Cazzie besides that she dated Pete Davidson. I thought why not get to know one of Larry David's daughters. I'm so bummed to say this but I really just couldn't get into it. I did end up picking this up on audiobook after it came out. I always like listening to autobiographies. I feel bad saying this but this book just made me so sad. I'm already not in a completely good head space because of everything going on right now. This book really didn't help at all. I feel really bad saying this because this is a collection of essays about someone's life. A part of me wanted to push through but I can't. Right now I just don't feel comfortable reading this. I am so bummed about this especially since I was given a review copy for my honest opinion. I am sorry.

I enjoyed Cazzie's pithy takes on being anxious and depressed living a bubble. It's navel gazey and a little dramatic in a sweet way.

I consider this to be a great nonfiction book for anyone who loves authors like Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney. It's dark, it's gritty, and it feels like the start of something bigger. I did find it to be a little less well rounded and polished than I'd hoped for, but Cazzie is still quite young and I think there's a lot of raw talent there that will continue to build. I'd recommend this book to anyone who considers themselves a fan of the MTV show, Daria.

This is quite possibly the worst book that I have ever had the pleasure of reviewing . The entire book felt like a long winded ramble from a whiny, self deprecating, unpleasant teenager!
Pages upon pages of picking herself apart with touches of sarcastic remarks that ultimately fell flat. She tried too hard to be likeable . As if by throwing herself on the gauntlet & dissecting each and every flaw she has, the reader will forgive her for her privileged life.

I only finished this book because I had a review to write. I was bored to tears, rolled my eyes on almost every page & got lost in the never ending rambling.

Cazzie's writing has a lot of potential. Each essay has a few solid lines. But just when she could dig in and actually get somewhere, she stars ranting and talking crap about herself. The best example is where she talks about how seeing an ex with a new girlfriend makes a woman re-evaluate her entire self. That was interesting and well written, it had me thinking. Then she just went and made it all about how worthless she is and I rolled my eyes and started skimming. Sure the self-deprecation is funny at first but it's clear she's using it to avoid really digging into her thoughts and behaviors. Each essay could easily be half its length, they read more like rambling blog posts than personal essays. Perhaps I am no the target audience for this book? Regardless, I don't recommend it.

Cazzie is right, no one did ask for this. As she said in her intro she is very young and has done nothing interesting in her life. The book reads like the diary of a child and I really think she has a lot of issues with food and eating she needs to explore.

Really enjoyed this memoir, as I am a big Larry David fan. Cazzie didn't come onto my radar until the Ariana/Pete news broke, so I thoroughly enjoyed that chapter. It made me realize that my own personal anxiety isn't all that bad! However, there is something that is missing that I can't exactly put my finger on. A shame, this had potential.

About a month ago I read an interview with Cazzie David about her breakup with Pete Davidson. I could not for a million dollars tell you why I clicked on that article, having no emotional investment in either of these people, but here we are. I was struck by two things: how resonant I found the way Cazzie talks about anxiety, and the fact that she's open about having emetophobia, something I've struggled with since the age of eight. So that alone was enough to pique my curiosity about this essay collection.

The thing about this book is that you need to accept what it's trying to do and read it in good faith. Would this have been published if Cazzie weren't Larry David's daughter, of course not, but is she trying to join the ranks of great modern essayists like Jia Tolentino? Not in the slightest. These essays are self-indulgent, tone deaf, and solipsistic, but if you dwell on any of these things I promise you are taking this collection much more seriously than Cazzie is.

So let’s focus on the good, because I unabashedly loved this book. Cazzie’s writing won’t win any literary awards but she’s surprisingly incisive, especially when it comes to talking about anxiety and her fear of mortality. Another thing is, the more neurotypical you are, the less this book is going to resonate with you (not that you're necessarily neurotypical if you didn't like it). Cazzie makes absolutely no effort to be likable; she paints a portrait of what it's like to be fully in thrall of anxiety and the insidious ways it tears you apart from the inside out, affecting both your self-worth and your relationships. She makes comments like this, that are on one level dismissive and alienating (yes, some people simply "get really bad anxiety" and it's still a bitch for them to live with), and on another level were like looking into a mirror:

"I never understood social media posts advising people that "it's okay to not feel good all the time!" Who said that wasn't okay? Who is so okay to the point where they need to be reminded that it's okay when they don't feel okay?! When people "reveal" they "get really bad anxiety," I'm dumbfounded, because I've never not been anxious long enough to "get" anxiety. It doesn't leave. Not ever."

She’s also funny as hell. You’ll either get her humor or you won’t, and you’ll know by the end of the first essay which side you're on. But--surprisingly, for the fact that you're spending 300+ pages inside the head of an extremely unhappy person--this collection is fun. It's self-deprecating, it's clever, and above all else, it's an entertaining way to spend an afternoon.

This isn't for everyone (clearly), but I just really 'got' this book; I got what Cazzie was trying to do with it and I also got Cazzie as a person, and it made me feel slightly less alone in the world whenever I picked it up. At the end of the day, that's all you can ask from a book like this.

Thank you to Mariner Books and Netgalley for the advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review.

— thanks #NetGalley and the publisher Mariner Books for providing me with an e-ARC of #NoOneAskedforThis in exchange for an honest review.

actual rating: 0 stars.

help. my brain hurts from reading this book and not in a good way. the amount of times i rolled my eyes before i just accepted how bad it was is laughable.

this book was almost comically bad.

this is a book about a rich white het girl complaining that she’s a rich white het girl. i found not one funny—or serious, for that matter—take in this agonizing number of essays. i just have no other words to say except this was really bad. if the content abd the stories itself weren’t bad then the writing definitely was. not everyone can write a book and i don’t understand how this passed through editing and was given the ok to publish. this is not me trying to be mean, this is me seeing a lot of problematic takes in this book and appalled by how many edits overlooked it for it to be here for me to read. unfortunately.

tl;dr — i did not like this. basically a waste of pages.