I get that this is not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but so many of the reviews I've seen have been SO hateful. Personally, I love Cazzie David, I think she's super entertaining and relatable and I enjoyed this immensely. Hilarious and I want to hear more from her in the future.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a tough book to rate.

I'll admit some of the anecdotes in this book made me laugh out loud. David recounts her mental health experiences from childhood to her mid20s and boy are they are doozy. On the one hand I admire anyone who can write so publicly and so detailed about very personal feelings and mental health challenges. But also the read feels super self indulgent and repetitive and David is right - she's not an easy person to root for.

I also didn't realize that Cazzie is Larry David's daughter. I have no idea if that reveal comes halfway through the book intentionally or not but it definitely made me rethink the context of the first half of the book once I realized that.

I think I'm just stumped with what I was supposed to take from the book. David spends time telling us that being known and seen and interacted with are some of the worst experiences ever so she...writes a book telling us about all those things for people to know about and see and interact with? She goes from wanting a job where she works hard to not wanting to work. I think my biggest issue is David says she realizes her privilege and how exhausting she sounds but she never seems to learn anything from any of her experiences.

Is it cathartic to read about someone totally ignoring all social constructs we have as a humans? Sure. But it was also uncomfortable and confusing and tiring. Overall I wouldn't call this one of my more enjoyable reads but definitely raised some questions for me.

I was really excited to get this ARC after following Cazzie on social media and becoming acquainted with her very sarcastic and dry sense of humour. This collection of essays is no different, but gives more insight into who Cazzie is and what her life is like. I feel like I probably wasn't the target audience for this book and although I was intrigued and entertained by some of the stories, I found it hard to relate. I wouldn't dissuade others from reading this, especially those closer to the author's age as they may find it far more relatable and entertaining.

I had no idea who this author was. I knew her father. And figured I would give it a read because I love essays and short stories. This book shows her colorful life and all she has gone through and is now looking forward to. It is a page turner from beginning to end. She is truly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest and real and raw. Highly recommend. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I needed something a little lighter and enjoyable, which this book delivered. An inside look into Cazzie's anxiety and thoughts. Her list of tweets she would tweet made me laugh, her POV on the after days of her break up with Pete was surprisingly relatable. And her thoughts about throwing up, true.

I don't totally understand all the bad reactions this book is getting-- no one asked for this, but didn't we all know what we were getting? It is funny and entertaining and the break I needed right now.

I really enjoyed this book. Even taking away her parents being a celebrity and all that entails, I really enjoyed listening to her anxiety and depression. As in, I could see myself in many of her situations. She speaks about her father Larry David, being on set with him and not feeling a part of each side she was on. Her mother was very pro planet and I could see how the way she did things was based upon what she had learned as a child. There also was a a couple of chapters on her well known famous ex boyfriend, which I liked that she never named a name, but just spoke about what the breakup looked like on her end. Spoiler Alert, she had dated Pete Davidson for about two year and after breaking up for about a week, he began to date and then be engaged to Arianna Grande. I would recommend this book.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would! Very relatable with some funny moments and all the tea about her Pete Davidson breakup. 👀

Cazzie David’s claim to fame is that she is Larry David’s daughter. Larry David is worth $400m. Cazzie is a stereotypical child of privilege- she has everything she wants and complains non stop.

Granted, she’s Larry David’s daughter so I will assume that a bunch of the neuroses she describes are in fact real to the extent she describes them. But aside from that, this book of essays is one big complaint.

I’m not sure if you remember the old SNL skit “The Whiners” where everything the family said was in a whining tone. That’s what this book is.

I didn’t know whether to give it two stars or three. Truthfully I don’t know who the target market is - either young adults who may relate to some of Cazzies relationship challenges, or the huddled masses who want a glimpse into the lives of the rich and famous - or at least the lives of their kids.

Suffice to say, Cazzie’s schtick is like an immature version of her fathers. There is no point. There really isn’t a difference between the essays - it’s all just complaining.

Some of the other reviewers said she is tone deaf (I agree), that these are better as magazine articles (I agree) and that it’s annoying when kids of privilege don’t have more humility (I agree). That said, there are a few laugh out loud lines in this book. It doesn’t completely suck but I’m not interested in reading another of her books and I kinda feel sorry for her friends.

Other than that, it’s awesome.

#netgalley #nooneaskedforthis

I never like to judge a book on anything other than its own merit, but that becomes difficult when the writer has such a visible public persona. While Cazzie David isn’t necessarily a celebrity in her own right, she has a kind of adjacent fame, due to her father’s success and her relationship with Pete Davidson. David is also fairly young, which doesn’t mean her work is juvenile by default, but does give me pause. The point has been made that without her father’s fame, David would not have this book out, and I tend to agree. While No One Asked for This shows definite potential and some of the essays are worth reading, the book is sloppily cobbled together with essays of middling and low quality in addition to the more polished ones. I do think some of the essays are genuinely good and I did enjoy parts of the book. But when putting out essays they should be of uniform quality, and this ain’t it, chief.
In terms of the make up of the book, I would say 50% of the essays were totally intolerable, which automatically means I cannot recommend it in good conscience. 30% of the essays were decent, and 20% were excellent. I can only assume that David had to pad the book with some slapdash work, because her best efforts show a decent writer. It’s just disappointing to read something good, and then immediately be hit in the face with the written equivalent of a leaky garbage bag.
I am probably the closest thing to an ideal reader for this book: I am a mentally ill, Ashkenazi Jewish woman in her mid-twenties who enjoys comedy. That being said, I found some of David’s writing impossible to stomach and way more self-involved than self-exploratory. She exposes a lot of vulnerability, but without any artistic merit, it is completely superfluous and soulless. If you’re going to get deep, you have to draw something out of it, and it felt more like she was like, “Look! Look at my thorny pain!” Which is fine, but not especially interesting. I did find her anxiety relatable, but at some point an essay needs to be about more than just your feelings of dread. I also felt a little weird about her insistence that she didn’t want to take medication for her mental health, which was repeated throughout the book. Why? Medication is pretty great. She described herself as someone bowing under the weight of anxiety and depression in an alternating manner, which sounds pretty terrible when the alternative is going to the doctor and possibly some side effects.
The best essays in the book are “Mean Sister,” “Tweets I Would Tweet If I Weren’t Morally Opposed to Twitter: I,” “I Got a Cat for My Anxiety,” “Moving Out,” and “Erase Me.” The rest are either outright bad or mostly forgettable, so I would advise just checking the book out of a library and reading these ones. I did enjoy reading David’s depiction of her family, which seems about as eccentric as you’d expect. Her obligatory Pete Davidson essay was actually quite impressive- being the ex of a person who suddenly becomes Very Famous for dating someone Ridiculously Famous is a rare experience. I think it comes across that Davidson was deeply mentally ill, as was David. I don’t agree that it’s an unflattering depiction of Davidson or his ex-fiancé, pop star Ariana Grande. Frankly, given how David was treated by the media and Grande’s army of child fans, the way she writes about them is fair. Leaving an emotionally exhausting and unsteady relationship is a fair thing to do, and I think becoming more Famous by Relation than David was used to effected her a lot. Being a famous person’s kid is very different than being the ex-girlfriend of the fiancé of one of the most famous people in the world. Overall, I thought it was fine.
While I wasn’t overly impressed by No One Asked for This, I will keep an eye out for further writings by David. I think her work shows a lot of potential and I’m interested to see what is next for her.

Look, I've said this time and time again, but you can be a funny, smart, interesting person with some clever things to say and still not be a good writer and should not attempt to write book. Of any kind. No One Asked for This: Essays is an example of that fact.

There is no other way to put this, but if Cazzie David wasn't Larry David's daughter, this collection of essays wouldn't have made it past a series of blog entries. They feel like they were written in the dead of night while mainlining Cheetos and while stoned, and have not been edited or touched since.

Most of the writing is incredibly tone-deaf. If you are going to write essays that frequently reference nannies; flying places on a whim; not being pretty when you are, without a doubt, pretty; your dad being so rich that he gets injected with stem cells, just because he thinks it boosts his immune system(!?!); and living with your parents with their full financial support, you better recognize and discuss that glaring privilege. I had secondhand embarrassment reading essays about fighting with your sister about clubbing! and being too full for sex. Also, please don't *ever* write that you wish their was a "third gender for non-idiots" because that is your identity. That was a bad one.

I do not doubt that Cazzie has serious mental health issues and a severe anxiety disorder, but, yet again, that doesn't make her a good writer. This poorly conceived and even more poorly edited collection of essays demonstrate that very clearly.

*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*

No One Asked for This, indeed.

This is so navel gazing that it goes through the bellybutton and out the back. It's tone deaf, self centered and reeks of privilege. Celebrity boyfriends, safaris to Africa, working on a set....because your father gave you the job.

I sure Cazzie is aware of how self-centered this entire collection in. I'm sure she's talked about it therapy. Sometimes - those thoughts and the depressed ramblings that would be better suited for LiveJournal in 2001 should have stayed inside.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this "book".

Funny and whipsmart, Cazzie David has written a solid collection of essays for the neurotic millennial. And yes, she discusses the P*te D*vidson of it all in case you were worried. Definitely looking forward to more from her in the future.

I picked up this book because I, too, am an anxious, awkward freak. Cazzie's book definitely delivers on this aspect as she tries to convey how pretty much anything can lead to an anxiety spiral for her and how no one can really understand because the pain is invisible. I experienced pretty much the exact same incident she describes that happened with the "burn" guy in the cab so I could totally relate to how the littlest thing can quickly turn into something so awkward that you can never see that person again.

However, this just wasn't a cohesive book, and really needed some editing to home in on the humor and condense the stories. I found myself skimming and wondering WTF I was reading for a large part of this.
A lot of the book just wasn't funny, and some parts veered into being really scary and sad. I just want to tell her that it's okay to be in pain and you don't have to try to make everything funny.

I'm really not sure I would recommend this book to anyone but I appreciate any work that speaks candidly about mental health struggles.

I saw that Twitter was dunking on Cazzie David’s memoir, NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS, for being cringey and tone deaf. So naturally I got a copy of the book, out on Tuesday, and stayed up last night reading it. And while it’s not great—google her essay “Too Full to Fuck” in The Cut—it’s not all bad.

Sure, she could use a better editor. David can be wordy and heavy-handed, and falls into a lot of the pitfalls that English 101 professors everywhere warn of: close repetition, inhuman dialogue, too wordy and explanatory (A lot of “One example is” and “Such as.”) I could ignore all of that if she weren’t so obsessive in cultivating her weird-anxious-girl personality, in a voice that’s hard to find sympathetic.

“I’m the anti-wedding date,” she writes in an essay reminiscent of Riverdale’s Jughead Jones. “I refuse to dance to most music but wedding-DJ music is at the top of this, and nothing would make me laugh because everyone would be either annoying me or making me feel stupid (it’s always one or the other).”

But when you get to the meat of an essay, when she allows the tough-guy language to fall away, David is funny! “If clubbing were a team sport, I was stuck with a collection of every captain’s last picks,” she writes in an essay about her sister third-wheeling. And in another one about her bummer persona, “When I enter a room, people feel like a negative spirit is lingering, but then they see it’s me and they’re like, ‘Oh, thank God, it’s just Cazzie.’ I’m pretty sure people sage their homes after I leave.”

I most enjoyed No One Asked For This when David was able to describe the nitty gritty absurdity of L.A. social life, or dig into social media and Internet culture. There, she clearly has expertise and interest, and so writes with more authority than elsewhere in the debut.

“Is it possible to keep track of your own opinions when someone writes something and then someone writes something about what that person just wrote and then people write things based on that thing and it ends with everyone collectively agreeing on Twitter what is right and wrong?” she writes. “No, because the Internet is a shithole and nothing makes sense.” A timely sentiment for how the Internet has received her book.

Read my recap of the drama and review of NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS at Book & Film Globe: https://bookandfilmglobe.com/nonfiction/cazzie-david/

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the review copy.

Cazzie is Larry's daughter when it comes to humor, as this book is full of self-depreciating humor. I enjoyed the open and down to earth writing. I hope that Cazzie writes more in the future, as this book was a great read.

Cazzie David (aka Larry David's daughter) has written a book of essays which address her lifelong anxiety disorder, low self-esteem, her experience of living the privileged life of a celebrity's daughter. Also- health woes, friends, boyfriends, and her various chronic fears.

Some of the essays are more engaging and authentic than others. The essay which takes on the preposterous way in which we have allowed the internet and smartphones to hijack our thinking and relationships was most astute.

She also details her breakup and subsequent grieving of her long term relationship with a boyfriend who immediately begins a new, very public relationship with a celebrity, during a family safari in Africa.

Humor and sarcasm, self-loathing and betrayal, adoration of her father and tumultuous relationships with her mother and sister make up the gist of the tone of these essays.

As a long-time Larry David fan, I was thrilled to see Cazzie David wrote a book. The same humor runs in the family for sure. I adored her writing, and devoured this book in a few days. It's fun, dark, exciting, and I loved her voice throughout it all.

You would think the daughter of Larry David might be a little spoiled or entitled, and as a matter of fact, she will tell you she is, however, she is downright funny. The way she talks about her life (self deprecating) endears her to the reader. I'm in my 50's, however, I have younger children and so often saw so much of them in the situations she described.
Real Honest. Real Funny.

Cassie David has written an open honest raw look at her angst full life.A child of privilege Larry David’s daughter who sweetly she adores writes hilarious at time sad essays about coping with life,She shares her emotional problems her daily life issues.You will laugh out loud be surprised at some of her behavior empathize when she suddenly gets dumped by her boyfriend for a singer a mega star,Really well written entertaining ba you g woman with loads of talent,#netgalley#hmh