I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated

If you've dated losers, you'll definitely relate. Perhaps more than you would like to. And if you don't, you'll be like THANK GOD!!! Or whomever it is atheists thank if you're an atheist.I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and honest, which isn't always an easy combo. Having said that Julie really does date a butt load of losers, which somewhat makes you question her sanity. I certainly did. I wanted to scream STOP DATING THESE TURDS! But if you were an SATC fan or you've ever lived in NYC you may appreciate this parade of lunacy. Plus if you have schadenfreude tendencies (like myself sometimes) it will fill that little black heart of yours.

This was one that I had heard good things about a few years back, came upon a copy while I was used-book shopping so I thought I would finally try it out. I tend to love "what I learned from my disasterous dating life" kind of books -- and I love the snarky title! -- so I thought this was bound to be a good time. It started out alright, some mildly funny bits at first, but maybe her comedic style is the kind I can only take in small doses. It seemed like a few chapters in her stories were starting to sound repetitive and wore a little thin on me after awhile.

I thought this was a thoroughly entertaining book. It was witty, honest, and hopefully cathartic for the author. I know it made me feel good, as a lesbian, in a schadenfreudish kind of way, because most of the guys in the book were jerks with a capital WTF! Although slap a nose ring and a tongue piercing on Allistair, and Klausner could have been describing one of my hippie ex-girlfriends.I noticed several one or two-star reviews of this book which said things like, "Julie Klausner dates a lot of losers." To those people I want to point out that the author tells us in the first pages of the book: "What follows in this book are selective stories of guys who came on strong, then sputtered out...." The key phrase here is "selective." That is, she wrote about the bad ones, not every single man she dated (I am holding myself back from typing `moron' but, oops, too late. Tourettes typing at work again.)Other commenters complain "it's not funny, I thought it would be funny." I don't know what sort of cartoon character lives these people live, but stories based on life experiences are very rarely a series of comic monologues. I laughed aloud and often while reading, and I was thoroughly amused throughout.Finally, to anyone who has never dated a loser, congratulations, but too bad for you. Most of us do not go into relationships with a laundry list of exactly what we want in another person. And even if we did have such a list, good luck in trying to impose your will upon another human being. I think it is much easier to discover what we are looking for and how we want to be treated by recognizing what we absolutely do not want and will no longer tolerate. This is the happy ending of the book, and of most of our mature lives.

This was suppose to he a NEW book and was priced at the NEW book price. It obviously is not. Very disappointed

I just love this book!! As a twentysomething female, I really appreciated Klausner's honesty about dating and sex; I also have made alot of bad decisions in this department and to read the words of someone who has had similar awful, embarrassing, sometimes regretful and often ridiculous experiences was comforting and ripe for many laughs! I also appreciated that she didn't end the book talking in length about how happy she is now that she is in a relationship; she herself acknowledges that she didn't want the story to end that way, since so many books in this genre do, almost as a way of saying "I dated all these jerks, but now I'm in a relationship and MY LIFE IS ALL BETTER!""Didn't he know how tough it is to find people you like enough to actually date? How "playing the field," for every girl I know, means "going to bed early at least a couple of nights a month to make the loneliness stop screaming for the night[?]" .....Thank you, Klausner! Couldn't have said it better myself!

Julie is an amazing writer who is funny and heartfelt. If you loved her on Difficult People or on her podcast, this will be a hidden gem for you.

I never got through this. It just wasn't as funny as I had expected it to be. It was story after story of lame dating, and I just couldn't finish it. Way better humor books out there, IMHO...

Love the book, was very funny. Read it almost straight through. The book arrived slightly damaged (but still readable) and the seller was super accommodating and helped me out with the price of the book (even more than I thought should be returned!) anyway these are great sellers for sure

SynopsisI Don’t Care About Your Band (or to give the book its full title – I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I’ve Dated) is a collection of stories chronicling Julie Klausner’s often tragic yet extremely witty dating history.ReviewI Don’t Care About Your Band was another book I bought based on the cover. I thought it looked quirky. And I will admit – although blaming it on being British – I really had no idea who Julie Klausner was or is. However, I picked up her book in hopes of being entertained for 250+ pages.And for the most part, I was.I Don’t Care About Your Band has a very relatable feel to it. Whilst you may not know exactly what Klausner went through it does make you look back at your own dating history and realise that yes, you too had gone out with some dodgy dudes.Klauser’s delivery of these stories is self-deprecating but not to the point that you feel sorry for her, in fact I don’t think that was Klausner’s intention when she wrote this book. I did worry when I first started reading it that it would be a very self indulgent tale (something I have found with other memoirs that I have read) but Klausner’s book was more like a How to guide…no a Who to guide as in Who to avoid when dating. It was genuinely funny.The one downside for me – and again, I blame my Britishness – is that some of the references were a little lost on me. The book does heavily feature pop culture references, most of which are American so I fumbled along with the ones that I didn’t quite get. This didn’t detract from the entertaining qualities of I Don’t Care About Your Band.I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I’ve Dated by Julie Klausner is available now.You can follow Julie Klausner (@JulieKlausner) on Twitter

Julie Klausner's writing is great.

Really funny couldn't put it down definitely worth a read. It will make you feel a bit better about your own love life if anything.