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I Only Flunk My Brightest Students: stories from school and real life
I Only Flunk My Brightest Students stories from school and real life Author:Michael N Marcus FROM THE AUTHOR: — This could be viewed as a "coming-of-age" book, with young male silliness and horniness in the tradition of Animal House and Porky's. It is that, but there's more to it. — It's a collection of more than 100 stories that span 55 years. They're mostly short and funny. One is long and funny, and serious and chilling. They occurred ... more »in early childhood, while in public school and college, and while working in advertising, journalism, telecommunications, and as an amateur attorney.
Culture clash is a frequent theme. So are food, phoniness and incompetence. There's lots of sex, drugs and rock & roll. Even the sex and drug stories are funny. Some stories were written as revenge for bad teachers and evil bosses.
There are also stories about the women I thought about marrying and the one woman I did marry. And there are stories about painful encounters with Macy's and Wal-Mart, and a minute-by-excruciating-minute report on a software upgrade.
The stories took place in New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, between 1952 and 2007.
There are four murders. If I get killed for writing this, there will be five, and someone else will write the sequel.
The book's title is a quote from one of my high school teachers. She was NUTS.
She also said, "An F is the mark of true genius." Unfortunately, very few college admissions officers knew that an F from "Crazy Frazy" was the equivalent of another teacher's A.« less