Full name: Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty

Author: Harris Wittels Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books eBooks.com ISBNs: 9781455514182 1455514187

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints-based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed. Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was acceptable to brag, so long as those brags were ever-so-thinly disguised as transparent humility, such as: "Just filed my taxes. Biggie was right, mo money mo problems." "I hate when I go into a store to get something to eat and the male staff are too busy hitting on me to get my order right :( so annoying!" Taking action by naming this phenomenon and creating the Twitter account called Humblebrag-dedicated solely to retweeting the humblebrags of others-Wittels's new word took the Internet by storm. Harris also shows readers what humblebrags might look like from some of history's most notable names, as well as devoting an entire chapter to a man who just might be the greatest humblebraggart of them all... Similar books: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw by Patrick F. McManus Damn You, Autocorrect! by Jillian Madison I'll Go Home Then; It's Warm and Has Chairs by David Thorne The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan by Wendy McClure Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Deric Longden Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander The Classics Reclassified by Richard Armour Look Evelyn, Duck Dynasty Wiper Blades. We Should Get Them. by David Thorne The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack by Chuck Sambuchino Poking A Dead Frog by Mike Sacks You Are Worthless by Scott Dikkers The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker Whiter Shades of Pale by Christian Lander Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night by Lewis Grizzard The Chain Of Curiosity by Sandi Toksvig Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes by Lewis Grizzard