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Overview

Share the shame.

In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002, David Nadelberg has tapped that vast wellspring of adolescent anguish in the stage show Mortified, in which grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Simon LeBon.

Following the same formula that has made the live show a beloved cult hit, Mortified the book takes real childhood journals and documents and edits the entries into captivating, comedic, and cathartic stories, introduced by their now older (and allegedly wiser) authors. From letters begging rescue from a hellish summer camp to catty locker notes about stuck-up classmates to obsessive love that borders on stalking, Mortified gives voice to the real — and really pathetic — hopes, fears, desires, and creative urgings that have united adolescents for generations.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416928072
  • Publisher: Gallery Books
  • Publication date: 11/28/2006
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 700,656
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.93 (d)

Meet the Author

Mortified is the creation of David Nadelberg—a writer/producer/angstologist living in Los Angeles, the official town of public humiliation. Since 2002, he has sifted through hundreds of journals belonging to strangers and edited them into comedic pieces. He has written and produced numerous TV pilots for places UPN, VH1 and Comedy Central that were so amazing, they never even aired.

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Mortified

Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic.
By David Nadelberg

Simon Spotlight Entertainment

Copyright © 2006 David Nadelberg
All right reserved.
ISBN: 1416928073

Unhappy Camper

Adam Gropman

Growing up in a suburb close to Boston, I was a real city kid -- a homebody. I mean, I left the house to ride my bike around or hang out with my friends, but I preferred to stay within like a one-mile radius if I could help it. There was nowhere else I wanted to be.

When I turned ten, my parents decided to toughen me up. They sent me to a rustic summer camp in Vermont for two months. The place had no electricity, no running water. The cabins had only three walls. And campers were strongly encouraged to swim naked, as the native Indians had. It was like a POW camp for kids whose only crime was growing up in the liberal suburbs.

The following is some correspondence from that summer between myself and my parents.

July 1, 1976 (First Day)

Dear Mom & Dad,

I am fine. Today I tried the swimming test. I only made it across the docks two times. Dinner is great here!

P.S. I made a lot of friends and one especially named Peter.

July 5, 1976

Dear Mom and Dad camp is good!

And the food is great! Also, when I said I only did two laps between docks, I did four . . . and I practiced to do six!

P.S. I'm kind of homesick so please visit as soon as youcan.

July 10, 1976

Dear Adam:

Boy did we love your letter!! We read it to everybody!! I am proud of your swimming improvement. It sounds like you must be a dock swimmer by now. We are having a feud with the squirrels because they are eating the peaches.

Love and kisses, Mom.

ADULT ME SAYS

My dad then added a little drawing and wrote, "Have you seen Irving the Duck?"

July 11, 1976

Mom + Dad,

I have a very bad cold and I feel very sick. This is what's wrong. I have a bad sore throat. My nose and sinus are very stuffy. I have awful headaches. I feel very weak. Everybody, except for two people in this cabin, are assholes. Right at this moment, while I'm writing this letter, someone's teasing me and saying I'm faking to be sick.

I also lost my knife and my flashlight still doesn't work.

Later That Night

Dear Mom + Dad,

I can't hack camp any longer. I'm going to have a screaming mental fit. By the way, what I mean by "take me out of this camp" is come up here in the car and take me HOME! I hate this goddamn cabin. I want to see our house and sleep in my nice, comfortable bed and sleep till 10:30 instead of waking up at 7:00!

July 13, 1976

Dear Adam:

I guess you have gone through some sad and difficult days. I think it would be better for you NOT to worry about your clothes and flashlight and things. As Alfred E Neuman says: "Why worry?"

Maybe when you are really angry at the world, you could go to some private place in the woods . . . and cry about it (that's good) or yell at the trees (they won't mind). And when you come back from hollering and hitting the ground with a stick, you won't feel angry.

Love, Mom

July 16, 1976

Dear Mom and Dad,

Camp is shitty and boring. Everything's been going wrong. Such as:

Jason borrowed my red short-sleeved shirt and lost it.

My flashlight (still) isn't working.

I got a cut on my penis when I flunked my canoe test.

I'm very homesick. I wish you could arrange so I can only stay 1 month instead of 2.

ADULT ME SAYS

What I left out from that list was that Eddie, the kid in the bunk bed over me, had accidentally dropped toothpaste down on me and then dropped a candle, which lit my blanket on fire.

July 14, 1976

Dear Adam,

I'm sorry that you hurt your penis. Does it still bother you?

Love-Dad

July 19, 1976

Dear Mom + Dad,

I fuckin' can't stand this bastard camp! You better goddamn listen to this letter or I'm going to scream! And as a matter of fact, I already screamed my ass off at everybody in this cabin today. I don't goddamn understand why you don't believe that I'm having a conniption! Now I know you hate my guts, because if you liked me, you wouldn't torture me. Come up here on Saturday the 24th. If you send me one more of those crap letters, I'll rip it up and burn it.

July 21, 1976

Dear Adam:

Did you get the comics? Things around here are pretty boring.

Love, Mom

July 26, 1976

Dear Mom and Dad,

I can't stand it anymore!!! All the kids in my cabin hate me! They steal and wreck up my things! I can't escape it! I want . . . to go . . . KILL MYSELF!!!!

July 28, 1976

Dear Adam,

Yesterday Garth, Willie and Peter said "glub glub" when I added water to their tank. Chi Chi and Bianco are fine. The red efts are doing well. That's all for now.

Love,

Daddy

July 29, 1976

Dear Mom,

I'm . . . going . . . CRAZY. Camp is shitty and everybody in the whole camp hates me! How can I take 29 more days?

Aug 1, 1976

Dear Adam,

Think about something . . . you feel really good about. And then before you know it, you won't feel like a Gloomy Gus anymore!

Mom

ADULT ME SAYS

Less than a week after my parents finally came and pulled me out nearly a month early, we received a letter from the camp owners. It was dated the day after I left the camp. The letter informed all parents that due to an accident wherein a camper was playing with matches, a fire quickly spread and burned two cabins to the ground. One of those cabins was mine. And that kid? It was Eddie, my bunkmate from before. The letter went on to explain that campers were now sleeping in the dining room and that any and all donations would be gladly accepted during this unfortunate and challenging time.

So you tell me: sheltered, elementary school cry-baby pussy, or sensitive ten-year-old prophet?

Copyright 2006 by David Nadelberg



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Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS:

Alexa Alemanni Rewriting Romance
Carolyn Waddle Almos London Calling
Anne Altman Passing Notes
Anonymous Bad Advice
Brandy Barber Brandy vs. the World
Sara Barron The Porn
Cheryl Calegari The Chanel Memos
Qraig de Groot Don't Feed the Fat Kid
Hayley Downs Pioneer Prayers
Maggie Fine The Invisible Maggie Fine
Lori Fowler The Cotton Club
Jon Friedman I Have a Dream
Jake Goldman Pumpmaster and Smooth Boyz
Lori Gottlieb The Rodeo Drive Diet
Stacey Grenrock Woods Message from the Margins (pt. 1)
Jillian Griffiths Duran Duran Fan Fiction
Kirsten Gronfield The Missionary Imposition
Kirsten Gronfield Letter to My Future Self
Adam Gropman Unhappy Camper
Abby Gross Message from the Margins (pt.2)
Mathew Harawitz In Like
Brianna Jacobson The Grass Is Always Seth Greener
Sharone Jelden Dawn of the Boy-Girl Party
Sharone Jelden Cheap Jew
Anne Jensen Gotta Have a (Boy) Friend Named Jesus
Blaise K Taxicab Confessional
Neil Katcher Problem Child
Christina Kerby An Olympic-Size Love
Jennifer Kirmse Horace Hears a Ho
Krista & Keleigh Lanphear The Challenger Song
Scott Lifton Stalking Mandy Moskovitz
Gabriel Lopez Bully Pulpit
Jennifer McDonnell Twisted Sister
Rylan Morrison My First
Vanessa Murdock Blockhead
David Nadelberg Unsent Love Letter
Will Nolan I Hate Drake
Niya Palmer Fight the Power
Mark Phinney Mark Interrupted
Retta Geek Triumphant
Sascha Rothchild Camp Letters
Sascha Rothchild Miami Vices
Giulia Rozzi Guido Love
Jami Rudofsky The Unholy Land
Stephen Scaia Dear Mr. Belvedere
Ari Scott The Young (& the Restless) Republican
Victoria Scroggins Courting Catholic Guilt
William Seymour The Guiding Liza
Michael Stern Wackies
Maria Victoria Suozzo Jesus, John, and Hurricane Gloria
Law Tarello Law of the Land

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    It's like they took a page out of my journal!

    Take the most embarassing thing that happened to you as a teen. Got it? Now share it with the world. Sound crazy? Sound liberating? That is the mortified phenomenon in a nutshell.

    Mortified- (n) Comic Excavation of Adolescent Writing

    In Mortified 2: Love is a Battlefield editor David Nadelberg collects the stories of teen love--from that first crush to that first breakup and everything in between. Nothing is left out, the gorey details are all their, along with some asides from the now-adult writers. Many of these adults look back in amazement at their actions as teens--or question what they were thinking at the time.

    From poetry to angsty song lyrics, these teens prove their creative (and often perverse) meddle. My personal favorite types of writing are the journal entries--possibly because I was quite the journal writer back in my teen years.

    From summer jobs at A&W to a secret life as a biker babe, the reader can live vicariously through the teen's mortifying fumblings as they relate to love and romance, which they do so honestly (especially considering that real names and teenage photos are added to each of these entries).

    This was one of the first books I bought for my Nook, it was a disappointingly quick read, lacking the length of the original book--perhaps that is just a mix of me being a quick reader. I also would have liked to see this book shareable through the Nook's LendMe feature, as there were quite a few stories that I would have liked to share with friends (who I know would have liked them).

    Published by Simon & Schuster Adult, Mortified 2: Love is a Battlefield is available in your local Barnes and Noble store, online at BN.com or from the Nook store. The paper format retails for $14.95, and you can pick up the e-book version for $11.99.

    Rating: 4/5

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    This book is really funny to start out with, but kind of fades away as you go along. Overall though I like it....I wonder if the creator will try to do a second one like it, or if it has already been done? In that case I don't think I would buy another one.

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