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F My Life
by Maxime Valette, Guillaume Passaglia, and Didier Guedj
A French Web site for comical existential angst turns into a paperback.
Leave it to the French to usher in the Internet age by providing a forum for people to share their, uh, how-do-you-call-eet, existential angst. Gone are the days of cafes filled with Gauloise-smoking philosophers musing over the futility of life and existence as a whole. Enter fmylife.com, an English version of viedemerde.fr, where people commiserate by sharing their days in short, wry sentences. The English site launched in January, and now Random House has released it as a collection of the best anecdotes. Here’s a taste: “Today, I texted my college boyfriend to tell him how terrible I felt about cheating. He replied saying he was so relieved because he had been cheating on me with a girl in his dorm. I was talking about my math exam. FML.” Maybe Groucho Marx would’ve gotten a kick out of it.
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