Dear Girls Above Me, Charles McDowell
Dear Girls Above Me, Charles McDowell
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Dear Girls Above Me
Inspired by a True Story

Author: Charles McDowell

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2013


Synopsis

Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.
 
When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour.  Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test.
 
After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was “the one,” Charlie realized his neighbors’ conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman’s perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it—without ever having a clue of their impact on him.

About The Author

CHARLIE MCDOWELL is a comedy writer and filmmaker who studied directing at the American Film Institute. He owns his own production company, Cloudbreak Productions, and will direct his first feature film in the spring of 2013.@charliemcdowellwww.deargirlsaboveme.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennie on June 06, 2013

Charlie sits in his room and listens in on the lives of the two rich, obnoxious, twenty-something females in the apartment above his, aided by his building's poor ventilation system. He creates a Twitter account called, "Dear Girls Above Me" where he responds to the girls' most pressing life questio......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on July 06, 2013

This book is, by far, the funniest book I have read in a long time! I literally was laughing out loud so hard, I had tears in my eyes, during the entire book! I haven't laughed so hard because of a book, since Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane. McDowell certainly has a gift of comedic timing, a......more

Goodreads review by Katelyn on July 31, 2013

This book was only okay for me. I feel like a lot of the "quotes" he was using of the girls above him were fake, and if you're going to make them up.. make it funnier. I enjoyed the actual story parts of the book rather than the sections of tweets to the girls .. I just wasn't buying some of the stu......more

Goodreads review by Sleepless on August 12, 2015

This is one of those books that I picked up accidentally. I actually never heard of the "wildly famous" twitter account so all my knowledge comes solely from this book. At first, I thought it was humorous. The girls say some funny ridiculous things. The writing itself is also pretty funny. I like ho......more

Goodreads review by Wanda on April 27, 2021

If half stars were an option, I would have given 1.5 stars. Being funny on Twitter shouldn't translate to being asked to write an entire book, but here we are. Although not well written and very cringey in spots, there were times when it was amusing and generated a chuckle to move it beyond 1 star.......more


Quotes

"By introducing us to the memorable American folk heroes known as the Girls Above Him, Charlie McDowell sneakily does one better: he introduces us to Charlie McDowell, the hapless, wit-soaked everyman who is attempting to bridge the gap between the sexes like a very skilled, and freaking funny, anthropologist of the Kardashian era."
—Lena Dunham
 
"If any one of us were in Charlie's situation, we likely would have committed murder. We would have killed these two girls and their vapid musings. Yet Charlie and his big heart somehow derive humor, meaning, and maybe even a little sympathy for these girls and their generation of throaty babblers."
—Mark Duplass
 
"Charlie McDowell is a wonderful writer.  I have gotten his emails."
Zach Galifianakis