Slouching Toward Adulthood
Observations from the Not-So-Empty Nest

I found this book fascinating and terribly sad at the same time. The trends and the reasons for them are fascinating, and will/are affecting our culture and society quite strongly. But the evidence of a generational short-sightedness and inability to commit to a task, job, or a person is very sad an......more

Finished about a third of the book, an couldn't take it anymore. Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. Did I mention repetitive? Literally saw the same statistics at least twice. And her interviews of parents and "adultescents" alike are sort of disgusting. Not that her interviewing techniques are bad......more

Sally Koslow vacillates between admiring the current generation of twenty-somethings and mocking them. Anyone who reads only the first chapter would expect the rest of the book to be a long, "Darn you kids, get off my lawn" rant, but the tone settles down considerably for most of the rest of the boo......more

Koslow believes my generation is too lazy, coddled, and scared to make it the way hers did. Anecdotes and statistics are used to highlight the differences in the choices and lifestyles of twenty-somethings now and a generation ago -- all the while minimizing the immeasurably more important structura......more

If you're like me - almost 30, single, living with Mom, saddled with student loan debt from grad school, working as an intern with no health insurance - then this book might make you feel like less of a loser. MIGHT. Just don't read the accounts of other people your age whose parents are funding the......more