Fake and Phony

A Parody on Mannerisms Throughout History

De: Darlene Zagata

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Welcome, dear reader, to a journey through time's most ridiculous posturing, preening, and pretending. You hold in your hands a chronicle of humanity's greatest achievement: the art of being absolutely anybody but ourselves.

From the moment our ancestors crawled out of caves and realized their neighbors had better caves, we've been locked in an eternal performance. We've powdered, postured, and posed our way through millennia, convinced that the secret to happiness lies in meticulously copying whatever everyone else is doing—preferably six months after it stopped being cool.

This book is a love letter to phoniness, a tribute to fakery, and a celebration of every soul who ever looked in the mirror and thought, "You know what? This authentic me isn't cutting it. Time to become someone else entirely."

So powder your wig, practice your curtsy, and prepare to cringe at every era including—especially—our own.