Go Ahead, Ask Me.

by Nico Medina, Billy Merrell

Would you rather be a stereotypically beautiful class-A moron or a Nobel Prize winner with a gimp arm?

Your best friend's significant other hits on you -- and not in a cute, in-front-of-your-best-friend sort of way. What to do? Blow them off? Flirt back? Play it cool, then fill your friend in?

Would you rather marry the love of your life and have no friends, or never marry and have friends for life?

Whether you're hanging out with your besties or getting closer to your crush, these five hundred questions are sure to spark convos, truths, laughs, and buried secrets. Start from the front, the back, or flip to any page to find out who you -- and your friends -- really are.

Genres: Young Adult

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 27, 2009

Reviews

[itchy · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's some interesting questions here.

[Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun, insightful & short.

This book has a bunch of great questions to ask at a party or when you meet up with your friends! It's a really cool idea for events or if you just want to get to know other people better!

Definitely recommend it.

[Miri Gifford · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was really more of a 1.5, but I didn't want it to look like I hated it. I picked it up thinking the concept looked great, hoping to get some good blog post ideas out of it, but the questions ended up being pretty stupid for the most part. Some of them were utterly uninteresting, like "Hot or not: steak."

Some of them just showed strange biases — "Could you be happy with a nine to five desk job if it meant you never had to worry about money for the rest of your life?" "Which is grosser, beige or electric blue?"

Some were bizarrely inappropriate, I thought. "If you were a prostitute, what would you charge for each of your sexual services?" "What is your favorite stereotype?" And one about how you want to get a piercing "down there," but you're underage, and your sister's boyfriend can do it, so do you let him.

There were a few interesting questions — "If you had to be trapped for all eternity with one celebrity, who would it be?" "If you could live without either sleeping or eating, which would you pick?" — but there was also heavy normalization of illegal things like underage drinking, and I don't care for that.

Overall, just not the thought-provoking resource it looked like at first.

[Nielson · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is one of those question and answer books that are fun for car rides. However, although I really liked the idea of this book, it was awful. There were more sex questions than anything and it had a lot of questions about drugs and drinking. I hadn't ever heard of most of the drugs they mentioned. It also covered the whole spectrum of swear words including the F word. I wouldn't recommend it for any school, no matter what the level, and I am really in the middle for a public library. Great idea, but very poorly done. I was really disappointed. I would give this book negative stars if I could.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is definitely a fun book for when you have a small group of friends over.

[Teresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

too trite for me but i can see it as a tool for a party game for teenagers. how fun it must have been for the authors to come up w/this list of questions.