Book Review: Turd Ferguson & the Sausage Party: An Uncensored Guide to College Slang - Page 2

Upon reading the book, I confess I found some words that you might not ever hear on a college campus. In fact, I’d personally punch someone in the face for referring to a snack as “McGrubbies.” But terms like this were so few and far between words that you hear every single day that it's almost irrelevant. Of course some words aren’t going to be universal, but the sheer amount of shared language you can find in the terms from this book is amazing. I was upset the book was so short. At only 84 pages, you could finish this book during a layover at a bus station. As I got further into the reading I was hoping it would go on. One can only hope the editors of this book put out another edition with more stories and terms for us to enjoy.

Turd Ferguson & the Sausage Party reminds me of this decade's Piled Higher and Deeper by Simon Bronner. Piled Higher was a vast catalogue of Bronner’s definition of college life and stories. Turd Ferguson seems to go wonderfully with Piled Higher on any college student’s bookshelf. While Turd Ferguson doesn’t answer the question of what makes up college life, at only twelve dollars you can’t go wrong with this entertaining romp.

Article Author: Brandon J. Mendelson

Brandon J. Mendelson is acolumnist for the Albany Student Press and Blogger for the Albany Times Union. You can follow Brandon's college survival guide at The Graduate Student Survival Guide

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