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Summary: didn't do it for me
Review: I thought Booty Nomad looked like a light read, so I gave it a try, but I found it trite, overlong, and obvious. There isn't a lot of insight into what makes relationships tick, and after a while the characters all blend together into an amorphous blur. Also the jokes were not what I would call top-caliber stuff.
Rating: 
Summary: Pretty decent
Review: I thought that this book was not half bad. I could identify with the guy and his friends, especially that punk guy. The first few chapters were kind of slow, but it picked up steam and the second half of the book went by in one night. It made me wish the writer had gone back and tightened up the front, because the end was really good. you could see how in denial the guy was about everything and I really liked how he dealt with the Eater of Souls. I also really liked the subway bit. It had nothing to do with anything, but it was really funny.
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Summary: no there there
Review: I thought this book would be light and funny and at first I was into it. The best scenes are the ones that open the book. Unfortunately, as the story goes on the main character and his puppet show become first tiresome, then irritating. The women especially are just cardboard figures and you wind up not caring who the guy hooks up with. Also the book starts to seem like an endless slog. I have to admit, I finally gave up about two thirds of the way through it. In the end, there just isn't enough wit to sustain an entire book. It's like listening to a standup comedian who has 5 minutes of funny material but won't let you leave the club even though his act has run dry.
Rating:
Summary: fresh as last Tuesday's sushi
Review: I tried to get into this book, but as the narrator whines and fusses and tosses out lame dirty joke after lame dirty joke, I got tired and gave up. Life is too short, and Booty Nomad is too long.
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Summary: Very sex in the city!
Review: I'm not sure the world needs a male version of Bridget Jones. That's especially true when you consider that the Bridget character had more going for her than the main protagonist in this book named David. For that matter, the same could be said for all the characters in this book who are all self-centered, clueless and without ambition.Of course not all is bad; the book has some excellent insights and can be very funny in spots. The main character's work as a producer for a children's puppet show proved to be a great source for laughs and his infatuation with a co-worker was insightful. Unfortunately, the focus was on David's pathetic lovelife outside of work with a collection of women who he only remembered by nickname. I'll skip trying to explain the plot of the book because there wasn't one of any substance. This is a book that is about as significant as a television sitcom. It was funny in spots and entertaining every once in awhile, but you could spend your time so much more productively. I'll give this writer another chance because he can be funny, but I hope he will spend some energy on characters who aren't as pathetic.
Rating: 
Summary: Funny at Times but not Worth the Trouble
Review: I'm not sure the world needs a male version of Bridget Jones. That's especially true when you consider that the Bridget character had more going for her than the main protagonist in this book named David. For that matter, the same could be said for all the characters in this book who are all self-centered, clueless and without ambition. Of course not all is bad; the book has some excellent insights and can be very funny in spots. The main character's work as a producer for a children's puppet show proved to be a great source for laughs and his infatuation with a co-worker was insightful. Unfortunately, the focus was on David's pathetic lovelife outside of work with a collection of women who he only remembered by nickname. I'll skip trying to explain the plot of the book because there wasn't one of any substance. This is a book that is about as significant as a television sitcom. It was funny in spots and entertaining every once in awhile, but you could spend your time so much more productively. I'll give this writer another chance because he can be funny, but I hope he will spend some energy on characters who aren't as pathetic.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: It had me laughing from the first page. The thing that really stood out for me was the fact that here was a man who actually had a good female friend he relied on. Every book in "Urban Fiction" I read always tries to divy us up into men on one side and women (and gay men) on the other, which I am unable to relate to. Mebus' world, however, comes as a breath of fresh air with its very real look into a group of New York friends. These are relationships I recognize. And when Annie and David are sitting on the stoop at the end, looking to the future with only their friendship as a certainty, I was right there with them. Living in New York for many people is about parents on the phone and friends as your new family. This book captured that reality in a both funny and real way. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Summary: So this is what men think
Review: It's a refreshing to finally read about a man who isn't coldly going through women like they're chewing gum. A hilarious trip down the mind of a guy as screwed up and obsessed about women as we are about men. The ending gave emotional weight to the journey as Mebus unearths some meaningful truths about men and women and how we get together and fall apart.
Rating:
Summary: Very funny
Review: Looking down at the last few reviews, I can only say humor is subjective, because I found the book very funny. I laughed throughout, though I must admit that the puppet porn was my favorite. I found the characters to be quite real, especially Annie and Jim, two funny but tragic supporting characters. The thing I enjoyed most about the book, however, wasn't the humor. It was the undercurrent of sadness. This is not a book in which the guy gets the girl. None of them get what they want. But like the song goes, they get what they need.
Rating:
Summary: 18 bucks? That's about $9 per laugh
Review: Mebus is that most excruciating of specimens, the almost-funny guy who thinks he is much, much funnier than he is. Booty Nomad is an insipid tour through the peabrain of a comprehensively uninteresting man as he obsesses over an old girlfriend he calls the Eater of Souls. No doubt Mebus is trying to get back at someone in his sad existence, but his point of view ain't original and none of the characters are likely to hold your interest.
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