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Summary: dim bulb in the big city
Review: Mebus seems like a nice guy, and it doesn't thrill me to say this, but alas, his first novel is tiresome and dull. Do yourself a favor and save your money until this fella learns to write. Maybe someday he will blossom, but at this point he can't expect anyone to take him seriously with this tired collection of scrapings from the comedy-club floor. Really, there is nothing here that wasn't a cliche by about 1987.
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Summary: Very funny and unexpectedly moving
Review: Most of this book kept me laughing. I read books for a myriad of reasons, to learn, to understand the people around me better, to be swept up in a world I never really knew existed. I read this book to laugh. The title caught my eye (even though the cover was kind of silly), and the first page made me laugh in the store. So I gave it a shot, and for most of the book it delivered. In fact, the main character seemed to laugh at everything. Everything from his job to the women he dated to his parents came complete with a joke. A very funny joke, usually. I especially liked his parents, who still made love and weren't shy about announcing it to their shocked son. My parents aren't quite as up front, but my dad's made a comment or two at dinner that made me blush, so I understand. After a while, though, I began to wonder if this guy, David, would ever take anything seriously. It began to annoy me a little. And then I reached the ending. And that's when the funny book stopped with the jokes and caught my heart. His final meeting with his ex girlfriend is so sad, it strips away all the banter and shows a man growing up and facing reality. Reading about David realizing not only how much love can be an illusion, but how important that illusion is to maintain, actually made me think a little about my breakup with the guy I thought I was going to marry. I wish I could have figured out some of the things David figures out, and maybe I would have been spared some pain. Still, catharsis is the other main reason I read books, and Mr. Mebus delivered.
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Summary: Very sex in the city!
Review: My friend from England told me about the book (strange, since it's a book set in New York, where have I been?) so I picked it up. Very funny! Very much like Sex in the City with a mixed gender group of friends. Nothing like Nick Hornby, by the way. I don't know if you'd call it the typical male point of view, since the main character is much more introspective about romance than most of the guys I know (most of whom are too busy staring at women's bottoms as they pass by to read a book), but it's certainly entertaining. It gives me hope that not all men are busy being bastards, thinking they should get a cookie every time they do something halfway decent. Some actually care, almost as much as we do.
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Summary: Dreadful just dreadful !
Review: Scott Mebus joins the roster of authors penning the sad love life of guys (think Bernie Jones rather than Bridget). If you liked Love Monkey, this book's for you. It's funny, contemporary and, at times, poignant. In addition, it's given a reading by Mark Feuerstein that'll make guys want to be his pal and girls offer him comfort.
Protagonist David is a pretty ordinary guy with a job he doesn't particularly like, and a string of relationships that started in high gear and soon ground to a discouraging end. He's not at all sure of his ability to find the right girl for him.......then "The Goddess" enters his line of vision. She's perfect in every way. But, how to woo her? How to win her? And therein lies this thoroughly enjoyable story. A must for all guys and gals playing the singles dating game. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: LEARNING TO PLAY THE DATING GAME
Review: Scott Mebus joins the roster of authors penning the sad love life of guys (think Bernie Jones rather than Bridget). If you liked Love Monkey, this book's for you. It's funny, contemporary and, at times, poignant. In addition, it's given a reading by Mark Feuerstein that'll make guys want to be his pal and girls offer him comfort.
Protagonist David is a pretty ordinary guy with a job he doesn't particularly like, and a string of relationships that started in high gear and soon ground to a discouraging end. He's not at all sure of his ability to find the right girl for him.......then "The Goddess" enters his line of vision. She's perfect in every way. But, how to woo her? How to win her? And therein lies this thoroughly enjoyable story. A must for all guys and gals playing the singles dating game. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: great fun
Review: sure, some of the references are familiar...but that doesn't make them any less true, relevant...or funny! pacing makes for a breezy, enjoyable read...gents, if you're looking for beach reading that travels better than FHM and is more suitable to the environment than the latest smash book on marketing strategy, this will fill the time and get you reading novels again.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: The book had a few good jokes, but it went on way, way too long and seems to think it is far funnier than it is. Overall, a pretty limp little story with no interesting characters and a very whiny narrator. Nothing special.
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Summary: Hillarious and touching - a great book for recent grads
Review: The Booty Nomad is a journey through the moraine of twenty-something love. Our hero opens the book in the days following the withering conclusion of his first grownup relationship. The ensuing chapters follow his journey in the ensuing months as he tries to find love again. Lost between humor, desperation and hubris, his journey travels the common routes of the most difficult and exciting years of learning to be an adult. I read the opening chapters of Booty Nomad while riding the train. It made me laugh to the point my fellow passengers were either reading over my shoulder or uncomfortably shifting to the far end of the car. As the book unfolds, the jokes slowly give way to the sense of loss, the loneliness and the fear that he gave up on the only woman who will ever love him. The character must contend with an ex in denial, friends of varying patience and maturity, a thoughtless employer, and an unattainable beauty for whom he swoons. All the while, the mannequins in the lingerie store window mock him. The author, Scott Mebus, has done an admirable job in his first outing. This book as been tossed in the burgeoning pool of Nick Hornsby-esque literature. However, Booty Nomad is more than the story of a man-child discovering that somewhere past the Xbox and the pizza box fortress that you have to grow up and learn to give. Instead, Mr. Mebus has written a funny and honest tale of what it is to be a man in your early twenties wondering if you are capable of being loved.
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Summary: Funniest book I have ever read!
Review: This book is hilarious. Not only does it give a girl a look into the male psyche, but it also makes you laugh out loud. (I mean, do they REALLY think those things?!)
I have already purchased several copies to give as gifts to my male AND female friends. I am sending some to my soldier friends overseas...they could really use a laugh right now, and this will be perfect!
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Summary: Funniest book I have ever read!
Review: This book is hilarious. Not only does it give a girl a look into the male psyche, but it also makes you laugh out loud. (I mean, do they REALLY think those things?!)
I have already purchased several copies to give as gifts to my male AND female friends. I am sending some to my soldier friends overseas...they could really use a laugh right now, and this will be perfect!
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