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Summary: insightfully funny
Review: I read this book a few months ago, enjoyed it, found it funny, and forgot about it. I was not inspired by any of the characters, neither was I turned off by them, yet I still enjoyed it and do recommend it. It's obviously meant to be an entertaining tale of a woman with low-self esteem dumped by a louse and how she chooses to move on. All the characters have flaws, with a few stereotypical traits thrown in here and there (i.e. the best friend who is gay and dresses to the nines). It's not meant to be a theoretical breakthrough in the pyschology of men. It's just a funny, sometimes silly, novel.
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Summary: Take it for what it is
Review: In reading the other reviews (some a little too critical) I have some advice: take this book for what it is!! It is a funny, cleverly written book depicting dating life in the 90's. No, it doesn't paint the nicest picture of men, but its all in fun! Beginning each chapter with "scientific" animal data and later incorporating this into the upcoming chapter(s) had me in stitches. And, if you stick with the book, the end doesn't quite turn out how you would think. Enjoy the book, don't read into it!
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Summary: One trick pony
Review: If you've been unlucky in love (and who hasn't), you'll probably find a book like Animal Husbandry a good cure for the blues. A book LIKE Animal Husbandry, but NOT Animal Husbandry itself. This book was a one trick pony. The author states her initial premise early on, but then never develops it or the characters. I kept waiting for her to flesh out her old cow/new cow theory, but instead she kept repeating the same joke page after page, chapter after chapter. I wanted to laugh, but the book just wasn't funny. I wanted to cry, but I just didn't care about the characters. The strength of this book was supposed to be its witty commentary and snappy dialogue, but I found the whole thing trite and predictable. So obviously based on the author's real life that it was painful to read.
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Summary: A book on cow behavior might be more interesting
Review: While some of the facts about cow behavior and how it "might" relate to humans and their relationships had some interest, there just wasn't much after that. And the ending was a total disappointment.
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Summary: Hilarious. A great summer read.
Review: Let's get over ourselves - this is an entertaining novel that ANY woman who's ever been involved with ANY man can relate to. I've shared it with all my female friends. Men bashing? A little. I say, so what?! The book is just plain fun.
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Summary: Another entry in the hip New York City single woman genre.
Review: Yes it's funny and hip but so what, we have seen this story dozens of times already, including the gay male best friend. Smart, hip, unloved, single New York career woman is dumped by unfeeling yuppie male. Jane, the main character spends 300 pages 'kvetching' about being dumped by Ray, her boss, after dating for three months. Get over it girl! If you want an entertaining book for the beach or an airplane trip try it, otherwise it's just a remake of many others.
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Summary: and she said, "Get a life!"
Review: Am I the only one who feels that the novel's protagonist is, shall we say, pathetic? I didn't quite feel the motivation behind Jane's desperation. She did only "go out" with Ray for a couple of months, did she not? Or did I miss something?! The strongest character in the book by far is Joan, and that isn't saying much. There is so much more that I would like to know about the book's characters, but unfortuately, Zigman doesn't quite divulge the details.
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Summary: Interesting, but not for long...
Review: I found this book interesting at first, but as the main character, Jane, "developed", I found her more and more unbelievable. First, this guy Ray just didn't seem so great, yet it sends her over the edge when they break up. "Get a life of your own" I kept thinking. Second, if he's cheating on someone else with you , it's most likely that he'll cheat on you with someone else. Maybe I'm a cynic, but that seems pretty obvious - to Jane it's this major revelation. The obviousness and unbelievablity of the characters and situation crowded out most of the successful aspects of this book.
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Summary: Cute, entertaining, little heavy on the smoking!
Review: I enjoyed reading Laura Zigman's first novel. Smart, witty, entertaining, and well researched, it gave a name to a theory that I believe in. But all the cigarette smoking and drinking (naming brand names, no less) bothered me. I started to think I was reading a movie script wannabe.
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Summary: Didn't work for me
Review: This book really didn't work for me on any level. I tried to find it funny, but didn't. I tried to feel sympathy for the narrator, but couldn't. I never really believed that she was so invested in that one brief relationship, and I never believed that she trusted him that much to begin with, so her endless devastation never rang true to me. I found the book mostly repetitive, unbelievable and unfunny.
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