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Summary: Waste of time!
Review: A waste of time for anyone married more than 5 years! If you have only a double digit IQ perhaps you should read this book. It is easy to read, but the advice given is nothing more than common sense. (Teach your mother-in-law to walk ten miles/day and after a week she will be 70 miles away). Funny-- 25 years ago!
The authors often refer to the fact that men and women are different --- dah! That is why we are attracted to each other! They cite examples to illustrate a point, sometimes helpfull but usually quite mundane.
This MIGHT be a good book to give to newly weds!
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Summary: After a quick browse... Jhntks@gmail.com
Review: Firstly, I must say I can't tell the difference between the bum and [...] cleavage pictures. However, after looking at some of the pictures and browsing the text, I was definitely enticed about the balance of the text. I will be purchasing my own copy as not return the borrowed one with drool stained pages. Ha ha. I'm proud to still have my adolescent sense of humor in my late 30's. Maybe it's an early mid-life crisis thing. :-) I'll give a more thorough review of the book when I've finished it in a day or two.
Cheers,
LJ
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Summary: This book helped me!
Review: I like this book and felt there was a lot of truth in what is written about men and women. This book could have been written about my husband! I fit the profile too, and it made me think about how I come across to others. And now that I have read this book I am can understand why we have had so many hassles in the past. The whole time I was reading the book I was nodding my head in agreement, or laughing at the jokes. Everyone should read this at least once in their lifetime.
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Summary: This book helped me!
Review: I like this book and felt there was a lot of truth in what is written about men and women. This book could have been written about my husband! I fit the profile too, and it made me think about how I come across to others. And now that I have read this book I am can understand why we have had so many hassles in the past. The whole time I was reading the book I was nodding my head in agreement, or laughing at the jokes. Everyone should read this at least once in their lifetime.
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Summary: Wow. Run don't walk to buy this book...
Review: I read the authors' amazing previous book WHY MEN DON'T LISTEN AND WOEMN CAN'T READ MAPS and that book saved my marriage. I have been eagerly waiting for their next book and it hasn't disappointed...it's just as evocative, insightful and instrumental in revealing the differences between the sexes, and why men do all of the annoying things women think they do, and vice versa...there's no sexism here, it's dished out in equal measure. You will find yourself laughing out loud, but most of all realising how to make the right changes to have the best possible relationship you can with your partner, husband, wife, father, brother, mother. Enjoy...I can't wait for their next book! Thank you!!
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Summary: Not very useful
Review: I wish I could have previewed more of this book before I read it. I find it a gross oversimplification of men and women. The world is an ugly place if men and women are of the stereotyped versions featured in this book.
A few good things in there, but all in all not worth the effort.
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Summary: If you like gender roles...
Review: If you like identifying yourself with the gender role that society has decided best defines you, you will love this sexist and essentializing book about nonsense. Let's face it, women starting thinking about and doing things other than shopping, cooking, and taking care of the emotionally illiterate men in their lives a long, long time ago. Now, women work outside the home, have sex with other women, and YES! they even have complex mental abilities!!! Come to think of it, it seems the emotional lives of men actually extend beyond their remote controls, cars, and penises. Let's get out of the 1950s context, and start living in the present. Women and men cannot be reduced to stereotypes; we are actually extremely complex. If you think outdated stereotypes about gender roles can help your relationship, you have more problems than you can imagine.
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Summary: might be OK for total know-nothings
Review: The basic attempt with this book was to use sex differences - which are all the rage these days - to make a relationships self-help book. The self-help stuff requires the usual and worn-to-death case studies of couples, followed by nice/neat explanations showing us just how simple all this really is, while the sex differences material requires a more expository approach, discussing the latest in brain research, etc. The net result is that instead of being coherent, the book comes across as being schizo, like it can't decide which kind of book it really wants to be. Or maybe the two different authors wrote different chapters. In other words, some of the book is good, a lot of it is so-so, and the rest not so great. At times it's even ridiculous.The sex differences stuff is so watered down and simple-minded as to be virtually ludicrous (not to mention useless). Men are one-track minded hunters and women are caring/nurtering gatherers in this black and white universe. Consequently, they're able to give simple and definite answers to nuanced questions and situations which are, of course, a little more complicated than they'd like to think. In spite of a page in the intro making one think the authors are sympathetic to men, the net portrayal is of belching, farting, dirty-joke telling louts who won't put the toilet seat down, ask for directions, or let go of the TV remote - just like in any sitcom. There's even a section on "retraining your man". The section on lieing starts out by assuring us men and women lie in equal amounts, but then devolves into illustrating all the ways men lie to women. I suppose we could have guessed from the cover being 70% pink that this book was mostly aimed at a female audience and therefore needs to constantly remind them how superior they are to men. And there's some misleading info on how much men need/want women, for example it's stated without qualification that any/all sex for men is good, though I can assure the authors that most men know very well the difference between good and bad sex, and all the shades between. I found annoying all the plugs and mentions scatterd thru the text of the authors' previous book. Also annoying were sentences that I'd just read repeated in bold type in between paragraphs, like I'd missed them the first time; though sometimes these bold face bits have quotes or not-too-funny jokes. Altogether this wasn't a very good book. Maybe 2 1/2 stars max.
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Summary: might be OK for total know-nothings
Review: The basic attempt with this book was to use sex differences - which are all the rage these days - to make a relationships self-help book. The self-help stuff requires the usual and worn-to-death case studies of couples, followed by nice/neat explanations showing us just how simple all this really is, while the sex differences material requires a more expository approach, discussing the latest in brain research, etc. The net result is that instead of being coherent, the book comes across as being schizo, like it can't decide which kind of book it really wants to be. Or maybe the two different authors wrote different chapters. In other words, some of the book is good, a lot of it is so-so, and the rest not so great. At times it's even ridiculous. The sex differences stuff is so watered down and simple-minded as to be virtually ludicrous (not to mention useless). Men are one-track minded hunters and women are caring/nurtering gatherers in this black and white universe. Consequently, they're able to give simple and definite answers to nuanced questions and situations which are, of course, a little more complicated than they'd like to think. In spite of a page in the intro making one think the authors are sympathetic to men, the net portrayal is of belching, farting, dirty-joke telling louts who won't put the toilet seat down, ask for directions, or let go of the TV remote - just like in any sitcom. There's even a section on "retraining your man". The section on lieing starts out by assuring us men and women lie in equal amounts, but then devolves into illustrating all the ways men lie to women. I suppose we could have guessed from the cover being 70% pink that this book was mostly aimed at a female audience and therefore needs to constantly remind them how superior they are to men. And there's some misleading info on how much men need/want women, for example it's stated without qualification that any/all sex for men is good, though I can assure the authors that most men know very well the difference between good and bad sex, and all the shades between. I found annoying all the plugs and mentions scatterd thru the text of the authors' previous book. Also annoying were sentences that I'd just read repeated in bold type in between paragraphs, like I'd missed them the first time; though sometimes these bold face bits have quotes or not-too-funny jokes. Altogether this wasn't a very good book. Maybe 2 1/2 stars max.
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Summary: Dreck.
Review: The most reprehensible dreck imaginable. Sanctimonious, poorly written, and obvious. I didn't like it so good!
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