Title How to Dump a Guy {A Coward's Manual}

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Summary: Guides without evangalizing
Review: A must read for all women of the '90s.

This is a great book which takes a realistic approach to relationships. It not only gently guides you to the end of the relationship, recognizing that the end happens, but reflects the good and bad. Along the pathway to the end, you are not required to change your inner being (ala Gray et al), just to get out...without harm to yourself...what we all want. The use of humor in this book is great. We have all felt the things these women describe, just have had no avenue to verbalize it.

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Summary: Comes in handy for the novice
Review: I had never broken up with anyone before and I wanted dump my 5+ year boyfriend I cared deeply about. This book not only assured me that I was doing the right thing, but it also helped me with the when and how. I give it to everyone I know who is unhappy in their relationship. It's good constructive advice and makes for a great reference book!

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Summary: Some good points among the fluff
Review: If you want to end a relationship, do it in person, plan what you will say, and do it. Good, sound advice for women and men alike. Now you don't have to read the book. But you should read it anyway since most people have probably never ended a relationship cleanly and the book is fairly amusing. Especially enjoyed the typing of men (Cling-on, Tin Man, etc.).

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Summary: The perfect gift for the friend whose guy you hate
Review: This is a fun frolic of a book which can be read right through but is best sampled in witty chunks. It's vicious, mean, funny, pointed and, best/worst of all, a "how-to" book you can actually use. Oh, to have been dumped by one of these two: done this well I might almost have enjoyed it.

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Summary: laugh out loud
Review: This is the funniest book I've read in a long time, not ha ha slapstick, but Seinfeld-esque humor. Perfect gift for a friend who's always moaning about her relationship, and it will make your own life easier, too, if she follows the advice -- or at least learns to laugh at herself.

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Summary: Hilarious, subversive, and probably quite useful.
Review: Viciously funny. These two women have an original comic voice-- confident, self-mocking, subversive of conventional sex etiquette and saccharine views of femininity. So this is what women are really like! Fillion and Ladowsky are shockingly manipulative, selfish, emotional, and sexy in turn. But they're always self-aware, and almost always hilarious. I especially liked the decriptions of "Cling-ons and other Difficult to Dump Men."

This book tries to have it both ways -- it's a "how to" guide, and a parody of a "how to" guide--and it succeeds. It should also help many women to get out of relationships they want to work up the courage to get out of.

Like having a great drunken evening with two witty girlfriends.

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Summary: Comes in handy for the novice
Review: What do you wear to break up with somone? Where should you do it? How will particular types of guys respond to the break-up? A rolling-about-the-floor funny tome of break-up advice I came across for some story research.

Covering everything from when you should break up with someone to the after shocks (your mother's coronary and rantings that you'll become an old maid, among other potential gems), it's fun reading for anyone with high-enough self-esteem, regardless of sex, even though it's definitely a woman's book. It's a great conversation book full of cheap laughs, even though it's real as hell.