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Summary: foolish and fun, "Stupid" is anything but
Review: "I'm With Stupid" is a witty and candid look into the oftentimes verboten topics relating to men and women. Gene and Gina discuss the subject matter in an intelligent and comical way, offering their sincere opinions on everything from purchasing a car to public bathroom habits. The honesty with which they delve into these topics is lighthearted and refreshing, leaving the reader with a grin that will last all day. The authors playfully banter throughout the course of the book surprising each other and their readers with answers that will shock and ring of truth. By the end of the book the reader will have taken a rollercoaster ride through everything that has been wondered about but never asked out loud. The only thing better than reading "I'm With Stupid" is hearing Gene and Gina bicker in person on all topics that were brought to light in their book, as well as those left unscathed for the next time.
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Summary: Better than the Mars-Venus books
Review: ...The difference is this one has a sense of humor. Same subject matter, much more compelling presentation
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Summary: Hysterically funny and a great thoughtful gift
Review: A guy friend got me this book and we read it together, laughing and even better talking about it all the way through. I think this is the best relationship book ever.
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Summary: wish I had thought of that...
Review: Double the wit for your money! It's the arguments and conversations we've all been having, but with the lines and comebacks we wished we had thought of. Gene and Gina tap into the human experience and social questions of our post modern society... wait a minute... they do do that, but THE POINT OF THE BOOK IS THAT IT"S FUNNY! Everybody has had these conversations with the opposite sex -- just not with as much eloquence, style and wit. Good ammunition for the spousal debates.
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Summary: Keeping It Up: Gene and Gina's guide to great communication
Review: From a Mercedes-buying contest devised to test which gender truly possesses killer, negotiating-instincts, to analyzing a pubic-hair baring model in a Gucci ad, readers enter "Gene&Ginaland" without security in site. I'm With Stupid, co-authored by Washington Post's Gene Weingarten, and University of Connecticut Professor, Gina Barreca, proves that great communication between the sexes is not necessarily analagous with finishing one another's sentences. While Gene thinks that the preeminent women's sport is "synchronized nagging," Gina dubbs Hemingway as "the premature ejaculator of American literature." They introduce perspective and expertise, consulting with Dr. Noguchi, the Los Angeles coroner who performed Marilyn Monroe's autopsy, whose knowledge on Marilyn's weight helps them disect the issue if size (hers!) really does matter in dating. Further, they reference the Talmud on notions on romantic love. They are as hilarious as they are poignant; forgivable as they are unforgiving. Their answers and insights are spontaneous, yet well thought out. They poke fun at their own genders' fears, guilty-pleasures and misconceptions. They even poke fun at poking. Together, though miles apart, both in distance and thought, this dynamic duo allow each other and their fans the opportunity to break down society's barriers to finding a path toward a gender- understanding. There is no determined pattern in their debates as to which party must initiate their conversations. Nor is there an expectation modeled for their audience that one or the other must have the last word. Weingarten and Barreca prove that though different, the genders are equally powerful and subversive, neither set before the other. In our time where Viagra reigns supreme, I'm With Stupid is apropos, and momentous, proving that it really does not matter whom comes first, as long as both ultimately come together.
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Summary: Not stupid at all!
Review: Gene and Gina talk like an old, married couple. They're not married. They've never met. But they bicker -- affectionately, mind you -- with the comfortable familiarity of longtime chums. And in their book-length dialogue, they set straight all of the issues, myths, misconceptions and bugbears that have dogged the heels of male-female relationships since the first neolithic couple argued over the color of their cave wall art. OK, so maybe I'm with Stupid doesn't quite live up to its ambitious subtitle: "One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up." But it comes pretty close. During the course of the book, they engage in pointed discourse on matters ranging from parallel parking and the subtleties of color to the roles of men and women in history, pronouns, perfect vacations and Marilyn Monroe's weight. There is talk of sex, of course, as well as the obvious topics of marriage, infidelity and public restrooms. Gucci has its day, as do car sales, poetry, pubic hair, movies, pornography and sports. And, obviously, there is a raging debate over jokes, varied opinions on the merits of humor, farts and the evolution of the giggle. I'm with Stupid will make you laugh. It will make you think, perhaps in ways quite foreign to you no matter what your gender. It's smart and clever, irreverent and wise. Read it, then share it with someone you love.
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Summary: FUNNY!
Review: I love great conversation, and to read page after page of it- and laugh my ass off in the process- was awesome.
After reading the 'Gene & Gina' columns from the Washington Post(sent to me by two different D.C. friends...), I was psyched to see they had actually done a book together...now there's some commentary I would tune into on t.v....
I think what is so appealing about these two is that-
a) they are smart.
b) they are funny.
c) they are hip.
d) they are REAL. I believe them...I believe their banter, their teasing and their
their righteousness- I CANNOT believe that they continue to be so funny...column after column- but they do- and this book proves it.
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Summary: FUNNY!
Review: I love great conversation, and to read page after page of it- and laugh my ass off in the process- was awesome.
After reading the 'Gene & Gina' columns from the Washington Post(sent to me by two different D.C. friends...), I was psyched to see they had actually done a book together...now there's some commentary I would tune into on t.v....
I think what is so appealing about these two is that-
a) they are smart.
b) they are funny.
c) they are hip.
d) they are REAL. I believe them...I believe their banter, their teasing and their
their righteousness- I CANNOT believe that they continue to be so funny...column after column- but they do- and this book proves it.
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Summary: Very funny but not original material
Review: I read Gene's Below the Beltway column weekly but was saddened to find some of the book was not original material. A number of pages of the already short book came straight from a couple of Gene's Below the Beltway column. I thought it sort of pathetic to get "paid" twice for the same work. Other than those few repeats, the book was great and I enjoyed the new material immensely.
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Summary: Please, just take stupid (far away)
Review: I've generally greatly enjoyed Barreca's books, starting with ***Snow White, but this one left me totally unimpressed. The conversations with her co-author were banal and leaden, and the "funny" bits were about as amusing as dragging around a 50lb weight chained to your ankle. Separately I know Barreca is amusing and insightful, and Weingarten might be, but together they're beating a very dead horse.
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