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What Men Don't Want Women To Know : The Secrets, The Lies, The Unspoken Truth

What Men Don't Want Women To Know : The Secrets, The Lies, The Unspoken Truth

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Offensive, Raw, Rude, but Candid!
Review: As a relationship author myself I'm always on the lookout for fresh material or perspective on men-women issues. I brought this book with me last week on my vacation to Cabo San Lucas. At home I would have found this book to be entertaining and at times partially correct, but in a vacation resort (or a city like Las Vegas) this stuff can be amazingly true. For all those women who have reviewed this book and have given such low ratings, I'm afraid that you're probably the ones who need to be aware of this the most. If you can get past the obvious outrageousness (for entertainment) and annoying page layouts, there's more truth than you can imagine. If this is too strong for your tastes, then take a look around and notice all the strip clubs that are around the big cities. As far as I can see amongst my wide range of friends, the things in this book like (prostitutes, Deny, Business trips, masturbation, and the clever test at the end) are either in the thought process or actually being played out by a significant number of men. Those who are not would be those who are very spiritually evolved (and see no fulfillment in this direction) or are pansies. If your guy is a take charge, macho, guy's guy, then don't be surprised if either he or his friends are like this book. There's more truth in here then almost any woman could believe. In many cases, it is more a matter of finding out what stage the guy is in. But the authors are right in that there are definitely "some" things in here that us guys don't want women to know....and if you're a woman don't pass up on this kind of candid understanding. It probably won't be repeated a whole lot more in mainstream published books.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: For the Paranoid Only
Review: The reader will either reject the "truth" of this book or she'll accept it and spend the rest of her marriage looking suspiciously at her husband and wondering if he is as big a jerk as the authors say he is. Want peace of mind? Skip this book. If you have a good marriage this book won't help. If you have a bad one this book will only make you paranoid.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Please do not believe this sexist garbage...
Review: --"If a man is given the opportunity to engage in sexual relations with an attractive female, with no fear of getting caught and little risk of transmitted diseases, he will do so. Always. Without fail. There are no exceptions."

--"Man spends his life in one of two basic states: loaded or unloaded."

--"A prostitute is the perfect one-nighter."

--"Men are attracted to beautiful young women.... If you saw your man at the office when you are not present, you would become physically ill."

These are all lies. Only the trashiest scum would conform to the stereotype presented in this book. I realize that there are men like this in the world but I can garantee you that all of us men are not like the pathetic scum presented in this book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I hate to admit it, but I enjoyed this book.
Review: Now of course I don't agree with most of it. I think these two writers were writing this mainly for entertainment purposes only. The back of the cover should be a tip off. Of course not all men are like the ones described in this book. If you believe that and at the same time you are looking for a solid relationship...well, you might as well hang it up. This is for laughs and some insight on what men want and how they think when it comes to sex with women. Yes, sex is important to men, but are all like the ones catagorized here where they would cheat on you for the sake of a quick sex act??? NOPE! The ones who won't have mates who treat them right (in the bedroom). It's up to the women to know what he wants, and then make him happy, as it should be with the man when trying to make his mate happy. A 50/50 relationship! This book is interesting, humorous reading, and yes, some of it is true. I hate to say it, but we men think about the weirdest things when it comes to sex. The chapters on Masturbation & Loaded Vs. Unloaded are true. Just don't take it too seriously. That's just the way we are. Just know that the man who is kept happy at home, is the man who stays home. And, of course, vice versa.

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ALL MEN SHOULD BE ASHAMED BY THESE AUTHORS
Review: This book actually made me ill! Guys out there......... these two author wanna-a-be's (of course they were too ashamed to use their names)have given the name pig to all men. They claim that there is not one good man out there, and if there is, he's puts on a very good front. He has belittled men more than any male-bashing woman ever could. Ladies out there.......don't waste your money on this piece of pure garbage. This book was definitely written to ruin many good relationships. They state that no man can be trusted and that all men want nothing more than sex........ (even when their wives are in intensive care, they WILL stop to check out a girls cleavage, according to these two clowns). If you and your man share the beautiful gift of love, your man won't want anything more that you. P.S. I BOUGHT THIS BOOK TO GET A FEW LAUGHS WITH MY GIRLFRIENDS. BOY WERE WE IN FOR A REAL SURPRISE.

*** A DEGRADING PIECE ...... FOR MEN AS WELL AS THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What a joke
Review: Written by a confessed sex addict and his pal, who seem to think they are typical. Yes, men are wired to be very, very attracted to sex & women...DUH. However, many of us have learned that there is more to life than following our #&%*. Read this if you want to know what sex addicts and serial philanderers don't want you to know. For the rest of us, sex is very important, but not above all else in life.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: True to some extent, so what?
Review: This book was interesting and some of what it said is true. However if every word written in this book was taken literally for every single man on this planet, then all women would be doomed. This book may have been written to open women's eyes to what is really going on, but it was also written with the intent to shock and in many cases take a mild case of the truth to the nth degree. The truth is some men are like that, some are not, and there is everything in between. Also worth mentioning is the point that there are men out there that are like that at SOME POINT IN THEIR LIFE only. There are men out there who like variety and no single woman can hold them even if she is a sex-goddess. There are also other men out there who spend their entire life obsessing about only one woman, and many times that one woman won't give them the time of day. My advice to women is not to look at this book as the secret manual to all men. Chances are if you picked this book of the shelf and if what you read in it bothered you, then there is probably something that bothered you in the first place about your man or your relationship or your self-esteem. Truth is, for most cases ladies, if you have a man in your life chances are he is not oblivous of the fact that there are other beautiful women on this planet. He may fantasize about his co-workers, your friends and every other woman you may or may not be afraid he is fantasizing about. He may lie when he gives you a PG rated version about what happened at that bachelor party. But in 99% of all cases he loves YOU. Most men will not jeopardize their relationship with you and will not cheat. And many will not cheat EVEN if they did not have to worry about being discovered or STDs. Others give in to temptation if and when the opportunity arises, much like you can't resist that piece of chocolate cake when you are on a diet. However they DO suffer a horribly painful loss if they lose you as a result. This book can be viewed as hilarious and funny, or may depress you for days and maybe even make you hate the world. Concentrate on YOUR relationship. It is a totally unique relationship with its own set of good things and bad things. Normally the fact that your man may find other women attractive should not bother you any more than it bothering him that you read romance novels. If it does bother you, either you have a very good reason to worry about it, or you are insecure. And in both cases you will need to address the issue and fast. I don't think you will find the answers in this book.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't waste your time or money
Review: If you're a woman looking for insight, this is just another helping of the stereotypical man stuff. Buy a Cosmo, it's more entertaining. He has fantasies, he'll cheat if he can, blah, blah, whatever. This tells you nothing you haven't heard before. Pretty blunt, occasionally funny but truly nothing new.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This Book Needs More In-Depth Analysis
Review: I read the book and sighed.

My opinion is that this book is written about certain TYPES of men. Not all men are in this book!

What types of men does this book describe? Easy:

Misogynists and/or psychopaths.

That is my conclusion.

Since about every three out of ten men is psychopathic, I've determined (being an amateur expert on the subject and student) that books like these are written about men with personality disorders. Since hardly any women are psychopathic, this explains why more books are written about bad men.

I do find some of the information o.k., but I would not classify every single man as fitting the blueprint this book alleges is "truth."

Some I know are very gentle and quiet souls who would never hurt a fly, let alone lie to their girlfriends or wives.

HOWEVER (!) YES, I do agree that there are also some GRADE A JERKS out there (whom I call psychopaths) and we must educate women on the perils of these predators among us.

Read this book in the scope that you are probably reading accounts about men who are disturbed.

For a closing statement, mature men don't go around talking about women's body parts as if they are inanimate objects to be taken and used, then discarded. At least I would hope not.

If I am wrong, then G-d forbid, we are all in trouble. Let's move to our own planet and raise men to be our sex slaves.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What a total crock!!
Review: "Smith" & "Doe" tell women exactly what scum men are, which women seem to want to hear a lot these last couple of decades, so nauturally the material will appear. It already has on TV, in greeting cards, and just about everywhere else you look. Ho, hum, what else is new?

While they may be writing from personal experience, the old bridge-players' adage "you never get better than the people you play with" applies abundantly. I certainly don't recognize myself or anyone I've ever known in their relentless caricaturing of men. Maybe these guys are total jerks and not afraid to try to cash in by saying so -- but then, by definition, as jerks they're compulsive liars and shouldn't be trusted.

Women who want to feel angry about men or are hardcore misandrists for some reason will slurp this junk up and love it, but it's message can only poison relationships, create distrust, and make things worse for both men and women. Some people do want to believe the worst, but rather than dump on men, women would be better off pondering why they're *choosing* jerks rather than actively seeking out the many genuinely good men out there. Believe what this book says about men at your own risk. This book is probably #1 on my list of books which should be burned and/or banned because of its viciousness. It is so full of untruths, and a comparable book about women would never find it's way into print, which (come to think of it) is worth thinking about. The material in this book isn't.


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