Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? : The Serial Monogamist's Guide to Love

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Summary: amazing
Review: Carina Chocano is an amazing writer. This may be the funniest book I have ever read!!! My humor is pretty dry and sometimes jaded and, as I read, all I could think about is how I wish I was this clever. A very rare find. Much funnier than the typical 'humorist' writer.
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Summary: Anti-Guide to romance for the "living together" generation
Review: Carina Chocano's charmingly poisonous Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid? is, in short, an anti-guide to dating. "Is there any advice contained in this book? Yes, but it's terrible."
The sly barbs of the Contents page had me hooked from the get-go, with such chapter titles as "You and Your Precious Feelings," and "The Five-Year Breakup Plan." Throughout most of this short book, Chocano attempts to explicate Serial Monogamy, a term of her own coinage denoting men and women who move in together for years with no intention of either breaking up or marrying, the two antipodes, she suggests, modern Americans regard with equal terror.
Chocano wields various weapons of humor with considerable skill: wild analogy (how fear of love is like being attacked by a marauding bear), esoteric classification systems (types of Dad to blame for life's problems: Absent Dad, Doting Dad, Sugar Dad, & Dad Who Can Beat Up Your Dad), and relevant juxtaposition (love or insane? The symptoms of each). Her mock-sardonic sentences have also been sharpened to that Marcel Proust/Nick Hornby perspicacious edge; namely, they force you to laugh out loud and announce, "it's so true!" to yourself every five minutes (even though no one's around, you dork).
Serial monogamists, Chocano hints, are intelligent people who may be too intelligent for their own good, dating addicts who crave one terrible relationship after another like junkie fixes. Rather than offer up the Methadone, however, Chocano revels wickedly in the illness: "No matter how trying the company of your current partner, it is important to remember that your own company, undiluted, may be even more loathsome."
Amatory missives by such literary lovers as Joyce, Kafka, and Charlotte Brontë are included, serving to illuminate, by contrast, the sorry state of modern romantic communication, which has only recently been saved by the rising importance of carefully-drafted emails: "Try to avoid overly long and clever responses, which will only make you seem dull-witted in person."
With Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?, Carina Chocano may well have penned, in the history of Western letters, the first ever postmodern guide to love.

Rating:
Summary: Anti-Guide to romance for the "living together" generation
Review: Carina Chocano's charmingly poisonous Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid? is, in short, an anti-guide to dating. "Is there any advice contained in this book? Yes, but it's terrible."
The sly barbs of the Contents page had me hooked from the get-go, with such chapter titles as "You and Your Precious Feelings," and "The Five-Year Breakup Plan." Throughout most of this short book, Chocano attempts to explicate Serial Monogamy, a term of her own coinage denoting men and women who move in together for years with no intention of either breaking up or marrying, the two antipodes, she suggests, modern Americans regard with equal terror.
Chocano wields various weapons of humor with considerable skill: wild analogy (how fear of love is like being attacked by a marauding bear), esoteric classification systems (types of Dad to blame for life's problems: Absent Dad, Doting Dad, Sugar Dad, & Dad Who Can Beat Up Your Dad), and relevant juxtaposition (love or insane? The symptoms of each). Her mock-sardonic sentences have also been sharpened to that Marcel Proust/Nick Hornby perspicacious edge; namely, they force you to laugh out loud and announce, "it's so true!" to yourself every five minutes (even though no one's around, you dork).
Serial monogamists, Chocano hints, are intelligent people who may be too intelligent for their own good, dating addicts who crave one terrible relationship after another like junkie fixes. Rather than offer up the Methadone, however, Chocano revels wickedly in the illness: "No matter how trying the company of your current partner, it is important to remember that your own company, undiluted, may be even more loathsome."
Amatory missives by such literary lovers as Joyce, Kafka, and Charlotte Brontë are included, serving to illuminate, by contrast, the sorry state of modern romantic communication, which has only recently been saved by the rising importance of carefully-drafted emails: "Try to avoid overly long and clever responses, which will only make you seem dull-witted in person."
With Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?, Carina Chocano may well have penned, in the history of Western letters, the first ever postmodern guide to love.

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Summary: Surpriseingly Good!
Review: I dont ususally go in for this kind of thing but my godniece had a copy in the john and I read it and I'm damn glad I did. This writer is a smartalick but in a good way, alot like my niece which is probably why neither one of them will get a man any time soon. Now I'm way too old for the dating game, but this book had me cackling, right there in the john. Very irrevrant and witty, with lots of highfalutin language and observations. I'll look forward to any more books from this writer...maybe on a topic closer to home! How bout a book on fishing little missy!

Rating:
Summary: Surpriseingly Good!
Review: I dont ususally go in for this kind of thing but my godniece had a copy in the john and I read it and I'm damn glad I did. This writer is a smartalick but in a good way, alot like my niece which is probably why neither one of them will get a man any time soon. Now I'm way too old for the dating game, but this book had me cackling, right there in the john. Very irrevrant and witty, with lots of highfalutin language and observations. I'll look forward to any more books from this writer...maybe on a topic closer to home! How bout a book on fishing little missy!

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Summary: Laugh out loud funny...and too true.
Review: I'm sharing this little read with all my friends. I picked it up casually while on vacation and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I've never heard of the author before this, but she has a great talent for humor writing. And, she must have experience (and many single-adult friends) in the dating, cohabiting and everything-but-marriage realms because all her anecdotes rang all too true. I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Laugh out loud funny...and too true.
Review: I'm sharing this little read with all my friends. I picked it up casually while on vacation and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I've never heard of the author before this, but she has a great talent for humor writing. And, she must have experience (and many single-adult friends) in the dating, cohabiting and everything-but-marriage realms because all her anecdotes rang all too true. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: It's Funny But It's All So True!!
Review: If you're a woman within shouting distance of 30 and not married, then you will see yourself in this book! Even if you never bought "The Rules" or "Bridget Jones" and her clones, you will laugh out loud when Chocano lists all the things you've seen go wrong before in your relationships but were too in love--then too lazy, to do anything about. This is a book for anyone who is a veteran of the relationship wars. Carina Chocano has found the funny, dark side of shacking up.