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Summary: Its so funny because its so true!
Review: One of the funniest plays I saw in the last few years is The Caveman. I laughed so hard because the skits about how women and men do not communicate are so true. This book takes a slightly more serious approach to the subject, and goes beyond to teach us how to be sensitive to the differences between how men and women communicate, what the emotional needs are, and often, what our behaviors mean. The practical suggestions for interpreting and responding to certain behaviors and improving communications would benefit every relationship. I have just finished reading an exciting book about how to achieve 20 times normal progress in business, "The 2,000 Percent Solution" by Mitchell, Coles and Metz. In it there is a chapter called Words Fail Me. It describes The Communications Stall, where the message sender thinks the message is clearly received, yet the message hearer may not have heard it at all, or the message was heard but interpreted differently than it was meant. These problems are pervasive in business as well, between similar and different sexes. One solution is to use many ways to send the message (written, verbal, video), repetition, checking if the message was heard and what the recipient thought he or she heard and what actions are about to be taken as a result. This is good advice for everyone. I am glad to see that both in personal relationships and business we now recognize this problem, can talk about it, and are developing 2,000 percent solutions. Read and see yourself in both books and then become a great communicator.
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Summary: The Other View
Review: I heard talk of an opposing viewpoint so I finally took up Susan Hamson's counterpoint, the "Rebuttal from Uranus" in TAKING SIDES/HUMAN SEXUALITY, 6e. Incredible!! At first view, the Mars and Venus metaphor seems to make good common sense. Hamson rips it to shreds and challenged me to question my assumptions. I feel like I have a brain again.
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Summary: Write a book about what people already believe, make $$$$$$$
Review: Pop psychology at its worst. Mr. Gray (he purchased his Ph.D. from a mail-order university so I will not call him Dr.) basically makes a compilation of every stupid stereotype about men and women (true or not) and than passes it off as an original work. I could've gotten the same info from talking to a frat/sorority member! The worst part is that he claims that all these things are facts yet he doesn't once mention a source for these facts, or for his helpful hints (one doesn't even know if he's tried them aside from a few silly anecdotes, which may work for the people involved but are unlikely to help anyone else). If you really want to find out about sex differences (if any exist...) take a social psychology course!
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Summary: Complete and utter Garbage
Review: "Dr." Gray's bestseller is filled with unfair generalizations and gender biases that, in my opinion, should not even exist in today's society. Unfortunately, many people (including many of my close friends) have taken his advice to heart. Of course, that idea might just be by inbred "caveman" personality taken over again. YES, I'VE CHANGED MY MIND. ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO IS TO BECOME ONE WITH THE COUCH, DRINK BEER, AND WATCH SPORTS ALL DAY BECAUSE I KNOW MY PSYCHOTIC WIFE WILL LOVE ME NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. MAYBE SHE'LL TAKE A NICE BUBBLE BATH TO RELAX WHILE SHE'S AT IT. I plan to either burn this book or sell it to some poor sap who thinks it will really make a difference.
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Summary: I wandered lonely as a cloud...
Review: ..o'er vales and hills, until all at once I read "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" and good Dr. Grey's ten thousand insights made me toss my head in a sprightly dance. I gazed - and gazed - at what wealth the book to me had brought. And when in vacant or pensive mood, I read for this book and then my heart with pleasure fills. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Mr. Grey's work is sure to please!
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Summary: Mars? Venus? Go Back Home!
Review: I feel like from different planet when I to read this book. English not hard, but little of book is to talk about space. No UFOs in the book, and I read to cover. Why is the point of this book, please to tell me. It not good for astronomer.
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Summary: This book is empowering to men and women.
Review: This book is incredible. I think it is neither offensive to women nor men. I do not understand why people take offense to it. The book is intending to say that men and women act in ways that they cannot help and he is just giving simple ways to help us get along better with each other and communicate. Thank you Dr. Gray.
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Summary: mediocre at best
Review: An appalling exhibition of blatant mediocrity, this chaotic clutter of bombastic solipsism would best be left where it is found.
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Summary: A Simplistic Guide
Review: A rather simplistic approach that offers a minimum level of insight into the differences between men and women. Read it at face value and don't expect a real enlightening experience. Readers interested in a more insightful view of how men and women differ in their view of sex and relationships should read FRIED CALAMARI, a well written, funny novel between a man and a woman on a first date sharing their views of sex and relationships.
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Summary: Simple-minded, stereotypical, clap-trap.
Review: It is truly sad that this is the kind of simple-minded rhetoric that really gets a response in our society. It's easy to understand so its a runaway best seller. Is anyone out there thinking?
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