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Summary: how to pretend to be sophisticated
Review: there's nothing wrong with improving your appearance or embracing your sensitive side, but this book is a bit creepy. if you're a big ape who wears sweatpants with leather jackets and workboots, this book is good for some general grooming and fashion tips. but beyond that it seems to nudge you into pretending to be something you're not. i mean i cringed when i read about what artists and authors the modern metro should know about, simply for the sake of looking more metrosexual. it boils down to how to look like a sophisticated chic urbanite without actually being one. the author mumbles a little about how changing the outer you helps change the inner you, etc., but why would anyone do that for a trend that won't exist much longer anyway? it's as if there was a book that told you how to dress, talk, and think like a doctor, except you don't have to go to school for ten years.
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Summary: get this for your boyfriend, husband etc.
Review: This book is a riot and perfect for every man you know who hasn't yet discovered that pleated pants are hideous. If you know someone who needs "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" but doesn't live in Manhattan...buy him this book.
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Summary: Men's basics, not more
Review: This book is about basics, everybody should know. If you're interested in this book, you know what's in it and hopefully more. If not, you'll need much more than this book. Nevertheless it's funny to read, but not more.
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Summary: You know this book is a parody, right?
Review: This book, like the Hipster Handbook, is NOT a guidebook. It is a satirical look at the feminization of the masculine ideal in a culture where thought has been neglected to the point that people actually need to be told how to dress themselves. While you may think that some of the tips are good, keep in mind, this book is mocking those who would treat it as an actual guidebook. The reason this book seems to encourage large expenditures on fashion and/or cosmetics is to highlight the absurdity of the 21st century urban lifestyle and to show the lack of individuality and taste that today's corporate world has cultivated in today's young men, coupled with the male post-feminist counter-revolution, where men have actually invaded the areas that were once traditionally female (cooking, decorating, dating men). It is a reflective look at the do's and don'ts that fill the pages of GQ and Esquire. This book should instead be used to illustrate how in 21st century American society, style has completely eclipsed substance. Personally, if I'm spending $1,500 on a suit, I don't buy off the rack. I'd have one hand-tailored. And I wouldn't use a guidebook to tell me how to dress myself.
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Summary: How to be a class act
Review: This is a great book for learning the finer things in life, when to take the tab, how to dress etc. I suggest you augment this book with a brilliant best-selling book Optimal Thinking-How To Be Your Best Self to learn how to be your best in every circumstance. With style and Optimal Thinking you will make the most of every situation, and that's all that is needed to optimize success in life.
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Summary: an essential read
Review: This is a smartly written book, and thankfully it's also light reading. Required reading for any man who cares to be more refined than the next guy & establish himself as a cut above.
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Summary: Read it over coffee
Review: This thin volume has some good information on being the so-called "modern man." It's concise enough that you can read it from cover to cover over a cup of mocha or two in your local bookstore. I doubt it's worth buying and keeping, but you may want a quick reference down the road. The book presents short chapters on various apsects in a man's everyday life, from social etiquette to wardrobe to room decoration to music collection. You have to remember, this is one pretentious guy's version of how *you* should live. Whether single or committed, you should be the one deciding how you should live. (Of course, within the limits of legality and ethics.) You are already a grown-up, and you don't need others to tell you how you should behave. That said, the book does have some interesting tips such as how to pick out a wine at a restaurant and how to act like an old-fashioned gentleman... or how to act "gayish" to attract other people's attention, be it from men or women. It's sprinkled with humor, but it has two major problems that prompt me to recommend reading it over coffee rather than buying it: 1) there's a number of inaccuracies, and a lot of coverage is very superficial and incomplete 2) they use a 9-point font which to me seems more like a 7-point font, which means it's very difficult to read unless you have 20/40 vision (or vision temporarily improved by a white chocolate mocha or something else more stimulating). In a nutshell, this small book can give you some interesting ideas about how to become a "metrosexual" man. Whether that's what you want is up to you.
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Summary: Chapters to live your life by!
Review: What a triumph! This is the book that every man (especially thise who require hair product) should have on his bookshelf! This is certainly a spring board to a better world. How to behave at dinner parties, how to groom, how to think; it's all here. Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy!
Warrick Pill Esq
Urban Sydney/Melbourne Australia
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Summary: Every guy should read this!!
Review: When I saw it at the book store I thought it was a joke book. But upon reading a few pages I was hooked. It has many pointers on all aspecs of life that men encounter nowadays. Its a book that can be read over and over again, or just keep it close to you for quick reference.
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