Female Intelligence

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Summary: Go Jane Go
Review: Get out the sun screen, a big hat and sunglasses, and be prepared to laugh. Jane Heller treats us to a entertaining parody of a story, making equal fun of men and women and their inability to communicate. Cleverly written with the tongue firmly in the cheek, this book was meant as an amusing introspection of cross-gender communications, marriage, friendships, and true love - with characters that are way over the top (but who you might recognize anyway). Teaching the Wyman Method of Womanspeak, Lynn Wyman is on the top of the game and believes she has developed the perfect program to enable Mars to communicate with Venus (the "cure for the common cad"). When her marriage and her business implode, we all learn a little about ourselves - not only the importance of communicating, but also about trust and friendship.

Apparently some folks thought this was the great American novel or something? This is a light hearted beach read type satire - in case you are confused. A sense of humor is mandatory.

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Summary: Predictible and boring
Review: This book is neither funny nor good reading. An intelligent female can see right through this predictible plot and not-so mysterious mystery. The premise is that someone has done Dr. Lynn Wyman, an intelligent female, wrong. I found it totally unbelievable that this character would not immediately suspect one of her close friends as her saboteur. And by the time in the book she figured out it was one of them, I was so disgusted with the weak plot, that I just didn't care to find out which friend it was. I took this book on a trip, and found myself reading the catalogs on the plane instead. If you are an intelligent person, don't bother with this one.

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Summary: I agree... ...
Review: This is the first time I've ever written a review but ater I finished Female Intelligence, I just had to! This book was hilarious! I couldn't believe how hard I laughed at some parts. It was very unlike me to crack up out loud, but I just couldn't help it. The observations Jane Heller makes about the way men speak are so dead-on, and Brandon Brock is such a likeable character despite how "macho" he seems at first. .... This book is definitely 5 stars, and now I'm going out to read the rest of Jane Heller's books!