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Summary: These guys rock.
Review: I'm sorry for the woman below who prefers cats (I wasn't even going to write a review until I read that!)...I'll take these guys any day! They're funny, sad, infuriating, evasive, charming, smart, smart, smart, and honest--they're even honest about being dishonest!!This book is like a primer for life with men--although not polite goody two shoes men, and who wants them anyway. These are a range of men in all their glory and warts. I read the bitch in the house, which, by the way, infuriated people all over the planet. And this is a rocking sequel...just what I was hoping for, and just as in your face. The main thing is, you can't really put it down. Some of the stories are better than others, but they're all compelling. Love these guys or hate them...they've got stories to tell, and they tell them incredibly well.
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Summary: Great Follow up To Bitch in the House
Review: If you read Bitch in the House, then you'll most likely enjoy this book. If not, read this book and then read Bitch in the House.
This book is a good weekend read, but I didn't enjoy it as much as it's predecessor. Why Men Lie is the strongest entry in the anthology. And, the volume's weakness does lie with the homogeniety of the contributors. NY is not center of the world!
Besides these pity complaints of mine, Bastard will help give women a glimpse into the pscyhe of the men we love--who sometimes can't do simple tasks! If you read the book- you know what this refers to.
Read and enjoy.
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Summary: I dont care anymore I have two cats
Review: If you werent a lesbian before you read this book you will strongly consider converting after reading it.
basically, men are guys , they arent men , they are guys. guys are not worth shaving your legs for. reality is a bitter pill best not taken.
Women buy books like this and hope the truth will be something better then it is, yet the truth makes you prefer cats.
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Summary: Funny and enlightening!
Review: This is, of course, the male response to "The Bitch in the House." Here, 27 men write essays on all aspects of relationships with women and some essays just simply trying to explain what makes them tick. Although several of the essays in the women's version were wittily written, I found the essays here more overtly funny, some of them quite funny. And yet these men, like the women, lay it all out there for all to read. In between the giggles and guffaws, I got a heck of a lot of insight into these men (and perhaps, by extension, other men). I'd have to name as my favorite essay "Men in Houses" by Ron Carlson, because it was so wry and sweet. But I enjoyed all the essays, even those by men I'm not sure I'd like to meet.
If you decide to read this and haven't yet read "Bitch in the House," I strongly suggest you read it as well, to keep the world in balance.
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Summary: "Why Men Lie and ALways Will " Hooked me!`
Review: This isn't my usual type of book but when I read the blurb on the back cover about why men lie and aways will, I just had to sit down and read it. The facts are familiar so I won't review how this collection came into being. I will say that the authors are uniformly excellent writers, each with a distinctive voice that makes reading these bland, exciting, informative, funny, pitiful, infuriating essays worth my time. Vince Passaro, author of the essay which hooked me, sounds just like what he is, a writer for Esquire and GQ. HIs essay, as well as those by Hank Pine [My Marriage, My Affairs - His Story], Trey Ellis [Father of the Year], Robert Skates [The Hole in the Window: A View of Divorce], and Toure [An Invitation to Carnal Russian Roulette] all kept me turning pages until I had consumed the entire volume. And consume it I did, in one sitting, with a tall cold glass of something brown and sparkling, and no shoes anywhere nearby.
What didn't I like? Well, the writers are all clearly educated, from a certain mental socio-economic class which does slant these essays in a particular direction. The writing is so glittering, a kind of polish that even editing can't provide to the struggling writer. So the perspectives are tinged with wealth, education, culture, exposure, ability - money. Which is fine, but it leaves out the other male perspectives, like guys who ae as poor as hell. Although Toure describes himself as poor in his essay, he is only poor financially. I would have enjoyed reading essays by some different kinds of men. Or perhaps that is the lesson of this book, that men are men with the same issues regardless of income or social class. Cow patties!
Not bad, and certainly light enough reading for a summer afternoon.
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