The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide To Life and Love

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Summary: I loved your book so much, Dr. Drew!
Review: Has anyone else noticed how submissive Drew is around Adam? Oh, I see some other Amazon reviewers have also noticed this. Like when Adam calls Drew his b*tch or talks like they're gonna set up house together, Drew acts like he kinda LIKES the idea, even as he pretends (not very convincingly) to be repulsed. It is so obvious from listening to the show for years that the repressed little "good boy" Drew is a little afraid of and turned on by this rough-trade former boxer and construction worker who has muscled in and taken over his radio show. I think that deep down the nice, clean, prissy doctor wants this crude, hairy, surly "guy's guy" to take him where he really wants to go anyway, but Drew's just too much of a puss to acknowledge his latent feelings and go with his secret desires. Drew wants to be taken. And Adam needs to do it. Then maybe the two of them will finally be able to relax and do some real healing on the air. That's what I think.

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Summary: Burned-Out Hosts Need to Retire
Review: I used to listen to Adam and Drew's radio show quite a lot. But over the years the hosts have grown more and more arrogant and irrelevant. I think the problem is that Adam Carolla acquired a horde of 14-year-old worshippers who hang on his every word and think he's the smartest, funniest person who ever lived. After having his ego stroked for so long and being applauded for dumping on his servile, masochistic fans, Adam has become extremely egotistical and cruel.

One might expect the co-host, Dr. Drew Pinsky, to counteract his partner's egotism and nastiness, but he tries to imitate it instead. Where once Dr. Pinsky would give thoughtful, considerate advice, now he is even more dismissive and snotty than his shock-jock sidekick. It's as if each were trying to outdo the other in vanity and contempt for their fans. Loveline has ceased to be helpful and has now become another depressing example of the new Humiliation Entertainment that has infected our media.

This book is simply a hasty transcription of some of Adam and Drew's canned routines. As another reviewer has said, it looks even worse in print: stale, stupid, and meanspirited.

Adam and Drew, please retire and let someone else who isn't so burned out and contemptuous try to help the troubled kinds who are foolish enough to ask you for advice, under the mistaken impression that you actually care about them.


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Summary: Amazing
Review: I occasionally listen to Adam and Drew's radio show, but not as much as I used to. Their schtick gets pretty tiresome after a few months. This book, which I picked up at a used bookstore for $1.50, collects many of their best-known routines. If you have some kind of adolescent crush on either of these guys, you might like it. It's really nothing more than a quickie production carelessly thrown together to make quick buck off Loveline's silly teenaged fans. If, however, you are looking for some useful medical information that's intelligently written and coherently put together...well, you are sh*t out of luck here. Eventually, Adam and Drew's fans grow up and move out into the real world and discover that life is a little more complicated than the crude ideas purveyed by these smug, immature entertainers.