megmermaid's review
1.0
Eh. I'd hoped this was going to be hilarious and insightful, but all the humor was pretty much the same thing all the way through--low-grade irony and drab self-flagellation. Along with extreme amounts of bigotry and sexism. DO BETTER MALE COMEDIANS.
chelseaknits's review
2.0
There were a couple of okay essays, but on the whole they were very bland.
violetpretty5's review
4.0
Some laugh out loud funny essays about relationship hell from a variety of comics and public figures...what I appreciated about it is that the overall tone wasn't particularly misogynistic, whiny, or cynical, which it easily could have been given the subject matter.
rovertoak's review
3.0
I was hoping for more laugh-out-loud stories, and while there were many smiles, I ended up feeling a little down -- these are stories wrought with insecurities, damages, and regrets written within plenty of self-deprecation -- It had me, and will have others (guys and girls), reflecting on past romances that left their psychological welts and fond memories behind.
jodiwilldare's review
1.0
# That Wolfdogg will probably have his suggestion rights for Rock and Roll Bookclub revoked again. His rights were revoked sometime in June of 07 because he suggested A Boy Called Freebird, a book so heinous and unreadable that I didn’t make it past page 40.
# Just because someone writes something funny for TV (Will Forte, Stephen Colbert, Andy Richter, et. al.) does not mean they can write a funny, fresh, uncliched essay about dating or relationships.
# I really don’t like Neal Pollack’s writing.
# You don’t need to know the difference between losing/loosing or couldn’t care less and could care less to get an essay published in this book.
Read the rest.
# Just because someone writes something funny for TV (Will Forte, Stephen Colbert, Andy Richter, et. al.) does not mean they can write a funny, fresh, uncliched essay about dating or relationships.
# I really don’t like Neal Pollack’s writing.
# You don’t need to know the difference between losing/loosing or couldn’t care less and could care less to get an essay published in this book.
Read the rest.
trin's review
3.0
The former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report edits a collection of essays/stories that for the most part aren’t lessons so much as accounts of guys being stupid about sex and/or love. And for the most part, they’re pretty funny. [author: Nick Hornby]’s introduction had me laughing aloud, and there were plenty of other hilarious moments (although I was kind of disappointed by [author: Stephen Colbert]’s entry, which was a one-gag piece). I think Karlin did a good job of mostly not letting things stray toward the nasty or the misogynistic; [author: Dan Savage]’s piece about how he discovered he was not that keen on vaginas is probably the most squirm-worthy, but hey, it’s 1) by Dan Savage, 2) entitled “I Am a Gay Man,” and 3) still disclaimer-heavy. With the mood the internet is currently in (and I’m including myself here), this may not be the best book to pick up—Open Source and some incidents at work have kind of put men on thin ice with me at the moment—but when I read it, I enjoyed it and had some laughs, so. Guys, maybe if you stop being assholes, I can enjoy sex-related humor again! WORK ON THAT KTHX.
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