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The Guy's Guide to Dating, Getting Hitched, and Surviving the First Year of Marriage

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This book, along with ALL other books written by Michael Crider, is just hysterical. It had me laughing out loud the whole time. I had to go back and read it again when I was done.. it's just TOO funny. It's not all humor though.. it actually does give you some good insight into the mind of a man and the way they think. Just really an overall GREAT book!

What a refreshingly funny book! I bought this for my fiancee and I ended up reading it myself. Truly honest, funny and insightful. I know when we get pregnant I'll have to buy the other book!

Crider tackles a topic that's been tackled by many others, who have done so to far better effect. (Thurber and White's "Is Sex Necessary?" comes to mind.) This tome (originally titled "The Slow and Inevitable Crawl Toward Happily Ever After") is, alas, not in the same ballpark with Thurber, much less Greene, Erma Bombeck, or lesser comedic lights. This is a so-so rehash of all the usual stuff, with Crider trotting out every cliche you can imagine, from the obsessive girlfriend to the knuckle dragging, beer sucking, clueless male. Every once in awhile he manages to wring a laugh out of this over-exploited topic, but not enough for my taste. You want funny relationship stuff? Read Dorothy Parker...read Cynthia Heimel...read Nora Ephron...hell, read Thurber! But don't read this.

This book is absolutely hysterical. I bought it for my brother, who read it so quickly that I decided it must be good (he never reads anything). It is a hilarious look into the honest mind of a man who has been there and done that in the dating, engagement and marriage world. I would not ony recommend this book for any single or engaged man out there, but for the women who love them. Reading this book is like having a secret, mind-reading power of the males species, making it worth every cent. And if you're married, check out his other book, "The Guy's Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Year of Fatherhood"--another fabulously entertaining and enlightening read!