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The Gay Man's Guide to Heterosexuality

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Buy two copies -- one for your bookself and one for your medicine cabinet. It's the perfect cure for all those headaches caused by, well you know, them. Bad day at the office? Read chapter 1 (overview). Sick of your favorite movie being pre-empted by the...playoffs? Is that what they call them?...Read chapter 7 (sports). Nauseated from a trip to the mall? Read chapter 6 (lifestyle). The strong of constitution may want to brave chapter 3 (mating habits). The section on the honeymoon is truly our Rosetta stone. I laughed so hard I nearly spewed latte!

O'Leary & Crimmins have done a marvelous job of sending up that terrifyingly odd collection of human beings called heterosexuals. This is a witty, sometimes cheeky and always funny poke into the ribs of straight America. And it's about time!

A Gay Man's Guide to Heterosexuality by C.E. Crimmins and Tom O'Leary. Besides being the #1 Best-Selling Gay & Lesbian Nonfiction Book in the US it's also a hoot beyond words. Virtually a sick and highly humorous explanation of those who begat us all, it's guaranteed to have you on the floor doubled over (not with your legs in the air) but this time with genuine gut laughter - - the kind you havent had since the early Woody Allen films. From the McCall's-type photo illustration on the cover through this humorous look at the strange habits of heterosexuals, this is the best beach-read of the summer! Or the perfect hostess gift! Anyway you look at het-life or at yourself you can't go wrong with a copy stuffed in your speedos on Fire Island, The Russian River, Key West Provincetown or Boys Town. A hit for all seasons, a palpable hit!

Hilarious! This book is a spot on send-up of the love that dare speak it's name---heterosexuality. My gay and straight friends alike have been falling out of their chairs, laughing. Congratulations!

My friends and I laughed until we lost our breath!
It's about time someone turned all of the gay stereotypes around and made fun of straights.
My favorite bit was about straight people inventing the television so they wouldn't have to go out at night. Loved the book! I sent one to my mother this morning!

This is one of those books that make you laugh outloud in the bookstore, on the drive home (careful!), in the tub with a glass of wine and at a dinner party with ten of the best and brightest in your group. Kudos to the duo who wrote it. Can't wait for the sequel!

Honestly, this book is a solid "B": definitely not an "A" and definitely not a "C" or lower. What is more amazing, however, is that Cathy Crimmins must have written it during her husband's recovery from a traumatic brain injury (See Crimmins's excellent "Where is the Mango Princess?" for an account of that). How should could have written this light-hearted fluff while going through that Hell is beyond me.

My lover bought me a car and this book for our tenth anniversary. I've enjoyed this book more than the car! It has kept me in stitches. (Me, my houseboy, the pool boy, my driver, my friends at the studio, the President of the Studio.) I can't wait to option this book. It will be a fabulous film! Brad and Gwyneth can re-unite for the lead roles! Kudos to the witty authors!

From "Ask Mr. Hetero" to "Mating Rituals: The Heterosexual Wedding and Its Aftermath," this book will embarrass you badly if you read it in public and suffer from a sense of humor. Send it to friends; you'll look like a genius.

But that's the only thing charming about this little clunker. If this is what passes for Gay wit these days, then Oscar Wilde, Ronald Firbank, Cole Porter, Talullah Bankhead and even Paul Linde have died in vain.