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A Guy's Guide to Dating: Everything You Need to Know About Love, Sex, Relationships, and Other Things Too Terrible to Contemplate [Paperback]

Brendan Baber (Author), Eric Spitznagel (Author)
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January 20, 1998
Bachelorhood used to be something young men aspired to. A man alone was a man empowered. But not anymore. As we cross the threshold into the twenty-first century, the state of being stag has lost its luster.



In A Guy's Guide to Dating, Brendan Baber and Eric Spitznagel shepherd guys from ages thirteen to thirty through the murky waters of the modern dating pool and then escort them down the path to contemporary relationship nirvana, covering all the stages of masculine romantic development. Topics covered start at childhood with "Dating Your Mom (Early Lessons in Love)," "Hand Jive: The Jerk-Off Years," then move on to "High School Confidential: An Introduction to the 16-Year-Old Girl," "Higher Learning (or How to Spend $15,000 a Year to Get Stoned, Date Lesbians, Argue with Feminists, and Contract Herpes," and then end up with "Commitment and Other Things That Scare the @#%! Outta Us" and "The M Word." Readers can say they are buying it for the most hilarious testosterone-tinged humor in a generation-when in fact many of them will pick it up for the genuinely practical, sane, intelligent dating advice.



A brash, sidesplitting guide through the pitfalls of modern romance, modern women, modern etiquette, and good old-fashioned lust, A Guy's Guide to Dating explains the art of finding women and then snaring them '90s style. This is a book no single man will want to be without, and no single woman will be able to resist buying for the men in her life.

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A Guy's Guide to Dating is tough to categorize. On one hand, it's clearly a guy's book, full of irreverent man-to-man advice about sex and dating through all stages of life (the college section includes a chart titled "The Top 10 Reasons You May Suspect You're Gay," one of which is "dancing too damn well"). On the other, it doesn't contain a lot of information that average guys won't already know or intuitively understand. For that reason, it may make more sense to recommend it to women who remain bewildered by the sweatier gender; however, anyone who reads A Guy's Guide to Dating will find something to laugh at. Even the dedication ("this is for all our dead homies") is funny.

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While you wouldn't want to be caught dead reading either of these titles on the subway, they offer a study in contrasts. Baber and Spitznagel seem to have set out to produce a humorous look at dating and mating, but they deliver a boorish effort that will confirm a lot of women's worst fears about male dating behavior. While some might think that the "humor book" caveat makes everything okay, the overall Beavis-and-Butthead approach to the subject?which is, less dating and more sex in these authors' minds?provides little in the laughs department. Men and women should avoid this book like a blind date with a cold sore, and libraries can pass. By contrast and in keeping with the excellent "For Dummies" treatment of complicated subjects, psychologist Browne's book offers a professional, insightful, and very readable examination of dating?real dating. Browne covers every aspect of the basic mechanics of dating in the 1990s, from making your own personal inventory to help you discover who you are and what you want, to finding appropriate people to date, to actually conducting dates at various stages of relationship development. Nothing seems to be missed by Browne: she tackles breaking up, sex, and even the darker sides of dating, like rape and stalking. This excellent book's biggest drawback for libraries is its numerous "work form" sections, an invitation to certain patrons to make it their own. But Dating for Dummies is worth the risk; recommended for all public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib, Boston
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Main Street Books; 1 edition (January 20, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385485530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385485531
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,046,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the humor value, July 11, 1999
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This book is more humorous than it is useful. Those looking for actual useful advice should look elsewhere. However as a light, quick read for the humor, it's good. It's not that the book is wrong; actually many of the tips and experiences are far too real. It just doesn't give any really practical advice on what to do about it all.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Funny but not really useful, May 3, 1999
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The guys who wrote this book go more for the laughs than providing real-world advice. Funny book, but if you're seeking serious advice, this is not it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift, January 19, 2000
This review is from: A Guy's Guide to Dating: Everything You Need to Know About Love, Sex, Relationships, and Other Things Too Terrible to Contemplate (Paperback)
This book is a great gift for any single guy. It's indeed hilarious, yet much of the advice is remarkably to the point. I gave it to my college age brother, and it has become a "dating bible" for him and buddies. Bravo Spitznagel and Baber!
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