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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

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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.

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.

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!

I'll lead off with why I bought this book. I'd browsed it in the bookstore several times, giggling hysterically every time. One time, I left off after reading that after getting married, instead of going out, married couples had dinner parties, and instead of beer, they had wine and cheese.

I get home that evening. On my voice-mail is an invitation from a newly married friend, inviting me to a dinner party, and they'd provide the wine and cheese.

I bought this book the next day.

Honestly, this book really isn't that helpful. After all, you don't need to know how to handle the opposite sex in kindergarten by the time you can read this. However, their humor is insightful, clever, and extremely good. And, as a bonus, almost everything they say is true. You already know it, of course, one way or another, but it's still a good way of putting things.

Plus, it's the funniest book I've ever read. I highly recommend it.

While I did laugh at a lot of the things the authors brings up, none of it was really new to me. The authors also take the issue of STDs very lightly, something that it seems shouldn't be done in this day and age. There are other better books on the subject out there.

Loved this book! Picked it up in a used book Cafe in Soho and couldn't stop reading it. Two of the floor staff dialed 911 as they thought I was having a coronary, I was laughing so loud.

I came to this site because I couldn't locate their other title -- Planet Baywatch (although if you read their first page in the dating book, they take credit for everything from the bible to ...). Good book. Pick it up! It'll help you cope a little with your last date from hell!

I'm so sick of those dating books written by women, telling us guys how we should approach them, what to say, what not to say, etc. Hey, the women don't really know what's going on in the male psyche! If they only knew the hell of rejection! They just sit back and sift through the offers. We have to do all of the initial work, and that means relying on our instincts and breaking "the rules" to make an impression. Its good to get a male perspective, but this book was a little too casual and silly for me. I wish it would have been a little more honest. There are some other issues--the primal issues--that men struggle with, ie. money and status, our self-esteem, a woman's looks, our sexual needs, which significantly affect the dating process and aren't taken seriously enough here. It was a fun read though.

Bought this as a gag gift for a recently divorced friend. It achieved its purpose. It comes across as a gag...maybe that was the author's idea. Written for the anti-social shy, petrified dork who has no chance with women. Maybe even more so after reading this book. It shares the occasional morsels of truth, but for the most part is written tongue in cheek. This book came out way before all the great PUA titles. Perhaps in its day it was a prize. If you find Mystery Method, et al to be too much to stomach, than give this one a try. Or maybe send it to a friend to make him feel hopeless. Worked for me.

Since having this book bought by a friend this is one of the successful books a guy can have to know and succeed his dating.

It's up to you to place a review on this book but I'm giving it 5 stars! =)

Was funny, cute, but really this book reminds me of the old phrase "everything I wanted to know I learned in kindergarden"...not worth the money.