Amazon.com Review
Elaine Viets has managed to write a book that is funny, touching in places, forgiving, and realistic in a time when uptight, solemn "leaders" are telling us all about the virtues of monogamy and fidelity (while blithely ignoring the advice in their own hypocritical private lives). This is not a book to tell you how to have a perfect life, how to be happy every waking moment, or how to avoid pitfalls and problems. What it does convey is a good-humored and realistic way of examining your relationship to help you and your partner be faithful to each other, not as a duty or some moral imperative, but because it can be very satisfying, exciting, and a great deal of fun. Best argument I've ever heard!
From Library Journal
Syndicated columnist Viets has attempted to write on love, sex, and marriage in a comic, lighthearted tone. Unfortunately, what results is entertaining but hardly informative. Much of the text reads like a stand-up comic's barrage of one-liners, and the punch lines aren't even that funny. In the course of the book, Viets criticizes her parents' generation, wedding ceremonies, small-town communities, and Catholicism?and just about everything else, including herself. Alas, she usually sounds like a whining naysayer. She assumes a specific type of reader: women baby boomers who thought themselves liberated in their youth and who are now almost embarrassed by their present monogamy. Recommended mainly for readers who fit this description.?Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State University, Pullman
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