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How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway [Hardcover]

W. Bruce Cameron (Author)
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August 26, 2004
Current research suggests there is a large group of people who have been trying to change men. For want of a better term, let's call these people "women."

Their urge is understandable. We've all had to take measures to accommodate men, because they are involved in nearly every aspect of modern life except maybe housework and they like to run things like corporate meetings and the planet. The only other alternative has been to try to avoid men altogether, which is pretty hard to do if you are interested in stuff like reproduction or having your oil changed.

That's why How to Remodel a Man is so indispensable-it is a clear, step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to alter the character and behavior of a man, written by an actual man. Author W. Bruce Cameron provides startling insight into male pattern thinking, explaining why men can open a refrigerator and not see the mayonnaise, or how it is that they can throw dirty clothes at the hamper or in front of the hamper or even on top of the hamper and yet not seem capable of getting any of it in the hamper.

Normally, changing a man has certain obstacles, including, but not limited to, the fact that it is impossible. But Cameron is able to overcome this hindrance because he, himself, has been remodeled. In a move so bold it may be shocking to people unaccustomed to such personal courage, Cameron turned himself over to the women in his life and asked them to change him. It started with a list of his flaws (Cameron came up with four; the women came up with one hundred seventy eight) and ended with him writing How to Remodel a Man, so that others could learn from his experience.

If you're a woman, you'll be amazed to learn that men can be trained to perform all sorts of tricks, like using the instruments on the sides of their heads (the ears) to listen to you, and the space between those instruments to think about you.

If you're a man, you've been given this book so that you'll see that it's possible to watch television without holding the remote or to ask for directions from strangers without suffering a catastrophic loss of testosterone. Cameron changed, and you can too.

How to Remodel a Man is the essential guide for anyone in the awkward position of having to interact with a person of the male gender.

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Humor columnist Cameron follows his bestselling 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2001) with a somewhat scrambled but goofily satisfying parody of inspirational how-to books. While warning women that effecting real change in their men is nigh impossible ("Attempting to modify a man's behavior is like trying to talk cats into playing the tuba—even if you can convince them to put their lips on the thing, they'll never understand why"), he does offer plenty of tongue-in-cheek hints: to get a man to exercise, for example, buy him cool new gear; to cope with a man who snores, "teach yourself to snore back in self-defense." As an ostensibly "Changed Man" himself, Cameron is free to paint a comically unflattering portrait of male behavior in sections such as "Male's Verbal Skills Are Slow To Develop, and Then They Stop." In other words, men are idiots, and Cameron offers numerous funny takes on that thesis—only some of which might sound familiar to readers of Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys, a classic comic take on the male psyche.
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“W. Bruce Cameron is the Dave Barry of modern family life.”—John Temple, Rocky Mountain News
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (August 26, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 031233317X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312333171
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,326,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh Out Loud <LOL>, December 9, 2004
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Kipsy Marlowe "mkp" (Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway (Hardcover)
<LOL!> Buy this book ONLY if you want to "Laugh Out Loud." It has page after page of hilarious "helpful hints" -- ammunition for the ongoing battle of the sexes -- presented in a sillier, softer format, yet with a sly masculine slant. Chock-ful of light-hearted answers to everyday questions, like why a guy would want to go to a ball game in the snow wearing nothing but green greasepaint, the amusing text turns turns guff into guffaw. The author's comparison to the "map of Wyoming" is a pretty astute observation about what really goes on inside the male brain. On the flipside, the over-the-top mirth level takes some of the pain out of how much giving birth really hurts. Each chapter gets funnier. Presented ingenuously, the Seinfeld-like absurdity of everyday gender-specific topics forces readers to remind ourselves to laugh at/with, rather than leave, the significant other. I laughed so hard at the teaching the dog not to fart part that I dropped the book, and found my page again somewhere between wry and "way-witty." This writer is not just hilarious, he's absolutely hysterical! This Cameron dude takes humor writing to a whole new level. There's only one drawback: Jolly as it is, reading this book is a teensy bit sad because it makes you miss Erma Bombeck's newspaper column. I wish he would write a column for the major syndicates so we could pick up the newspaper and have a new laugh every day.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still chuckling, October 14, 2004
This review is from: How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway (Hardcover)
My wife kept laughing out loud while reading this book. I repeatedly asked to "borrow" it, but she had to share it with all her friends first. I finally had to buy my own copy! And I find myself laughing (at least chuckling) over Cameron's unique
and sort of crazy sense of humor.
I don't think I'm ready for remodeling (don't ask my wife), but I recognize myself on almost every page. I'm just macho enough to consider my traits "endearing."
Would like to see a sequel about remodeling a woman !!
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 would be closer...it's pretty good, October 4, 2004
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J. C Clark "eanna" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway (Hardcover)
Do you get Bruce's e-mail newsletter? Have you read his former book? Then this book will be familiar, possibly a tad too familiar. While there is much to like, and even many laugh-out-loud moments, there is also a feeling that the new, Hollywood Bruce has misplaced the family soul that once made his writing so delightful. Divorced from the wife that played such an important role in his previous writing, living in LA and working as a writer on the show 8 Rules, Bruce has made it. And also lost it. There is a pervasive feeling throughout this book of "product", something created and packaged and marketed by the same people who make all those movies about people I've never met, doing jobs that look nothing like reality. Yes, humans play the roles, and quite likely humans even wrote the stories, but those humans are unlike those who live elsewhere on this planet. Good imitations, but synthetic nevertheless.

The best writing, the stuff that demonstrates Bruce is an author and not just a humorist, is not the contrived and goofy discussions with his man pals, funny though they sometimes are, but the writing about his youthful longings and painful struggles at Teen Town. That was excellent. Good, solid, heartfelt writing. Wish there'd been more.

Bruce is a funny guy, quotable, clever, and adept at playing the Woody Allen "I hit him in the knee with my groin" kind of humor. But a little of that goes a long way for me, and this book exceeds "little" by quite a distance. So, while lots to enjoy in this book, it feels much less "real" than his earlier work.

And to those who quibble that Bruce is not Dave Barry. Well, he's not. And Dave Barry's not Jerome K. Jerome. So what? Either a guy is good, or not. Dave can be very funny (and can be pretty lame as well.) So can Bruce. Enjoy it for what it is.
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