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

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<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.

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 !!

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.

I was in desperate need of a good laugh when I picked up this book, and it truly did the trick. It allowed me to laugh at the differences between men and women, instead of taking them so darn seriously. While the narrator is truly clueless, Bruce Cameron is obviously NOT. He gets men, women and he urges all of us to laugh instead of overanalyze, nag and nit-pick. It helps to be reminded that men are silly creatures with hearts of gold.

Laughed until I cried...can't decide which I like better, his meetings with his children in 8 Simple Rules or this book, which talks about men's inability to ask for directions, find things in the fridge, etc. Great book to read a little each night before bed or to give as a gift. What a great Christmas present for DAD, HUSBAND, BOYFRIEND, ADULT SON, Etc. I can't wait for his next one.

I loved this book because it made fun of guys, but made me like guys all the more in the end. It seems like so often these books are written by women who don't like guys very much and they leave me feeling sad.

Also, it is so full of laugh out loud hilarious stuff that my husband kept grabbing it away from me in bed, because I kept laughing so hard. What was great was that he thought all the stuff about what goofballs men are was funny too!

Every woman dreams of actual being able to remodel their man, and surprisingly this book actually provides some insights into the way men think that could help you get along with your guy better. But in the end, I liked the message that the best way to get a guy to act the way you'd like is to love him, and then he'll automatically want to try and please you.

Everybody always wants to bash men, but because this writer is so brutally honest about his own bad habits and flaws, it kind of made me see the guy's side of the picture. It also seems like he genuinely likes women, and thinks we are more evolved, which is of course true.

I think this book would be a great gift for a girlfriend whose just gone through a breakup, because in the end, it would make her feel that no way is the perfect guy out there, but a real guy is out there, and real guys aren't perfect, but they are doing their best, flawed creatures that they are.

Tired of War and Peace and want/need some fun, humorous reading? Read this book then! Page by page, the author highlights very funny facts about men that my male friends really do tell me they associate with and even find funny! My girlfriends think the book is hysterical and they make great gifts for book club or an easy read.......but only if you want to laugh!

I'm not even finished with the book yet but it's my all-time favorite of all books - and I thought 8 Simple Rules was great!

Laughter is good medicine, but since I not only want this rich medicine to last, I also don't want to "OD" on it, so I'm only allowing myself no more than two chapters at a time; besides, I wind up reading each chapter twice, since my husband's constantly asking what's so funny as he watches me almost fall out of the chair as I'm loudly giggling...so I wind up reading it aloud to him through giggly snorts.

My husband normally doesn't think much stuff is funny if it could be construed as male-bashing, but even he gets a big belly laugh at most of the things Bruce writes, because they're so darned typical. Cameron's style of writing makes all the difference in the world, as it's obvious he's having way too much fun with this himself.

I'm trying to figure out how to make this one last until Bruce's next book comes out ... hurry Bruce, will you?

...I'd even settle for another TV series until the next book comes along - 8 Simple Rules is my favorite one now!

If you only have twenty dollars left in the world, buy this book! I have not laughed this much in my entire life. Lest you think it is just entertainment, this an educational book that should be required reading before graduating from high school for everyone. I am sending this to my friends, relatives, exboyfriends and the like!

...it's a very special and VERY funny book. HOW TO REMODEL A MAN is terrific -- funny and observant and sharp, and surprisingly sweet as well. I was fond of both the hapless "hero" and his cadre of helpers, especially Sarah.