Merrill Markoe's Guide to Love (Paperback)

~ (Author) "IT SEEMS LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD IS OBSESSED WITH LOVE, ALTHOUGH no one can really agree what it actually is..." (more)
Key Phrases: love channeler, astral lover, cookie time, Pat Allen, John Gray, Marriage Day (more...)

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Amazon.com Review

Merrill Markoe did the world a favor when she wrote her Guide to Love, providing insight on important issues such as "How to Turn a Man Into Putty in Your Hands" and under what conditions one wears horse hairs clipped to one's pubic curls. Covering pheromones to flirting, and with the inside dirt on a men's seduction course and a women's seminar on blow-jobs, Markoe exposes, as it were, the market that's sprung up to help the lovelorn. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly

Partly a spoof on guides to romantic relationships, Markoe's look at love and sex in the 1990s is often tiresome, sometimes wickedly funny and occasionally hilarious. Roughly one-third of the 21 selections appeared in New Woman. Writing with a keen sense of the ridiculous honed by her own checkered love life, Markoe, a columnist for Buzz and New Woman, offers witty takes on marriage, flirtation and screwed-up relationships. She exposes the inanity of much self-help advice as she reports on seminars and weekend retreats she's attended in the Los Angeles area on the art of seduction, the fine points of oral sex, finding one's soul mate and how to appeal to the opposite sex. She distills tongue-in-cheek lessons from Hollywood romantic movies and brings sharp feminist humor to her discussion of dating rituals and men's fixation with scoring and with body parts. But much of her counsel reads like a stand-up comic's scattershot monologue.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (January 8, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871137062
• ISBN-13: 978-0871137067
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,223,378 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious look at the eternal search for love, February 20, 2002

By	D. Movahedpour "doeadear" (CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The always-witty Merrill Markoe tells it like it is in her search through the quagmire of love in the modern world. She attends a seminar on giving the ultimate fellatio; she sees a psychic, joins a dating club...all in search of the answers..., but getting to that conclusion is one of the wittiest, most sarcastic journeys you will ever take.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funniest true book on love in the known universe, July 26, 2004

By	Merrill Markoe (Tacoma ,Washington) - See all my reviews

I always wondered what was going on in all those classes that claim teach love technique and ways to attract the opposite sex. In this book Merrill Markoe attends a bunch of them and draws a hilarious portrait of the people who attend, as well as the so called lesson plans. Merrill Markoe makes me laugh. SHe has such a great eye for detail and along the way there are some theoretically useful tips. Read this book and you don't have to buy the next ten new books on this subject.

0 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If nothing else ..., December 3, 2003

By	N. Pai (Seattle, Wa, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this book will definitely entertain you. Buy a used copy and read it when you have absolutely nothing to do and then sell it back on amazon.com market place realizing that you could have made a better use of your time reading some other book.