Still Hot: The Uncensored Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite, and Happily Ever After [Paperback]

Sue Mittenthal (Author), Linda Reing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 25, 2008

One day you log onto the computer and notice that your husband has a secret screen name: HotRod287. Next thing you know, black turtlenecks and a leather bomber jacket are his hip new signature look. And those long blonde hairs in his sports car? Sorry sweetie, but they’re not from your golden retriever. Because they have dark roots - under your magnifying glass.Still Hot is a completely hilarious and saucy survival guide that takes you from the first inkling that your marriage is toast to regaining your long-forgotten inner peace, and all the bizarre tragicomedy that comes in between.Throughout, you’ll get practical tips, like: how to trash those photos of your ex (Send his new babe all the shots that show more hair in his ears than on his head.) what to do if your bedroom seems vacant without him (Buy a giant fern.) creative ways to meet new men (Get a job in a urologist’s office.) invaluable first-date DONTs (Never call your divorce lawyer from the table.) Through checklists, quizzes, and wacky vignettes, you’ll recognize yourself on every page -- playing Internet solitaire on Saturday night, memorizing the generic name for Valium (diazepam), weeding out the geeks on match.com, and praying that your ex’s new babe’s implants will rupture. In a public place.Still Hot is the perfect girlfriend gift. Buy it for yourself, your friends, your sister, maybe even your mother - anyone, in fact, who could use a good laugh when she finds herself suddenly single.

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About the Author

Sue Mittenthal is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, Glamour, Family Circle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Readers Digest, and Consumer Reports. She is currently a freelance writer in New York. Linda Reing began practicing for a career as a standup comic at age seven. When she realized this would mean performing in front of an audience, she quickly changed gears, but has continued to embrace humor as her means of coping with the world. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Running Press; 1st edition (March 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762431121
• ISBN-13: 978-0762431120
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #983,234 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Hot: The Uncensored Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite, and Happily Ever After, May 5, 2008

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This review is from: Still Hot: The Uncensored Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite, and Happily Ever After (Paperback)

Divorce is probably one of the most traumatic events in a person's life: to have to separate from the one person that you have shared a serious amount of time and intimacies with and possibly had children with, is all about having to change habits, to reinvent oneself. The authors have managed to face this trauma with Humor (with a capital "H"), to get up after they were down, to face life head-on, and with laughter. I admire their strength, their fighting spirit. I know it was not easy, but "Still Hot" makes it look like they could handle anything - it's a terrific book, deep, human and fun. Enjoy.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars almost makes divorce seem fun....not really, May 5, 2008

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This review is from: Still Hot: The Uncensored Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite, and Happily Ever After (Paperback)

While in the midst of a divorce reading about it could seem like adding insult to injury. The authors here speak to women at their most vulnerable moment with a touch of humor and understanding that allows readers to open up and be able to take in some of the insight and advice the authors generously share. It's up there together with a best girlfriend giving support during a difficult time.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a MUST read whether you're divorced, married, or single - as long as you like to laugh!, May 1, 2008

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Roslyn Schwartz (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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I've picked the book up three times since I first read it - just to check out some of the anecdotes again, because I love to laugh! The authors nailed it. They don't preach; they don't wallow in self-pity. Life is too short for that. They just make you laugh hysterically, nodding your head at the truisms you're reading, and it doesn't matter a whit if you've never been divorced or even married for that matter. I don't think there's anyone who won't relate to this great book. It's not read it and weep. It's read it and laugh 'til tears stream down your face.