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Unzipped: What Happens When Friends Talk About Sex--A True Story

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Utterly contemporary, intelligent and witty, Courtney Weaver's "Unzipped" is a delicious page-turner. Sex and mating rituals are explored with a clear, ironic eye, and though she boldly mines her friends' private lives, I never had the feeling she was exploiting them. As she reports from the front about what it's like to be a single woman in today's confusing world, she comes across as strong yet vulnerable, charming and good-humored. She is also pitiless and self-deprecating in chronicling her own neuroses, which makes her all the more endearing. Telephone dispatches from her diverse friends, from San Francisco to New York to London, were endlessly fascinating installments of their latest dramas. I've already given the book to two of my girlfriends and they also enjoyed it enormously. Weaver's fresh, insightful voice made me eager to read a follow-up.

In the past, I have read Weaver's column in Salon and roared with laughter and sometimes recognition. Now she has finally gotten between hard cover (no pun intended) and we all get to enjoy her wit and intelligence. The New York Times said it true when they called her charming -- she is. Yet she also nimbly transcends the glib and offers an empathic look at the tangled world in which we triumph, frolic, and sometimes flail. Buy this book for every woman you know with a brain and a sense of humor. I await her next work with anticipation....

Reading Unzipped is like following someone around for awhile and just observing their life. It's written in a Helen Fielding/Brigit Jones type format although not as funny but interesting just the same. It's basically a bunch of girlfriends, some married some not talking about sex or lack there of. It's honest and sometimes a bit shocking,(as with main character Courtney's friend who leaves her husband to become a slave in the S & M culture) It's a very easy, fun read.

Courtney Weaver's wry humor about the benefits and disadvantages of the singleton's condition is a delicious tonic. From the first page I was hooked into her female friends' diverse, funny, and sometimes appalling love lives. It's gratifying to read such an intelligent and insightful account of what real women think and talk about, and have a good belly laugh about it at the same time. The characters and their problems are easy to identify with, and it's a book that I feel all of my girlfriends would be happy to have.

A fun quick read. Very titillating with an interesting cast of characters which are real people. From the male perspective, I found this book delivered some excellent insight into relationship (and sexual) dilemmas. Also, it was light on the psycho-babble and offered meaty, if a little oversexed, observations. A must read if you want a better understanding of your date/flame.

A really great and fast read. I loved it. It's really well written and amazing frank and funny. It's a great book to take to the beach or spend a lazy Sunday reading.

This book is funny and charming and as I was reading, it seemedobvious that Courtney Weaver was the model for Carrie in HBO's series"Sex and The City." If you enjoy that show, you will enjoy this book immensely. Weaver writes in a breezy, conversational style that is light and easy to read. The book isn't about sex, per se, although there are many references to it, but about relationships and being single in your 30's. Very enjoyable.

I picked this book up for the same reason that I pick up a Cosmo at the grocery store checkout every once in a while -- to get a flavor for what hip young women supposedly think about relationships and sex. I was not disappointed . . . at least at first.

I zipped through the first 100 or so pages, enthralled by the insidious, gossipy quality of it all. The wry humor was initially amusing but eventually began to wear on me. I think maybe it was just too much of something best imbibed in small portions. For example, I love "Seinfeld" but don't think I would be able to stand a feature-length movie starring those characters.

I think what soured me on the book in the end was the realization that I really didn't LIKE any of the characters. The women were all neurotic, self-obsessed, and shallow. The guys actually come off much better (which I DO NOT think was the author's intention) because they seem comfortable with who they are.

As a thirtyish guy who is suddenly "out there" after a failed ten-year marriage, I found this depiction of single life depressing. While I realize that it was at least partly fiction and probably intended as satire, its depiction of the relationship games that singles play (especially women) made me want to flee to a monastery.

I rarely pay hardcover prices but after accidentally catching a few minutes of Ms. Weaver at a local reading (I sat down and stayed until the end - as did many other browsers), I immediately bought three copies for friends. Her witty observations in Unzipped are not to be missed, and her unique vantage point affords us all a good seat in the human comedy. Treat yourself to this delightful debut....

An interesting non-fiction book on "the extraordinary sex lives of ordinary people".

Perhaps it's the openness in our society now, but I've failed to see what was so "extraordinary" about the sex lives of the people in the book.

Take Marie, a hairdresser who encouraged her husband to look for sex with others during her pregnancy, albeit jokingly, and got what she wanted. It is in my opinion that such things are happening all around us and that there is nothing shocking or alarming to it.

Guys and girls looking for a partner but at the same time sleeping around, women trying to find a husband and going through relationships that fail one after another; these are all nothing 'extraordinary'. I would think that the 'e' word was used with injustice for this book.

The main theme of the book is not about sex, but the role of it and how sex changes a relationship and the dating game.

I got tired of the book after awhile and there is nothing "funny" in it, as the backcover claimed. It is, however, fast moving but not an easy read.

Read this to help you get to sleep.