Women May Be from Venus...But Men Are Really from Uranus: A Parody of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus and Other John Gray Books (Paperback)

~ Katherine Black (Author), Peter J. Welling (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: 1st Books Library (December 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587219867
• ISBN-13: 978-1587219863
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,323,530 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Come out of the Cave Dr. G., February 28, 2001

By	Allison Garret Springer (Fishers, Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews

I have shared my now tattered and torn copy with both men and women and I have never seen a book devoured so quickly by every reader who handles it. Gift giving is a forte of mine and I can think of a dozen people who need this book. After reading Black's book, Gray will wave the white flag.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Skewering the Self Help Ninnies, March 17, 2003

By	Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Though author Katherine Black aims her outrageously funny "Women May be from Venus, but Men are Really from Uranus" at Dr. John Gray's inane "Venus and Mars" relationship self help series, her target could in fact be the whole of the self help industry. Granted, Black is taking aim at an enormous and very slow moving target, but she possesses the rhetorical equivalent of a howitzer in the way she blasts every aspect of Gray's psycho-babble to smithereens. It is sort of like what would happen if George Carlin took on Dr. Phil in a no holds barred debate.

Black structures her book just like any self help tome you see on the shelves. The chapters are short, lest she test her (daytime television watching) audience's short attention span. There are plenty of meaningless "lists" and the print is nice an large so you can feel like you've accomplished something by reading lots of pages in a short amount of time. The book is also peppered with a generous portion of amusing illustrations by Peter J. Welling. Even if you've never read a self help book before and can't imagine ever reading one, you'll find plenty to laugh at.

Overall, a quick and humorous read that is a perfect and long overdue satire.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well written, funny, informative, greatly illustrated, April 2, 2001

By	Fran Husk (Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews

I bought this book as a gag gift for a friend of mine who is a Dr. Gray disciple. My friend will have to wait for me to get her another copy because I just can't put this book down!

There's so much humor in this book that it's hard to believe the author isn't a national comedienne. Every single page is full of the best one-liners I have ever seen written and compiled in a single source. It's not just roll on the floor laughter but also highly entertaining. There must be 50 illustrations throughout the book to help the reader understand the point being made in the male/female relationship.

It's an amazingly clever piece of writing. I don't know why the national media hasn't picked up on it because this is as good as anything written by nationally known humorists.