Couplehood (Mass Market Paperback)

by Paul Reiser (Author) "_Here's how I wake up..." (more)
Key Phrases: Paul Reiser, Poul Reiser

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
A popular standup comic's gentle riffs on the non-single state. Buy two -- one for yourself, one for your significant other -- and read them in bed together. If you laugh at the same parts, give yourselves two points; when you have 10,000 points, write to Paul Reiser and tell him what a great marriage you have and how funny his book is.

From Publishers Weekly
From the star of Mad About You, this look at love and romance spent 31 weeks on PW's bestseller list.
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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553573136
• ISBN-13: 978-0553573138
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #188,155 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!!, August 14, 2001

By	Ms Diva "cycworker" (Nanaimo, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews

I am a huge fan of Reiser, and I loved Mad About You. This book is a funny, gentle, warm look at the little joys and problems of marriage. I am not even married and I was laughing out loud every page. It was a quick read, and it was the kind of humor I like best - the kind with a serious message underneath. Best of all, the book is as funny on a second reading as it is the first time. A must read!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Buy for a Good Happy Laugh, June 23, 2005

By	Victoria Lynn (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This book is so funny you will want to buy it for all your happily married friends, single friends, divorced friends, gay friends, fighting married couple friends, your parents, your sisters, your brothers and any other friends/family you can think of just to spread the humor.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Funny, but only 10% about couples and relationships, July 8, 2002

By A Customer

I read this book thinking it would be about couples and the sometimes humorous ways they relate. Instead I got one sentence per chapter about a 'couple' issue and the rest of the chapter is about other life observations. It would have been much better if he just would have called it "Life Observations" - at least then I would know what I was in store for -- but maybe that would have been too Seinfeld.

Another reviewer wrote this book was so great on audio - I'm sure it is because all it seems like are transcripts from stand-up routines. I suspect that may be how the book was written - that's why it has no flow.

Anyway, I found it humorous in parts - but had to give it 2 stars because it had hardly anything to do with couples.