- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Pease International Pty (2001)
- ISBN-10: 0957810814
- ISBN-13: 978-0957810815
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 305,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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71 of 78 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Forget Men are from Mars - this is what you really want to / need to know. It will not only help you understand your own and your partner's behaviour, but will give you endless hours of conversation and debate next time you're in the pub! It's not one of those boring, dull relationship books, and does not set out to prove one sex is better than the other - merely that both sexes are different, despite modern society and political correctness trying to suggest that we are more similar than we really are. In fact, according to the book, it will take evolution a million years to catch up with moden society!
Having endured a few jibes from my male friends for reading a 'bird's book', they have now seen their girlfriends reading it after my recommendation and are now reading the book themselves! I must have sold dozens of copies of this book just by talking about it with people!
It's easy to read, addictive and humourous. I guarantee that you won't have another conversation with a member of the opposite sex without thinking about this book!
Buy it and read it NOW!!!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think that if Sherlock Holmes had read this book, he'd have said. "It's obvious that we have here a couple where the wife can't drive or park a car, but on the other hand her husband is not aware that she's been sleeping with the plumber for the last few years. Elementary, Watson."
At least when I read the part when this poor guy goes on and on about women's weak sex drive, I though, yeah right, maybe if she tells you every night that she has a headache the problem isn't female sex drive, it's you.
On the other hand, I gave the book three stars because it's fun light reading, nothing more serious than a book-long Cosmopolitan article, and the cartoons are funny.
58 of 66 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An entertaining book, fine for a bathroom or train read. As mentioned by some reviewers already, this is a mixture of scientific studies on brain differences between men and women and the author's freely interspersed anecdotes, opinions and observations. A critical reader should be able to discern which is which.
I found a number of outright errors in the book. For example, "There are many more left-handed women." In fact, about 10% more men than women are left-handed. I also found innumerable sweeping statements like the following.
- "Until recently, women tended to be pregnant most of the time."
- "80% of all human societies have been [promiscuous] for most of human existence."
- "Until the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the 1950s, no-one noticed that women had emotional highs and lows."
- "Throughout human history, wars greatly diminished the numbers of men...so creating a harem for the returning males was an effective survival strategy"
- "Girls were a disappointment because the tribe invariably had an excess of females. This is the way it was for hundreds of thousands of years."
Unsubstantiated, unsubstantiatable, or just plain wrong. I mean, do we know how homo erectus greeted the birth of a girl? War may have diminished the numbers of men during specific time periods, but I think one could certainly make a case that childbearing had a much greater effect on female life expectancy than war did on male life expectancy. I haven't seen any anthropological references to modern hunter-gatherer groups with harems. What is "promiscuous"? Where are these societies? Who counted them?
I also found objectionable the running thread of "man the hunter" and the faulty logic that connected all male behaviour to this one supposed fact. Why, for example, do men need distance vision to hunt, but not peripheral vision to watch for predators? Men just want to have a "few pelvic thrusts" because they must always be on guard against attack. Primates living in the wild seem to have time for courting behaviour, even with watching for predators. And, wouldn't the women have to be on guard as well in this relentlessly hostile environment? Why aren't a few pelvic thrusts enough to satisfy them?
While it was sometimes amusing, and the brain research material was interesting, I found this book more irritating than enlightening.
I found a number of outright errors in the book. For example, "There are many more left-handed women." In fact, about 10% more men than women are left-handed. I also found innumerable sweeping statements like the following.
- "Until recently, women tended to be pregnant most of the time."
- "80% of all human societies have been [promiscuous] for most of human existence."
- "Until the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the 1950s, no-one noticed that women had emotional highs and lows."
- "Throughout human history, wars greatly diminished the numbers of men...so creating a harem for the returning males was an effective survival strategy"
- "Girls were a disappointment because the tribe invariably had an excess of females. This is the way it was for hundreds of thousands of years."
Unsubstantiated, unsubstantiatable, or just plain wrong. I mean, do we know how homo erectus greeted the birth of a girl? War may have diminished the numbers of men during specific time periods, but I think one could certainly make a case that childbearing had a much greater effect on female life expectancy than war did on male life expectancy. I haven't seen any anthropological references to modern hunter-gatherer groups with harems. What is "promiscuous"? Where are these societies? Who counted them?
I also found objectionable the running thread of "man the hunter" and the faulty logic that connected all male behaviour to this one supposed fact. Why, for example, do men need distance vision to hunt, but not peripheral vision to watch for predators? Men just want to have a "few pelvic thrusts" because they must always be on guard against attack. Primates living in the wild seem to have time for courting behaviour, even with watching for predators. And, wouldn't the women have to be on guard as well in this relentlessly hostile environment? Why aren't a few pelvic thrusts enough to satisfy them?
While it was sometimes amusing, and the brain research material was interesting, I found this book more irritating than enlightening.
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Quality book but too anti men
Overall the book gives some good insight into male and female modern day behaviour. I would have given this review 5 stars but because the book is written in such an anti-male... Read more
Published 1 month ago by VK
a must have for all couples
We bought this book while having problems and it really helped us work through them. It's a light hearted and easy read but still manages to impart in depth understanding and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Helen Lynch
Ah, so that's why?
Having read "Men Mars Women Venus" I found this book a good compliment to it. For me, being from Mars, the reasons described in this book for the way men and women developed going... Read more
Published 3 months ago by David Harper
A must read for anyone contemplating marriage.
A friend told me about this book and was so enthused I had to buy it. I can honestly say that it is the first book I have ever read that clearly demonstrates the fundamental... Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Harwood
Read it years ago and still remember it!
This is one of a few books that I remember from years ago and still quote. I found it a fasinating read. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mrs. N. DURRANT
funny and yet very seerious account of how man and woman evolved
This is a hilarious and yet at the same time very serious book about the eternal problem of man and woman. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Carno Polo
interesting read
If you have ever wondered about the less obvious differences between men and women then this is the book for you. Both fascinating and funny. A recommended read
Published 4 months ago by henrietta
Why men dont listen and woman cant read maps
This book is very imformative better then men from mars and woman from venus. it really does explain we are made different . Wish i had read it years ago .
Published 5 months ago by bridget
Good fun!
This is a great book! I bought it for myself a few years ago and have lent it to many friends who have had equal laughs at it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mrs. K. Huddleston
Every couple should read this
Amasing- this should be on the national curriculum. So many people fail to understand that men and women are fundamentally different and more importantly why. Read more
Published 12 months ago by dpo
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