- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Flame; New edition edition (5 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340769033
- ISBN-13: 978-0340769034
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,327,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Reynard or Ren125733 is having an early-life crisis. His girlfriend has left him and all he has left is a sad life and even sadder screen name. By day a laughable actor; by night a virtual recluse with hours spent hunting female companionship on the World Wide Web. It is only when the rejection becomes too much that he undergoes the virtual sex change to become NuBiFem, the girl whose interests are "Online fun, offline frolics".
Attention from men and women comes flooding in, all wanting to meet the new girl in the chat room, but RoxiNYC is somehow different from the rest. It's not because she is the make-up artist from work whom he can't stop thinking about but because the pair have a special online chemistry that could never work in the flesh. Ren persuades his ex-girlfriend to be NuBiFem's physical presence but the plan backfires when the two become lovers and unfolds a not so much surprising tale but an online Cyrano De Bergerac.
Aside from the difficulty in being romantic on someone else's behalf, Ren discovers the threat of posing as a woman and thus suffers the revenge of the Viagra Snatch Squad, chat room terrorists who've had enough of devious men in their cyberspace. Despite all the romantic notions that love will conquer all, the finale does bring happiness in the most unexpected of ways but gladly doesn't follow the obvious route as it shakes up the classic love story for Internet junkies. --David Trueman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Ren is an underachieving actor and overactive dreamer who nurses an overwhelming passion for Roxi, the heaven-sent make-up artist on a cat food commercial from hell and a woman who is out of his league. Thwarted in his attempts to win her over in real life, Ren reinvents himself for her in the chat rooms of the Internet. And so begins a deception and brilliant comic confession of one man - and his mouse!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Roxanne reloaded,
By Danielle (Newcastle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Man or Mouse (Paperback)
This novel is an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, just like Steve Martin’s Roxanne. The story of a man trying to hide his gender (instead of his nose) to seduce the woman he loves is a great twist on a classic stage play. In fact, it’s the book itself that is dressed to appear as something different. It looks and feels pretty fluffy on the surface, but the themes of love and lies and honour are explored in depth. A deceptive read, just as Cyrano should be.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A bit darker than your average male love-crisis novel,
By Mr. Stuart Bruce "DonQuibeats" (Cardiff, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Man or Mouse (Paperback)
Matt Whyman is a magazine agony uncle and Man Or Mouse is his first novel (so says the blurb on the back cover) so I was expecting a fairly run-of-the-mill male mid-love-life-crisis novel, in the style of authors like Mike Gayle or at best Nick Hornby.
I was pleasantly surprised that this book is a bit darker than that. The story of Ren adopting a bi-sexual female personality online to try to meet women starts off as a bit farcical but there is a sinister vein that runs through it and gives it an edge that makes it worth reading. Some of the characters manage to surprise you, such as Ren's drug-dealing flower-selling friend, though many of the 'bit parts' are filled by stereotypes and cliches. The ending (I won't spoil it for you) is excellent. In a lot of books of this type you can see the happy ending coming a mile off but this one doesn't seem to be leading to an obvious resolution, but it does lead to an interesting one. Not a classic but a pretty good read.
2.0 out of 5 stars
A one-idea novel,
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This review is from: Man or Mouse (Paperback)
Sad loser loses girlfriend. Pretends to be a woman so he can chat up bisexual women in cyberspace; the connection with losing his girlfriend is tenuous at best. But what's he going to do if things get physical?
The only idea driving this novel seemed to be the assumed kick a man might get from participating in some virtual girl-on-girl action. That's not enough of an idea to drive a whole novel, and besides, to paraphrase Bill Hicks: if that's what you want, there are whole videos devoted to it. The narrator has a way of referring to "my ex" and "my dealer" that makes the whole cast seem like his appendages. He also has no terms for women other than "foxes", many times a page, over many chapters. He isn't shallow as much as one-dimensional. If you want something more engaging, don't bother.
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