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Man or Mouse (Paperback)

by Matt Whyman (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Flame; New edition edition (5 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340769033
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340769034
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,169,863 in Books (See Bestsellers 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, 5 Feb 2004
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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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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable!, 21 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Man or Mouse (Paperback)
I was reluctant to read this, having received it as part of a package - but I'm so glad I did! It was brilliant - a truly bizarre topic, handled deftly, making a great read. It's a very clever book - I lay on the sofa, laughing out loud at things that really shouldn't have been funny, but were hilarious, simply because of the way they had been written (once you get to the 'punishment' chapter, you'll know what I mean...). A cracking read - roll on Whyman's next book!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars love, lust and confusion in cyberspace, 12 Oct 2000
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A entertaining, wry look at the uses and abuses of the internet. At heart, Man or Mouse is a love story, and a very funny one, at that. Sharply written, impossible to put down.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A one-idea novel
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. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Helen Bennett

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit darker than your average male love-crisis novel
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... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mr. Stuart Bruce

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor
I had high hopes for this novel, expecting it to be a gratifyingly bleak account of desperate souls trying to make those virtual connections in the anonymous arena of cyberspace... Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2003 by _p_h_

3.0 out of 5 stars Where have all the jokes gone
Don't get me wrong: this ain't a bad book. It's entertaining, but is in no way 'hilarious' the way the effusive reviews here and on the cover make out. Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable
I read this book in virtually one go because I couldn't bear to put it down. Whyman takes a bizarre slant on an old story and adds humour and wit by the bucketful. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh & Innovative
Having been given this book as a present I did not read any review before starting it. Thank goodness I didn't because I would have been put off by men posing as bisexual women... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2000 by simonw@fastrack-ins.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars Man or movie?
If you liked Swingers and Chasing Amy you'll love this. It's razor sharp on relationships, with a red hot plot and dialogue that cracked me up. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2000

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