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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
your best friend's advice in handy book form, 29 May 2000
By A Customer
I am loath to use the phrase "self-help book" about this text, thus lumping it into the same catagory of such whinging and patronising tomes as "The Rules" and "Men are from Mars...". It is, however, the best and most accessible writing about how to live a happy life that I've come across. Unlike the previously mentioned books, Ms Wurtzel never takes the tones of an condescending older sibling who's been there and done that - as she reminds us at the beginning, she herself finds it hard sometimes to keep to her own rules. Instead, the book reads like a long late-night wine-fuelled chat with your best friend - the sort that start with you crying about how your life is crap, how you're never going to find a partner, get married and settle down, and end with you realising that you've just been a bit silly and that everything will turn out fine, even if it takes some time. Brilliant and liberating and above all, complete common sense; the chapter on how and why to relish being single is a treat. Should be distributed to women everywhere.
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24 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It may change your life, it may not, 9 May 2002
By A Customer
After reading Prozac Nation it was interesting to see that Ms Wurtzel went on to write a "Rule" book. More so, that after her "Rule" book she writes "More, Now, Again" which proves that she paid no attention to her own rules. She tends to always write from the view "I am so interesting and reading about my problems is better than dealing with your own". Thus making this book even more intriguing as it involves acknoledging that other humans exsist (who aren't male). However it's not. It of course has it's moments but she makes fatal errors. A book that is trying to sell the (wonderful) idea that there is more to life than thinking about men, it is also a book that can't leave them alone. For example, she talks about pets. How is great to have a pet, a dog even. She then betrays herself by telling the reader that men find it very attractive to see a woman controlling a big, mean dog. Like what a great reason to get a pet! The same with the section about eating. She again trys to sell us the idea that eating lots of cake at a dinner party will make you ever-so irresistable to men. Again when it comes to ideas. She talks of how women should talk loudly and knowingly at the aforementioned dinner parties because after all men find it attractive. You get the gist I'm sure.
I expected a lot more. It never delivered. As someone with depression, she tried to sell us happiness. As a strong independant woman, she tries to sell us boyfriends.
You'll see through this book in no time and feel cheated. If nothing else let it inspire you to write a book 1,000 times better!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant look at life with insightful comments, 26 Jan 2001
By A Customer
Absolutely loved it...especially the part about women need to be completely and utterly enthused and passionate [or words to that effect] about anything other than men, which hit home re: the fact that whilst being really rather enjoyable, men, when they are a romantic love interest in our lives, really shouldn't dominate every other passion and aspect of our lives as they sometimes do when we have fallen in love with one of them!! Besides that favourite bit, it is througout a very amusing and insightful easy read about things that are part of our everyday life and thoughtlife at that! Loved it so much have bought all her other books in one go!
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