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Title: Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus ISBN: 1-4013-5204-9 Publisher: Hyperion Audiobooks Pub. Date: 04 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very funny and unexpectedly moving
Comment: Most of this book kept me laughing. I read books for a myriad of reasons, to learn, to understand the people around me better, to be swept up in a world I never really knew existed. I read this book to laugh. The title caught my eye (even though the cover was kind of silly), and the first page made me laugh in the store. So I gave it a shot, and for most of the book it delivered. In fact, the main character seemed to laugh at everything. Everything from his job to the women he dated to his parents came complete with a joke. A very funny joke, usually. I especially liked his parents, who still made love and weren't shy about announcing it to their shocked son. My parents aren't quite as up front, but my dad's made a comment or two at dinner that made me blush, so I understand. After a while, though, I began to wonder if this guy, David, would ever take anything seriously. It began to annoy me a little. And then I reached the ending. And that's when the funny book stopped with the jokes and caught my heart. His final meeting with his ex girlfriend is so sad, it strips away all the banter and shows a man growing up and facing reality. Reading about David realizing not only how much love can be an illusion, but how important that illusion is to maintain, actually made me think a little about my breakup with the guy I thought I was going to marry. I wish I could have figured out some of the things David figures out, and maybe I would have been spared some pain. Still, catharsis is the other main reason I read books, and Mr. Mebus delivered.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book!
Comment: It had me laughing from the first page. The thing that really stood out for me was the fact that here was a man who actually had a good female friend he relied on. Every book in "Urban Fiction" I read always tries to divy us up into men on one side and women (and gay men) on the other, which I am unable to relate to. Mebus' world, however, comes as a breath of fresh air with its very real look into a group of New York friends. These are relationships I recognize. And when Annie and David are sitting on the stoop at the end, looking to the future with only their friendship as a certainty, I was right there with them. Living in New York for many people is about parents on the phone and friends as your new family. This book captured that reality in a both funny and real way. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rating: 5
Summary: So funny!
Comment: I don't know what half of the people on this review site are talking about...I live in NYC and my friend gave me this book because she knows the guy who wrote it (apparently). Anyway it is a hilarious book and totally on-the-mark where dating is concerned. But more than that it seemed to be about good friends living in New York. I loved it!
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Title: Love Monkey : A Novel by Kyle Smith ISBN: 0060574534 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Hollywood Animal : A Memoir by Joe Eszterhas ISBN: 0375413553 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Gulag : A History by Anne Applebaum ISBN: 0767900561 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan ISBN: 0375400532 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0380977427 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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