I want to love this book. I really do. Stephanie Klein is engaging and funny and honest. But as of right now, too honest. I don't need to know within 15 pages what you do with your tongue and where you use olive oil without the kitchen. Your bowel movements also are a bit much. Then there are the euphemisms. It's all just overkill. Calling the ex husband her wasband? Cute. This sentence? "Metrosexuals and their Eurosexual cousins can’t kiss worth their weight in manscaping supplies. " Overkill. And it's not just that one. The one that almost caused me to put my book down permanently was found on page 12 (the book starts on page 5). "Right, he's a technosexual crackberry who Palms at the dinner table, but he somehow doesn't know the first bit about using the flash button? Oh, gigabyte me." It's just seeming like the book is trying too too hard. Nevertheless, I'm pressing on with the book, because it is interesting once you get past the oversharing and the cutesy made up speech (which she owns proudly, yet can't stand men who use baby talk but maybe I'm the only one who equates those to similar things).
What's it about? 28 y/o Stephanie Klein has been dumped by her husband who's been cheating on her with a 42 y/o socialite. A husband who canceled on their initial wedding, thus foregoing the deposit she and her family put down for the wedding, though his family promised (but never followed through) on reimbursing her for that debacle. A husband she helped put through medical school, and who told her the only special thing about her was her red hair, beyond that she was average. So taking all that into account, she should have been pleased that this was over. But of course, that's not what one feels after having been dumped by their husband. So Steph goes to a therapist, who insists on a pair and a spare to get back into the groove of single life. A pair of boyfriends, and an extra to fall back on that is.
The story is very worth telling, and I'm glad I'm reading it, because I look forward to reading her memoir Moose: Memoir from a Fat Camp. I'm only a third of the way through this, and will update when I'm finished, if anyone wants a final thought : )
What do you do when you have a book you just can't get into? Do you put it down permanently or soldier your way through?
What's it about? 28 y/o Stephanie Klein has been dumped by her husband who's been cheating on her with a 42 y/o socialite. A husband who canceled on their initial wedding, thus foregoing the deposit she and her family put down for the wedding, though his family promised (but never followed through) on reimbursing her for that debacle. A husband she helped put through medical school, and who told her the only special thing about her was her red hair, beyond that she was average. So taking all that into account, she should have been pleased that this was over. But of course, that's not what one feels after having been dumped by their husband. So Steph goes to a therapist, who insists on a pair and a spare to get back into the groove of single life. A pair of boyfriends, and an extra to fall back on that is.
The story is very worth telling, and I'm glad I'm reading it, because I look forward to reading her memoir Moose: Memoir from a Fat Camp. I'm only a third of the way through this, and will update when I'm finished, if anyone wants a final thought : )
What do you do when you have a book you just can't get into? Do you put it down permanently or soldier your way through?
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Well, I've soldiered through most of the books I wasn't sure about, although time constraints now make me put them down more often than not.
Soldiering, I've discovered some amazing books that you don't realize are amazing until the end, and also some totally pointless books. This one sounds like it might be worth getting at least halfway...
Some of that language sounds annoying. (Gigabyte me? um no. no one would say that) A little is ok to get the point across, but no one likes to be brow beaten by the book they are reading. Right now I'm trying (so very hard) to read a book for class that I am just not into. It really sucks. Usually, I'll just put it down. I'll give extra effort to a review copy.
I remember reading on some blog (but I can't remember whose) that life is too short to keep reading a book that you hate. I have started doing it recently..I put them aside and tell myself that maybe I will pick them up at some point, but honestly, I doubt it.
I would have probably read this had you not done this review. Thanks for the save Ash!
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