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Summary: Hopeful Romantic
Review: This was my first Jane Heller Book. I was totally impressed with her wit and abiity to laugh at women as a species. I readily enjoy an author with a genuine sense of humor. Romance and comedy, that combimation is hard to beat. I also enjoyed the secondary story of the relationship between the women. The only other thing I would have added, would be a little more romance and development of the relationship between the main characters. I look forward to reading her other works.
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Summary: Female (NON)Intelligence
Review: Truly one of the worst, most predictable, pieces of pap I've ever read. Perhaps her other books were clever, but I honestly can't find a single compliment, however reaching, to pay this piece of junk. Kept feeling as if I'd seen this TV movie about 15 or 20 years ago. Certainly read more like a failed screenplay than a novel,with its cliche dialogue and rudimentary narrative. I'm sure Ms Heller is a lovely woman, and as my mother would probably say, she'd probably read this review and laugh all the way to the bank. It was a clever premise fully unrealized.
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Summary: Alot better than I thought from reading the reviews
Review: When I first started reading "Female Intelligence", I had a tremendous urge to review this book immediately and explain all the pitfalls of the "Wyman Method". Luckily for me, Jane Heller did it all herself.
This book for me was an all-nighter. I simply couldn't put it down. Look, humor is relative. People have different life experiences, therefore people find different things funny. Now, I know many people who have read "Mars and Venus" books and feel that they were really, really helpful to them in their relationships. I have read alot of these books, and while there are many good points, I feel that alot of it is formula - and, so, if my husband says "How was YOUR day" instead of "How was your day! Goodbye" I'm suddenly going to be happy? He didn't mean it then, and he still doesn't mean it now. So what does it help if he learned to be a parrot? So you can see why I found "Female Intelligence" so hilarious.
I really enjoyed the h/h as well. They were a really funny couple - you know, the kind where they're so opposite that everything about them is funny?
And, no, I didn't "know" who gave away Lynn's secrets to the media. I am thankful that I have good friends, it never occured to me that a good friend could really do that.
For those who took this book seriously - it was a spoof! A spoof with a message, if you will. I think it did have a message somewhere in all that laughter. I especially loved the part where he analyzes what went wrong with her parent's marriage - and he's right! That part was really funny.
And I don't think she could have possibly have meant it seriously (the author), when she had Lynn (the character) saying "Oh, I don't know how you metabolize mousse, but that mousse last night went straight to my thighs!" Can you imagine a man actually saying that? I don't think Jane Heller was really that stupid that she thought a therapist would actually say that, she just thought of some outrageous things a therapist MIGHT say, and then doubled and quadrupled it, till we have a very funny method, and a funny book. This was NOT a how-to book on the Wymann method, it was a comedy! The Wymann method was NOT meant to be taken seriously! I don't think everyone got that.
I really enjoyed this book, and it was a pleasure to read the dialogue where you have two very intelligent people having a conversation, rather than what is the case in some other books where the characters either talk AT each other, or both crack a bunch of one-liners. To be quite honest, I found all that intelligent conversation a little intimidating - I don't have those kind of conversations, it's easy to see that Jane Heller's IQ is quite a few points above mine. But while mine is not quite there alas, it's fun to watch a real first class brain at work.
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Summary: Not worth the time
Review: When I read the jacket to Female Intelligence I was really excited. What a great premise for a book. Unfortunatly Jane Heller's idea and mine are completly different. This book was boring often bordering on ludacrious. I realize that she was trying to poke fun at both sexes but could have done so in a more believable way.The dialogue often between the characters is so unbelievable that it detracts from the rest of the story. Many times I had to keep asking myself if I wanted to continue on with the slow torture of reading it but of course wanted to believe it would get better. It didn't. There was a mystery in the book. However, I had already figured it out before I actually got to the part that let you in on the fact that there were one. The only saving grace is the relationship between Lynn and Brandon. They were great together. If Heller had explored that relationship more instead of the other drivle it could have been better. I suggest only reading this if you are trapped on an airplane runaway and you didn't actually buy it but found it shoved in your seat.
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