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Summary: get this book
Review: Guys, you have to get this book. The first 50 pages are literally the funniest thing I ever read. There are innumerable great scenes set inside the newspaper world (I've seen a lot of sitcoms and movies about newspapers, but very few that actually seem like they were written by somebody who knows what they're talking about), the singles bars and the exclusive parties (including one in which Bill Clinton is the guest of honor), all of which leads to a really cool sense of NY atmosphere that is miles about the blandness of something like Friends. Also, the main character, tabloid journalist Tom and his alpha-male buddy Shooter, who is apparently the heir to the nation's cole slaw fortune, are two guys I would do Jagermeister shots with.
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Summary: very enjoyable read
Review: Can't say enough good things about this very clever book. I'm an old married lady (of 36), but this certainly took me back to what it was like to be single, and despite being married for 9 years I still learned an awful lot about how men think. (In fact, I wish I had this book before I got married). My husband is reading this right now and he's really having a good time with it. It's very refreshing to hear this distinctive new voice talk about the same things we've all heard women writing about for a million years.
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Summary: this monkey is a riot
Review: It's hard not to laugh at this monkey, who lives in a zoo called New York City that's full of sharp-toothed tabloid journalists, elusive feminine prey and angry, chest-thumping baboons. Unless you have no sense of humor whatsoever, you're bound to get a giggle out of the numerous attempts of Tom Farrell to find a mate in a big lonely city. Don't miss the scene at the gym where he wonders how, by using the exact same equipment, men hope to get bigger and women hope to get smaller. Or the scene where he tries (and fails) to convincingly stage a fight in a restaurant to make him look muy macho. And his death-defying, drink-loving newspaper buddy Rollo is supercool also. This is bound to become a fast favorite.
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Summary: go Love Monkey!
Review: I'm embarrassed to say, I actually laughed out loud at this book (can't remember the last time that happened!), and it's not dumb jock humor but much more along the lines of the urban sophistication of Sex and the City. Love Monkey really has a lot of interesting things to say about the deep dark thoughts of the single man, and it's surprisingly accurate when it comes to women, too. I'm telling my friends to read it.
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Summary: skip this one
Review: the best books, fiction or nonfiction, come into the world out of necessity; they had to be written. kyle smith's novel is just plain filler, another stop on the fiction junk food highway. (not to mention appallingly unoriginal.) of course sometimes trashy books are fun, but this isn't one of them. (...)
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Summary: a look inside the male soul
Review: OK, this book has women down cold. I admit it. It makes you laugh and it makes you squirm, but mostly it makes you wonder if the author is anything like his hero, Tom, a boy-man who really needs to catch a break from the parade of women he lusts after. The stuff he does to try to attract their interest (like staging a fight in a bar and attempting to make a romantic dinner with one pan) is so hilarious and yet so convincing that I'm going to make my book group read this. Hey guys: are you really like this inside?
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Summary: Hornby-style laughs
Review: I actually loved Love Monkey even more than High Fidelity because it has a lot more edge and has several fall-down funny scenes. Not to knock High Fidelity, which is justly famed for its insights into the male psyche, but at times it was so quiet and restrained. Love Monkey delivers big laughs all the way, and
it's got a wicked streak in it that is much more convincing than what you see on Sex and the City. Hugely recommended.
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Summary: just to add my two cents,
Review: even though many others have expressed a similar response, this book is low-grade filler. I thought the writing in LOve Monkey was bottom o' the barrel, and the plot itself wouldn't even grab you as a short story, much less a whole novel. I don't recommend it.
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Summary: Excellent read - very entertaining
Review: Not a lot to add to what others have written. Excellent book, very funny, very entertaining.If you like Nick Hornby you will like this. It's like a NY Nick Hornby.
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Summary: a newborn superstar
Review: Wow, what a book. Fantastic writing and a totally believable plotline about a guy who's unlucky in love and looking for something just a little bit better. I read this book a couple of weeks ago but have to agree with the SF Chronicle review yesterday that called it exceedingly readable and wickedly funny. Bravo, and thanks for finally showing what it's really like to be a man who not only has a sense of humor, but a tender side, and nothing to do with it.
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