This begs the question as to whether a dude can read this book without feeling like a total, grade A pervert. To determine that, there are simple guidelines to follow:
• If you’re a married or otherwise non-single male and your special lady friend asks you to read it, you’re covered. Pervert Rating 0.
• If you’re a married or otherwise non-single male and you’re sneaking peeks at this book out of curiosity, you’re partially covered. It’s not quite as bad as swiping your woman’s Cosmo for bathroom reading material, but it’s close. Pervert Rating 5.
• If you’re a single male and you claim to be reading the book to understand women, you’re full of it. Pervert Rating 10.
My Horizontal Life ends with the author realizing that a life of one-night stands is exausting; it’s the closest the book comes to having a theme or message. This isn’t a bad thing; Handler never takes herself or her subject matter too seriously. Instead, the book delivers enough witty one-liners, observations about dating and life, interesting characters, and funny bedroom (or cruise ship) stories to make it a humorous book worth reading. Unless you’re a single male.
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1 - lupe
My sister loaned me this book yesterday and I read it all yesterday evening. I LOVE this book! It was laughing out loud so much that my husband thought I was insane! I would recommend this to EVERYONE and I ordered the second book today. I can't wait til it comes!!!
2 - Maggie
This book was a pick for a book club I belong to. I had to read it. It made me laugh. I was shocked in some parts of it and through other parts of it I was just down right scared for the woman. I really don't know anyone who abuses her body so much and treated men like objects. But she was never apologetic and she knew exactly what she was doing so I guess you could say she was empowered. I did find some of the writing funny and thought she surely could write well. I had never heard of her before and was surprised to see a photo of her on the internet.
3 - april rump
is there a second book? I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO READ A SECOND PART TO THIS BOOK!!!!!
I just finished the first part of this book last night at five in the morning, it was so good i could not put it down! this book is worth not missing for anything it really will brighten ur day up esp. if ur down in the dumps i actually could start reading it again!