Reviews

Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me by David Rees, Andy Selsberg, Nick Hornby, Ben Karlin

urbanall's review

funny

4.0

megmermaid's review

1.0

Eh. I'd hoped this was going to be hilarious and insightful, but all the humor was pretty much the same thing all the way through--low-grade irony and drab self-flagellation. Along with extreme amounts of bigotry and sexism. DO BETTER MALE COMEDIANS.

moreadsbooks's review

2.0

Some stories = hilarious, others = painfully not funny.

violetpretty5's review

4.0

Some laugh out loud funny essays about relationship hell from a variety of comics and public figures...what I appreciated about it is that the overall tone wasn't particularly misogynistic, whiny, or cynical, which it easily could have been given the subject matter.

rovertoak's review

3.0

I was hoping for more laugh-out-loud stories, and while there were many smiles, I ended up feeling a little down -- these are stories wrought with insecurities, damages, and regrets written within plenty of self-deprecation -- It had me, and will have others (guys and girls), reflecting on past romances that left their psychological welts and fond memories behind.

jodiwilldare's review

1.0

# That Wolfdogg will probably have his suggestion rights for Rock and Roll Bookclub revoked again. His rights were revoked sometime in June of 07 because he suggested A Boy Called Freebird, a book so heinous and unreadable that I didn’t make it past page 40.

# Just because someone writes something funny for TV (Will Forte, Stephen Colbert, Andy Richter, et. al.) does not mean they can write a funny, fresh, uncliched essay about dating or relationships.

# I really don’t like Neal Pollack’s writing.

# You don’t need to know the difference between losing/loosing or couldn’t care less and could care less to get an essay published in this book.

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