abandoned it 60% of the way through
2 stars
Some of the jokes and callbacks are funny, but the book is just meandering mush.
It doesn't work as a how-to for women (not even a tongue-in-cheek one), it doesn't work as a stealth guide for men, and the writer's personal experiences somehow are not unusual/entertaining OR relatable.*
*they are possibly relatable, if you happen to be a hetero TV writer whose social life was entirely in the Manhattan and Brooklyn comedy circuit of the 2010s
Some of the jokes and callbacks are funny, but the book is just meandering mush.
It doesn't work as a how-to for women (not even a tongue-in-cheek one), it doesn't work as a stealth guide for men, and the writer's personal experiences somehow are not unusual/entertaining OR relatable.*
*they are possibly relatable, if you happen to be a hetero TV writer whose social life was entirely in the Manhattan and Brooklyn comedy circuit of the 2010s
