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You Can Make Him Like You

by Ben Tanzer (Goodreads Author)

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Ben Tanzer's third novel is an adventure in being a grown up, in facing relationships and jobs, friendships and parenthood. A true exploration of what it means to live in our world, saturated with pop culture in the midst of real life struggles.

Paperback, 222 pages

Published April 12th 2011 by Artistically Declined Press

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Mar 12, 2011 Caleb Ross rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: signed, the-velvet-podcast-books, guilty-by-association

You Can Make Him Like You is definitely the best thing I’ve read by Ben Tanzer. And considering I’ve read, and really enjoyed, just about everything this man has written, my opinion comes both well-informed and well-deserved.

This is one of the best, if not the best, depictions of the transition from empty childlessness to fatherhood I’ve ever had the opportunity to experience. Tanzer has succeeded in imbuing every interaction, every situation, every political pot-shot with the metaphorical accep...more You Can Make Him Like You is definitely the best thing I’ve read by Ben Tanzer. And considering I’ve read, and really enjoyed, just about everything this man has written, my opinion comes both well-informed and well-deserved.

This is one of the best, if not the best, depictions of the transition from empty childlessness to fatherhood I’ve ever had the opportunity to experience. Tanzer has succeeded in imbuing every interaction, every situation, every political pot-shot with the metaphorical acceptance of fatherhood. The point being, simply, that to be a father means to be changed, whether you want to or not.

For example:

1. Constant questions: the first-person narration is built as a series of questions, some rhetorical, some honest, all answered by the very voice that asks them, which gives us an economical yet satisfying understanding of Keith, the 37-year old prisoner of extra-marital fantasy. The self-reflection and internal Q&A plays well into his imagined events– sex with secretary, winning a bar fight, and on and on. This is a mid-life crisis Corvette in his head.

2. Inability to concentrate: A series of loud neighbors prevent discourse between the to-be parents, Keith and Liz. The neighbors are always there, for better or worse (usually worse), to diffuse every building verbal explosion.

3. Inability to accept change: You Can Make Him Like You takes place during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Keith, a McCain supporter, is unable to dodge his impending role as father, just as he is slowly learning that he is unable to dodge the election of Obama (whose campaign discourse of Hope and Change adds to Keith’s hesitation to appreciate either Hope or Change as a good thing).

Perhaps no interaction better and more concisely describes You Can Make Him Like You than a quick dialog toward the end of the book, between new parents Keith and Liz. Liz, after a tense meeting with Keith’s parents, says to Keith, “that went well.” Keith responds, “I think you’re right, it’s not like we came to blows or anything. Of course, my dad would kind of need to be in the room if we were going to have a fight, yes” (pg 151)? Keith is simply a man learning to be a father without ever having had a worthy point of reference. This is a book that every to-be father should read.(less)

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Feb 15, 2011 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The always awesome Ben Tanzer knocks it out of the park yet again with his upcoming April release You Can Make Him Like You. The novel, published by Artistically Declined Press, beautifully captures the chaos and confusion of marriage, friendship, family, and the decision to have a child.

A big Ben fan since the beginning (Repetition Patterns - an eBook short story collection released through CCLaP), he consistently impresses me with the quality and clarity of his writing. He...more from publisher/author

The always awesome Ben Tanzer knocks it out of the park yet again with his upcoming April release You Can Make Him Like You. The novel, published by Artistically Declined Press, beautifully captures the chaos and confusion of marriage, friendship, family, and the decision to have a child.

A big Ben fan since the beginning (Repetition Patterns - an eBook short story collection released through CCLaP), he consistently impresses me with the quality and clarity of his writing. He gets better and better with each book. His characters gain more depth and become increasingly more plagued and relatable. He has this uncanny habit of populating his books with people I feel like I already know.

I cannot tell you how many times I nodded along with this story's protagonist, Keith, as he struggled with what I am now one hundred percent certain ALL men struggle with: the inability to see a young, beautiful woman as anything other than a sexual object who they believe desires them just as much as they desire her. I'm sitting there, reading the book, while inside I'm screaming "I knew it! I just friggen knew it! This confirms everything! It's like reading a book of truths about men! This is exactly what all men think about!"

The insecurities, the paranoia and anxieties, the crazy male fantasies - I steal weighted glances at my husband, this newly confirmed knowledge making me poke him in the shoulder as we walk past chicks in restaurants and shopping plazas, asking him, "What do you think about her, honey? Think you would stand a chance with her?", sniggering to myself because I know he was thinking it as I was speaking it...

You Can Make Him Like You is a readers "insider edition" to the dysfunctional and twisted lives of Keith, his wife Liz, and their mutual friends Sammy and Tara, and John and Monica - complete with Keith's internal dialogue, which, in my opinion, absolutely steals the show! It's like reality television on paper.

Set during the Obama/McCain election, Tanzer allows much more of his own personality to shine through as he sites lyrics from some kick ass contemporary rock bands and laces up his main characters shoes as he forces him to hit the pavement.

This is what an "adult" coming of age story would look like, if there ever was such a thing. A big, long, sloppy, wet kiss goodbye to what they used to know, and a timid and frightening hello to unknown, and sometimes unbelievable, new territory.

Wrapping my arms around Ben Tanzer and his publisher Artistically Declined Press in a big ol' hug for making this copy available to me.

If you have not read Ben Tanzer, may I suggest taking a peek at his short story Cool, Not Removed which you can view for free? CHeck out my blog post for a link, as well as links to an interview and guest post with Ben, and a music video that is featured in this novel!

http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.c...(less)

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May 13, 2011 Kate rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who are parents and those who might want to be

Recommended to Kate by: Ben Tanzer

Shelves: signed-by-author, music, re-read-it, favorites

Ben Tanzer = pop culture
Ben Tanzer = PopRocks! of literature
Ben Tanzer = rock star

Ben Tanzer is all these things but most importantly a phenominal writer that I am glad to know.

Once I started this book I couldn't put it down. If I was a dude, Keith would be me (minus his political views) and since I'm going through life changes, this book came at a perfect time.

Ever since I turned 30 the questions have turned to 'so when are you getting married?' 'when are you having kids?' 'don't you know your...more

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Nov 12, 2011 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

“It’s one thing to start it with a positive jam, and it’s another thing to see it on through.” —Craig Finn, the Hold Steady

In a perfect world, books would have soundtracks the way movies have soundtracks. In You Can Make Him Like You, Ben Tanzer gets about as close as anyone could hope to in achieving the illusion in the meantime. In fact, the closing chapter, aptly titled Stay Positive, begs for the familiar cut-to-credits and black as the opening chords of its Hold Steady namesake fill the the...more

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Apr 13, 2011 Jason rated it 5 of 5 stars

The third novel from Ben Tanzer, You Can Make Him Like You, is a coming of age story for the near middle-aged Republican living and working in one of the best neighborhoods in Chicago. The story is told through the eyes of a 37 year old soon-to-be-father who constantly obsesses about other women, and at times comes very close to being with other women. Yet, at the end of the day is in love with wife, but not ready to be father.

Essentially, Tanzer is exposing the secret inner thoughts of a man a...more

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Feb 17, 2012 Christine Elise rated it 2 of 5 stars

I bought this book at a local book store, honestly just because of the title and the fact that it's written about Chicago (love THS, live in Chi). The book definitely grabbed me at first and I flew through it - at frist it is engaging, well paced, and interesting. But as the book went on I became more and more dissappointed. To me the charater development completely fizzled out about mid-way through - it was like once I got the description and scope of the worldviews, I just didn't care anymore....more

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May 03, 2011 Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars

I took an almost immediate liking to the protagonist in Ben Tanzer’s “You Can Make Him Like You” when I learned that he, like me, is annoyed by neighbors. In his case, it’s the endless collection of next door neighbors--who move in and out at a vicious pace--and their variety of noise making. Music, loud sex, whatever. (If you’re curious, in my case, it’s barking dogs.) It is up to Chicagoan Keith, a late 30-something dude (and yes, he can only be called a dude) to visit, to beg, in the most Mid...more I took an almost immediate liking to the protagonist in Ben Tanzer’s “You Can Make Him Like You” when I learned that he, like me, is annoyed by neighbors. In his case, it’s the endless collection of next door neighbors--who move in and out at a vicious pace--and their variety of noise making. Music, loud sex, whatever. (If you’re curious, in my case, it’s barking dogs.) It is up to Chicagoan Keith, a late 30-something dude (and yes, he can only be called a dude) to visit, to beg, in the most Midwestern way (that is to say kindly and yet with private resentment) to please keep it down.
Keith is married, works in advertising (I understand this is a rite of passage in Chicago) and his wife wants a baby. He’s not sure. There’s quite a Peter Pan-esque quality to Keith, as if he is stuck with a fifteen-year-old’s sex-addled brain. He looks at most women as sex objects, makes any excuse to get out of a difficult situation--usually by numbing himself alcohol or drugs, and doesn’t seem to realize that there is music outside of the realm of heart-wrenching hipsterdom. Despite these shortcomings, or maybe because of them, Tanzer does an effective job of creating a narrator at once pitiable and yet kind of hopeful. I felt an anxiety about Keith as I read, as if I was cheering for him to grow up and figure out that it’s okay to love his wife and that, really, at his age, he is allowed stop worrying about what his(admittedly horrible) parents think. He’s smart enough to truly fear parenthood, to fear a lifetime of commitment, and to be wary of but still love his friends, who mingle into his daily life and are ultimately both flawed and kind-hearted. You get to Keith’s age, you learn this about people.
Frankly, I don’t read nearly enough modern-day pop culture novels. Do you? Feels like every day I’m only offered upmarket literary novels with excessively trick-making plots or the experimental novel written in dense prose that is good for me (like, say, spinach) and yet, admittedly, I can only handle in very small doses. Sure, those have their place and I wouldn’t dismiss them. But the world needs more novels like this one, slightly satirical, funny, emotive, a reflection of life itself. Sometimes what appears the easiest—just living, just working, having a family—is enough to make a quite complicated story.

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May 22, 2011 Ken rated it 4 of 5 stars

You can run but you can’t hide. At least not from your own life. Keith, the self-absorbed protagonist of Ben Tanzer’s You Can Make Him Like You, is sucker-punched by this lesson over and over again. Yet, as one can expect from Tanzer, the blows are at turns funny, tragic, and often spot-on in revealing the anxieties that scratch beneath our own skins.

What ails Keith is life itself. Or rather an adult life with all its complications and irresolvable issues that always require a bit of character s...more You can run but you can’t hide. At least not from your own life. Keith, the self-absorbed protagonist of Ben Tanzer’s You Can Make Him Like You, is sucker-punched by this lesson over and over again. Yet, as one can expect from Tanzer, the blows are at turns funny, tragic, and often spot-on in revealing the anxieties that scratch beneath our own skins.

What ails Keith is life itself. Or rather an adult life with all its complications and irresolvable issues that always require a bit of character sacrifice. His life is neatly ordered and sorted, a well-crafted mix of job, friends and a wife. But there’s temptation everywhere Keith looks. And sure, he would never do anything to ruin his marriage, right? Right? Liz, headstrong and the adult of the two, also won’t budge on having a child, an event that Keith views more as an intrusion than bundle of joy. Order is quickly becoming uncertainty and a lack of control. Keith, who never wants to confront anything and would prefer to suppress these difficult issues with a jog in the cool Chicago air, is better at avoiding life or trying to hide in the checklist of cultural touchstones he surrounds himself with. He ties his emotional issues to romantic comedies, Hold Steady songs, Michael Chiklis’ Vic Mackey character on The Shield, and even Patrick Ewing. So when the kid finally does arrive, and things don’t go as planned, not even Vic Mackey can save him.

At first impulse, if you read the plot on the back of a book, it would all sound a little too cliché. Yet, Tanzer’s love of writing pop stories, that reveling in what can be new and poignant in oft-tread ground, wins the day. His greatest skill -- and it’s been this way through all of his novels and short stories -- is to take the normal, the everyday we all know and live through, and to turn that into great tragicomedy. Like his protagonist, Tanzer is obsessed with the art of a great pop song: Three chords, three minutes, and out. But the emotion is so pure, you can’t deny it. You Can Make Him Like You hits the reader like that and hits it just right.

Ask anyone who has tried: often those are the hardest songs to write.(less)

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Apr 28, 2011 Victor Giron rated it 4 of 5 stars

About a guy named Keith, pushing 40, coming to grips with fatherhood amongst other things. Very coming-of-age, very lit-pop, very Ben Tanzer, and that's all good. It was a joy to read, especially for a dad who's struggled with the thoughts Ben lays down so clearly. And I liked the whole tie-in to the Hold Steady. I've had that feeling of listening to a song, being at a show, and all of a sudden having the idea of a story or book flash through my head, but then it quickly disappears the next day...more

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May 03, 2011 Brandon Tietz rated it 5 of 5 stars

I’ve met Ben Tanzer…seen him give a reading, podcasted with the guy, and even had dinner with him. This was back in February when we were both in D.C. for AWP. Only recently have I completed a novel of his. It was one of those situations where you meet someone and hope you like the work because you like them as a person. I don’t care who you are, but writing positively about a book you didn’t dig is damn hard. Thank God Tanzer came through on his end.

You Can Make Him Like You is one of those boo...more I’ve met Ben Tanzer…seen him give a reading, podcasted with the guy, and even had dinner with him. This was back in February when we were both in D.C. for AWP. Only recently have I completed a novel of his. It was one of those situations where you meet someone and hope you like the work because you like them as a person. I don’t care who you are, but writing positively about a book you didn’t dig is damn hard. Thank God Tanzer came through on his end.

You Can Make Him Like You is one of those books that makes you consider adulthood. I say “one of those” like I’ve read more than just High Fidelity, but truth be told, these are the books I generally tend to avoid. Coming from a guy in his late twenties, a fear begins to settle in: of getting older and “losing your cool.” Things like having your own apartment or making a car payment don’t seem as concrete as having a mortgage or wife, or in this case, kids. There’s a definitive transition on the horizon and Tanzer is walking us through it, like that big brother we never had.

He illustrates this with Keith, a late-thirties social media guy that lives in Chicago. Republican. Married. Deep into sports. Drinker of gin & tonics. I think we’ve met some version of this guy before at one point or another, or at least seem him in passing at a bar. He’s an everyman, so to speak, but what I love about this book is how relatable this guy is made through a series of flaws and internal conflicts. He struggles with infidelity, with hanging on to those last shreds of youth, and making those trademark adult decisions of commitment. If you haven’t been there yet, just wait, because it’s coming. Tanzer paints an internal dialogue that’s so spot-on—especially in scenes of a “should I/shouldn’t I?” nature. You hardly realize it’s fiction. This, combined with the events of the McCain/Obama presidential election gives You Can Make Him Like You a deeper root in realism. One mention of “maverick” and it was practically 2008 for me again.

Bottom line: I don’t think I will ever read anything that captures the mind of the late-thirties American male the way this book did, this delicate tightrope of fearing what the future holds and hoping that the best days aren’t already gone. Tanzer weaves this all together in a very non-heavy-handed kind of way, disguised in the bullsh!t conversations you have with friends, the train of thought when temptation lurks, and the ticking time-bomb that is childbirth. We all have to grow up sometime, and whether it’s Tanzer simply recalling his experiences or something wholly conjured—I’m not sure I care. It works. I feel a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit more prepared for the future…whatever it may hold for me.

Original review posted by Brandon Tietz on www.wearevespertine.com
-author of "Out of Touch"(less)

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Apr 10, 2011 Lavinia Ludlow rated it 5 of 5 stars

To me, Ben Tanzer’s work reads like a series of precisely delivered suckerpunches, leaving me shucked against the floor disoriented, hurting, bleeding, but wanting more, always more. And throughout the years, Tanzer’s been shadowboxing in the wings, waiting to unleash his next series of literary blows. Recently, he’s released works such as 99 Problems through CCLaP, and Cool, Not Removed through Artistically Declined Press, and again through ADP, a charming book called You Can Make Him Like You....more To me, Ben Tanzer’s work reads like a series of precisely delivered suckerpunches, leaving me shucked against the floor disoriented, hurting, bleeding, but wanting more, always more. And throughout the years, Tanzer’s been shadowboxing in the wings, waiting to unleash his next series of literary blows. Recently, he’s released works such as 99 Problems through CCLaP, and Cool, Not Removed through Artistically Declined Press, and again through ADP, a charming book called You Can Make Him Like You.

In You Can Make Him Like You, Tanzer introduces his protagonist Keith in a paragraph crammed with impeccable detail. We learn Keith is an insecure, yet self-aware thirty-seven-year old man, a “cock-sucker” of sorts: “Hello, my name is Keith, and I am a selfish cock-sucker. I am thirty-seven years old. I have longish black hair and what some might call an angular or Roman nose. I live in Chicago, I have a two-bedroom condo in the Gold Coast and I am generally embarrassed to admit the location. I am partial to George W. Bush, love John McCain and try to talk to my parents as little as possible…I have slept with eight people…”

In You Can Make Him Like You, Keith migrates through infidelity, marital tension, therapy, fatherhood, the everyday wear and tear of suburbia: a nag of a wife, a raging midlife crisis that has him sleeping with the intern, throwing fists in a bar, and inexplicably getting belligerent in a therapy session, a service which he claims he no longer needs. Think Rob Fleming’s neuroses from High Fidelity (without the indie music store) crossed with Patrick Bateman’s ability to attract hot women with perfect T&A in American Psycho (minus the chainsaw and brie). And yes, there are moments when Keith is a cocky cock-sucker, “I am on top of the intern,” but he also has quiet poetic moments, “…it is amazingly peaceful up here, the slight breeze, the occasional straggling geese, The Hancock Building and the Sears Tower lurking off somewhere in the distance and the leaves drifting and spinning like little commandos as they float towards the street.”

This is a story of a thirty-seven-year-old man-child wrestling with drab suburbia and reality of being a husband and father (the birth of his child that he seems to look forward to as much as a colonoscopy exam administered without drugs, in a sort of “I have to do this to maintain peace of mind”). As he narrates, “…I wander into the living room and look out onto the street below. Cars pass by. People walk their dogs. And others run. I watch the action for awhile and I am struck that it doesn’t matter what you do or don’t do, life keeps cranking along and you can either be a part of it or not, your call.”

Tensions are high, hooks throughout the book kept me engaged and left me flip-flopping between extremes, “did he or did he not sleep with that random lady? Does he truly love or subconsciously want to run like hell away from his wife, job, life in general? Is he or is he not a hardcore Republican? Now that he has a kid and has found a moment of peace, is this just the eye of his midlife crisis storm or has he wholly accepted his reality?”

You Can Make Him Like You is a coming-of-middle-age story, a departure from things like sleeping with interns and resentment toward his spouse, and acceptance of his current state, the birth of a child, finding beauty and peace in his son, Jones. I think Tanzer tries to make Keith come off as a bad guy but he’s sort of good, good that he doesn’t train wreck his life by taking off with the intern, abandoning his wife and kid, shanking someone in a bar. I suppose Keith turns into the best guy he can be, and he wants to be good, to think he is good, then in a fleeting moment he may be a douche again, but goes back to being good.

As I read this book, I had ah-ha! moments of “I never want to get married or have a kid,” to moments of, “wow, we watch ‘Intervention’ for the same selfish reasons” to extended laugh-out-loud moments: “Drugs don’t make people listen to Hootie and the Blowfish. People do…” and “I am about to answer him when Counting Crows comes on overhead and I have to pause for a moment and decide whether or not it would be preferable to drive a fork into my eye.”

Tanzer has mastered the art of introducing characters, setting scenes, and building tension in a novel made up of flash-fiction-length chapters, following all those “editor’s dream” rules without being stiff or mechanical in his voice delivery. Among writers like Brad Listi and Tony O’Neill, Tanzer’s storytelling ability is something that I covet on a daily basis. I look forward to being bludgeoned again by his future publications.(less)

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Jun 29, 2011 Peter rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's impossible for me to write objectively about Ben Tanzer's latest novel, You Can Make Him Like You, for many reasons: Ben's a great friend and confidante of mine; I read an early draft of the novel and had constructive feedback that shaped the final version; and the narrative personally hits so close to home with its am-I-ready-for-fatherhood question that every husband faces. So I won't even try to be objective, but will simply mention that it's another funny, thoughtful, pop culture-satura...more

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Aug 24, 2011 Patrick Wensink rated it 5 of 5 stars

Once in a while a book comes at the right time in your life. Tanzer's book of a 30-something guy dealing with his maturity and a budding family arrived perfectly timed.

It's eerie how well Tanzer dissects the mind of a married man with wit and love and uncomfortable truth.

*The only drawback was a good chunk of spelling errors, which are really copy editing complaints, not an issue with the author.

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Mar 21, 2011 Jason Pettus rated it 5 of 5 stars

Ben is a good friend of mine, so it would be an ethical conflict for me to do a supposedly "objective" review of this latest novel of his; but I did want to at least mention that I recently read it and enjoyed it, and of course recommend it to all his existing fans. Another pop-culture-infused character-heavy relationship story, which is what Ben is best at.

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Apr 16, 2011 Hosho rated it 5 of 5 stars

Tanzer's best book to date, YCMHLY perfectly captures the Pop-infused wants and worries of both serious relationships, and having a first child. Breezy and entertaining, Tanzer delivers a weighty emotional journey, but one that never tumbles into melodrama--a very easy book to relate to and enjoy.

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Mar 26, 2013 David rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love how the protagonist in this book is simultaneously not in touch with his own emotions and internally neurotic. This created some wonderful tension for me within the character himself, even beyond the issues he was actually struggling with. I think that was one of the aspects that really made me feel his confusion. It was just so palpable. Tanzer really gets you in there with him and what he is vulnerable to. It really is marvelously done.

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Sep 04, 2011 Tovah france rated it 5 of 5 stars

really really funny. i want to fuck both liz and keith and then possibly jones. But mainly the intern, because she offers a bit of pizazz.

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Apr 22, 2011 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I liked the way this book captured a moment in time, in a place, with some people. I found myself drawn in, though I didn't love the protagonist or most of his friends. There were still a few typos in this version...wanted the red pen...and yet, I did enjoy it. I loved the self-reflection, the mood, and the pace...would like to read more by BT.

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Apr 18, 2011 Ray Charbonneau rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: general-fiction

Doesn't really break new ground, but makes the old ground fresh and new again.

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May 13, 2011 Ellen added it

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Love the title, to begin with.

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Feb 08, 2011 Ben rated it 5 of 5 stars · (Review from the author)

It changed my life.

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May 04, 2011 Nik Korpon rated it 5 of 5 stars

'In the beginning of You Can Make Him Like You, the new novel by Ben Tanzer, the narrator introduces himself: "Hello, my name is Keith, and I am a selfish cocksucker." From that point forward, hearing Keith's voice was just like hearing my own voice, but the version of me I don't have to live with. Which makes it that much more entertaining.'

Full review here: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/nk...

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Jun 29, 2012 Jeff Phillips rated it 5 of 5 stars

A lot of tasty layers to this read, quite a unique and relatable coming of age tale. I laughed, I even teared up in a few parts. Sucked me in and stirred me up. Makes me want to have a kid, and not have one, in the same stroke of thought. Any writer that can make me feel f***ed up like that is like a crazy chef that makes a good spicy dish, that burns my tongue and flushes my face but makes me crave more of his signature work, if that makes sense.

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May 06, 2013 Peter Tieryas-Liu rated it 5 of 5 stars

Review forthcoming at HTMLGiant in June.

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Nov 09, 2011 Caryn Rose rated it 4 of 5 stars

The title alone made me put this on a to-read list, and I'm happy to report that it didn't disappoint. I read half of it, staying up way past my bedtime, and then finished it the next night. The story is vivid, I could see the apartment and the office and the characters. The language creates a feeling of motion that, to me, synchronized with the mental state of the narrator. Brisk, fresh, enjoyable.

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Jan 14, 2013 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars

While this book picked up at the end, it was very hard to get into. It is one that I kept reading in the hopes that it would get better, but it's saving moment came a little too late.

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Sep 04, 2011 Mkwoa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Great read, love the voice. Really fearing further growing up and am totally not ready for anything. Makes me think that everything isn't going to be OK, but it will be. And I think that's alright.

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Dec 03, 2011 Tobias rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I am the author of the books My Father's House, You Can Make Him Like You, So Different Now and the forthcoming Orphans and Lost in Space, among others. I also oversee day to day operations of This Zine Will Change Your Life and I can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life the center of my growing lifestyle empire.

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