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  <title><![CDATA[What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer]]></title>
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  <default_description>Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames&amp;#8217; problems&amp;#8211;and the genesis of this hilarious book&amp;#8211;can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty.  After all it can&amp;#8217;t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless &amp;#8220;undistinguishable from that of a five year old&amp;#8217;s.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This wonderfully entertaining memoir is a touching and humorous look at life in New York City.  But this is life for an author who can proclaim &amp;#8220;my first sexual experience was rather old-fashioned: it was with a prostitute&amp;#8221;&amp;#8211;an author who can talk about his desire to be a model for the Hair Club for Men and about meeting his son for the first time. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Often insightful, sometimes tender, always witty and self-deprecating, &lt;b&gt;What&amp;#8217;s Not to Love?&lt;/b&gt; is an engaging memoir from one of our most funny, most daring writers.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[oh-my-god.<br/>a friend lent this to me. its really good. reminiscent (sp?) of paul neilan, for those who liked apathy. <br/>i was so impressed, i spilt a coffee on this borrowed book. so i guess i own it now...<br/>oops.<br/>-------------<br/><br/>Update:<br/>I am in LOVE with Jonathan Ames....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43769368">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was at a party when a friend of a friend started talking about Jonathan Ames. I was intrigued, so I ordered this book from the library. And I found that I love Jonathan Ames, but I would not recommend his work to everyone. He's really perverse. He likes to write about his strange sexual habits. He...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62681105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[jonathan ames, he's the man.. he's the the george plimpton of the colon (as he claimed himself).. the master of the art of self-mockery.. the pain in my impotent knowledge of life.. he's the sex!! he knows it all!! sickening puberty, masturbation, homosexuality, cracks, hot momma, porn, herpes, bald...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22363561">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 31 20:42:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The essay that introduced me to Ames, &quot;I Shit My Pants in the South of France,&quot; is one of the standouts in this collection of musings. I like and respect Ames' frank perversity; it's an approach to the essay I hadn't encountered before. Plus, as I've said in other reviews of tales with sim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69639598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31500478">
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    <body><![CDATA[The topics in this book are in turn touching, funny, repulsive, and outrageous. I truly wanted to be horrified by the perversion, but I found it too funny and odd. The book is skillfully written. Mr. Ames balances between quizzical amusement of his quirks and admitting he truly is a bit of a freak. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31500478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love him.  I saw him read once and I thought he was really smug and overly impressed with himself so I refused to read anything by him, then I read &quot;Wake Up, Sir&quot; and now this and they are both so hilarious, but also honest and sweet.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="69822716">
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 02 11:36:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Ames. His stories have a &quot;how did I end up here&quot; quality to them I like. He's a somewhat dispassionate observer of his passions, almost 19th century in his voice.  I tend to binge on authors, and he's a current subject of gluttony.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I come back to this book when I am crabby or taking myself too seriously. Nothing is a better pretentious-self killer than snorting and laughing all through the cross-town bus over tales of colon cleanse and the mangina. ]]></body>
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    <review id="42604978">
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    <body><![CDATA[you know when you start laughing to yourself in public and try to stop which makes it worse, and you feel like a total nob? Yes,that will happen to you. Just make sure youre in full public view for maxim effect.   ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this book.  Some of it is humorous, some of it is absurd.  Some of it is hard to believe.  I can't decide if I like the guy, or think he's totally off his nut.]]></body>
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    <review id="42873968">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 14:11:23 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gift from my friend Stephen, who moved to the Czech Republic. Yay!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't tend to laugh out loud at books...this one caused me to make an ass of myself in public.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truly, truly hilarious.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this quite a while back. It was good. Long time ago, I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice" title="Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen">The Extra Man</a>, I Pass Like Night, and I Love You More Than You Know. Those were good too. Each one is unique. I'm not sure how much you'd be able to tell, if you didn't know he had authored them all. What do you think?<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7741736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ames certainly seems more than merely &quot;mildly&quot; perverted. More like elementally perverted. But he is also very conscious of this and, in the end, we are probably all fairly perverted so he gets a pass for being extra human. He also reminds me of a more extreme version of a friend of mine. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47555983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Ames was artist-in-residence or somesuch at Indiana University during my final semester there, and I immediately fell in love with him. He's filthy and insane and hilarious and sad and poignant. Be sure to catch him doing a reading if you can; his strengths on the page are only magnified in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5289994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Ames' collection of his essays for the New York Daily news about his own life are filled with heart breaking humor and stories too funny to miss.<br/><br/>His ability to lay his deepest, darkest fantasies and actions bare, naked for his readers while remaining funny is nothing short of shoc...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the author is a sicko, plain and simple. its a collection of short stories all about his life. many are sexually related, although not all. but he is no tucker maxx. he is not gloating, in fact he should be embarassed by a lot of his actions. the book is funny and gross]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only New York City could invent a man like Jonathan Ames.  He's funny and one wishes to actually know him.  But I don't.   But that I think his is talent.  He draws the reader into his own quirky world - and he is also very good-natured chap.   So yeah, I am a fan.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is pretty funny, especially if your development has been arrested as a 13-year-old boy, and you are endlessly entertained by secretions and sex.  Even if you haven't been stunted, it's still pretty funny.]]></body>
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