The Hookup Handbook: A Single Girl's Guide to Living It Up

by Andrea Lavinthal, Jessica Rozler

Dating is a thing of the past, gone the way of dinosaurs and stirrup pants. It's extinct. Kaput. Over. It's given way to two mighty opponents: In one corner, wearing matching sweats and cuddling up to DVDs every Friday night, we have the Serious Couple. In the other corner, armed with open bar tabs and clad in his-and-hers Seven jeans, the Hookup. By the looks of things, for the millions of people who bravely head out each night in search of this wily conquest, the Hookup is the new heavyweight champion -- and hooking up is here to stay.

In The Hookup Handbook, Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler have braved the hookup trenches to bring you the essential guide to the new, nondating game -- from the players and locations to the long walk of shame home.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

When she isn’t writing books with her friend Jessica Rozler, Andrea Lavinthal is an editor at Cosmopolitan. She lives, works, and shops in New York City.

Reviews

[Kat]

I'm hoping Patti will offer good advice on CHEATING in this book.

[Serena · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wouldn’t have just picked this up for pleasure reading, but it was definitely one of the more entertaining books I’ve read for a class.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

From a blog post I wrote in 2005:

This was an impulse pickup at the library. The full title is The Hookup Handbook - A Single Girl's Guide to Living It Up and it's by Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler. It was pretty frickin' funny. They talk about the different types of hookups, "The Walk Of Shame" and the dangers of drunken dialing to potential hookups.

Here's some stuff out of the summary from the book:

All We Really Need to Know We Learned from Hooking Up
(Well, Maybe Not Quite, But...)

Three hookups do not a boyfriend make.

Guy friends are great for hanging out with but usually make for a hookup disaster (unless, of course, you get magically beamed up into a Meg Ryan movie).

Yes, he really was a as painfully boring as your friends kept telling you.

Wearing sweatpants in front of your hookup is the quickest way to end things.

Know when to see him free: A little drama in your life is fun, but too much is a Lifetime movie.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Superbly funny and successfully bring forth the more unabrigged definition in the so called difficult thing to define entity worldly known as hook-up. Laugh till you drop!

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Funny book, and funny to see this stuff from a girl's POV.

[Tisha · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is hilarious.

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only read 65% of this because it promotes promiscuity without any caution regarding STD's. Is amusing at times.

[Paras · Rating 4 out of 5]

ONe of the most amazingly hilarious books..
P.S. Keep it away from boys ;)

[Vanessa Maxwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wasn't really into it. I was ready to enter into the dating field thought it may be useful, but it was on a different level ie "hookup" than starting anew and creating a relationship.

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is anecdotal and silly. It's a very frivolous read.

[Summer Heeney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wasn't really into it. I was ready to enter into the dating field thought it may be useful, but it was on a different level i.e hookup than starting a new and creating a relationship.

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

So funny! Great witty humor :)

[Paula · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was so funny!! Not to be taken seriously but also completely and utterly true.

[Merary · Rating 5 out of 5]

For those promiscuous women who want to have a good laugh. :)