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I found this book in an international airport terminal's book store, and was really pleased to have done so.
I have always been fascinated by men and how they think, feel, and behave. I always have felt to better understand a man or men would allow me to have better relationships with them. I believe that this is true.
This book allowed me to do this and gave me further insight from the male perpective, ironically from a women experiencing what it is like to be a man by living as one. (By the way ...more
I have always been fascinated by men and how they think, feel, and behave. I always have felt to better understand a man or men would allow me to have better relationships with them. I believe that this is true.
This book allowed me to do this and gave me further insight from the male perpective, ironically from a women experiencing what it is like to be a man by living as one. (By the way ...more
Norah Vincent writes about some intriguing gender dynamics after she dresses as a man in various environments for a year and a half. However, the book's biggest failing comes from her hyperempathy with men. It's OK if the guys in her bowling league tell racist, homophobic, and sexist jokes because they make fun of everyone equally. Really? And the monastery where she spent a few weeks was simply too rarefied an environment for examining all-male space.
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The experiment Vincent performed on herself is a fascinating one but it is completely lost here due to bad writing. She has no story-telling ability to speak of and turned what was an emotional experience into a synopsis, theme-category style, of her time researching for this book.
Wasn't bad but maybe could've been better- I don't know. I found parts interesting & some of it seemed to drag- 2 thumbs up to Norah Vincent tho - took balls to do what she did.
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Jul 29, 2012
Evilblacksheep
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did not like it
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This book was a disappointment.
It started with an interesting pitch and great expectations but I got totally bored in the middle of it because of the lack of consistency in the writing and the investigations. The conditions of the experiment are never clearly established and in the end it sounds like a big bag of clichés and not really what you could expect from the summary.
It started with an interesting pitch and great expectations but I got totally bored in the middle of it because of the lack of consistency in the writing and the investigations. The conditions of the experiment are never clearly established and in the end it sounds like a big bag of clichés and not really what you could expect from the summary.
Jun 08, 2009
Sara
marked it as to-read
Jun 25, 2009
Heather
marked it as to-read
