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    • 'The Alphabet of Manliness' will make you LOL
    • Not for the feint of heart! Yes, it is misogynist. Yes, it is demeaning toward women. No, it is not the best or even funniest book I have read in my life, but if you want to laugh at the idea of what this book stands for, and if you are not easily offended, I suggest you pick this up.

      The book's chapters are organized alphabetically and they pretty much are exaggerated parodies (IMO) of chauvinistic male behavior: "O is for Obedience", "A is for Ass-Kicking", "T is for Taunting", "Q is for Quickie", "C is for Copping a Feel", etc. It's pretty much a "how-to" manual on how to be the most obnoxious son-of-a-bitch alive, which the author, Maddox, makes himself out to be.

      Obviously, if you are a guy, you will find it funny as hell (maybe), but if you're a girl, you might not, but the thing about this book is just to take it lightly. That's what I kept telling myself when I was reading it. Yeah, I was offended by some stuff, but I considered the source, and I got through it relatively mentally unscathed. But if you think you can handle the sophomoric tone of the book, and laugh at how stupid Maddox is, go for it! :-)

       
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