How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible But Want to Try Anyway

by W. Bruce Cameron

Book Overview

How to Remodel a Man offers concrete, step by step instructions for actually changing the character and behavior of men. Keen insight into the male of the species by one of its own, will for the first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312333188
• ISBN13: 9780312333188
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Laugh Out Loud <LOL>

Buy this book ONLY if you want to "Laugh Out Loud." It has page after page of hilarious "helpful hints" -- ammunition for the ongoing battle of the sexes -- presented in a sillier, softer format, yet with a sly masculine slant. Chock-ful of light-hearted answers to everyday questions, like why a guy would want to go to a ball game in the snow wearing nothing but green greasepaint, the amusing text turns turns guff into guffaw. The author's comparison to the "map of Wyoming" is a pretty astute observation about what really goes on inside the male brain. On the flipside, the over-the-top mirth level takes some of the pain out of how much giving birth really hurts. Each chapter gets funnier. Presented ingenuously, the Seinfeld-like absurdity of everyday gender-specific topics forces readers to remind ourselves to laugh at/with, rather than leave, the significant other. I laughed so hard at the teaching the dog not to fart part that I dropped the book, and found my page again somewhere between wry and "way-witty." This writer is not just hilarious, he's absolutely hysterical! This Cameron dude takes humor writing to a whole new level. There's only one drawback: Jolly as it is, reading this book is a teensy bit sad because it makes you miss Erma Bombeck's newspaper column. I wish he would write a column for the major syndicates so we could pick up the newspaper and have a new laugh every day.

Sudy Hurst---current woman and recent reader of Bruce's book

Tired of War and Peace and want/need some fun, humorous reading? Read this book then! Page by page, the author highlights very funny facts about men that my male friends really do tell me they associate with and even find funny! My girlfriends think the book is hysterical and they make great gifts for book club or an easy read.......but only if you want to laugh!

Still chuckling

My wife kept laughing out loud while reading this book. I repeatedly asked to "borrow" it, but she had to share it with all her friends first. I finally had to buy my own copy! And I find myself laughing (at least chuckling) over Cameron's unique and sort of crazy sense of humor. I don't think I'm ready for remodeling (don't ask my wife), but I recognize myself on almost every page. I'm just macho enough to consider my traits "endearing." Would like to see a sequel about remodeling a woman !!

Hilarious and absolutely true!!

Laughed until I cried...can't decide which I like better, his meetings with his children in 8 Simple Rules or this book, which talks about men's inability to ask for directions, find things in the fridge, etc. Great book to read a little each night before bed or to give as a gift. What a great Christmas present for DAD, HUSBAND, BOYFRIEND, ADULT SON, Etc. I can't wait for his next one.

I Loved This Book!

I loved this book because it made fun of guys, but made me like guys all the more in the end. It seems like so often these books are written by women who don't like guys very much and they leave me feeling sad. Also, it is so full of laugh out loud hilarious stuff that my husband kept grabbing it away from me in bed, because I kept laughing so hard. What was great was that he thought all the stuff about what goofballs men are was funny too! Every woman dreams of actual being able to remodel their man, and surprisingly this book actually provides some insights into the way men think that could help you get along with your guy better. But in the end, I liked the message that the best way to get a guy to act the way you'd like is to love him, and then he'll automatically want to try and please you. Everybody always wants to bash men, but because this writer is so brutally honest about his own bad habits and flaws, it kind of made me see the guy's side of the picture. It also seems like he genuinely likes women, and thinks we are more evolved, which is of course true. I think this book would be a great gift for a girlfriend whose just gone through a breakup, because in the end, it would make her feel that no way is the perfect guy out there, but a real guy is out there, and real guys aren't perfect, but they are doing their best, flawed creatures that they are.