I Love You, Nice to Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up

by Kevin Bleyer and Lori Gottlieb

Book Overview

A hilarious, razor-sharp look at the mating rituals of the dating species. Lori and Kevin are smart, honest, funny thirtysomething hopeless romantics who--despite their best efforts--are still single. They've seen it all in the dating wars and come back from the front with plenty of emotional scar tissue. Like romance anthropologists, they deconstruct every key moment in the life cycle of a relationship from what the fake purse grab really means when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312340087
• ISBN13: 9780312340087
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Can you date a book?

Funny, "I Love You, Nice to Meet You" are the same sentiments I had as soon as I read the first few pages of this book. Like a good date, this book is packed with wit, humor, irresistibility, and, charm. And, like a good relationship, this book offers heart-felt truths, wisdom, and insights if you're ready for them. Kevin and Lori ("the guy and the girl") share their personal experiences, perspectives, and humor on "coupling up," falling down, and getting back up again. A he-said/she-said look at the anatomy of a relationship--from the first date to the "ex-sightings" (and all the rewarding, funny, annoying, and painful milestones in between)--this book offers both a fresh look and a guide book for coupling up without selling out. It seems quite obvious that every word the authors write reflects the experiences they've really encountered, survived, and learned (or are still learning) from. If you're currently dating, pondering dating, sworn off dating (again), or, uh, just human, this book is likely to offer (so much) more than just a good time. Just like a good date...

laugh-out-hilarious

Best book about dating and relationships. Better than "He's not that into you," better than "You're not into him either," "It's called break-up because it's broken." Very witty quips (especially Kevin's). I have never laughed this much for a book. I borrowed a copy at the library, but I quickly ordered my own copy because I will be reading it often when I need a good laugh or a healthy reminder how men and women are universally different in so many cookie ways.

HILARIOUS AND INSIGHTFUL -- the BEST new book about love

This is the funniest book I've read in a long time -- I was actually laughing out loud and stopping to call friends and read portions of the book to them. But despite the hilarious observations of both authors (who say they aren't dating but I can't understand why not -- they're both incredibly witty and clever and seem to have a natural rapport), I actually found their insights to be valuable. They made me look at male/female relationships differently at times, which is saying something in this era of "He Said/She Said" books that just recycle stereotypical notions from popular culture. I LOVE YOU, NICE TO MEET YOU, on the other hand, is absolutely unique -- it's both memoir (of the authors' own dating experiences) and fresh cultural critique. It also has some poignant, tear-jerking stories that we can all relate to (especially in the parts about breaking up) and deals with topics we're all familiar with, but that nobody else seems to have written about, either in quite the same way, or at all. Most of all, this book is wonderfully entertaining! Great to take to the beach or curl up with in bed at night. Read it alone, or share it with your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse. A GREAT read!!

Hilarious

Okay, this is obviously a huge take off on "those other books" - but I have to say, I loved it.... What I loved about this book is the fact that the authors, unlike "those other books" state their stories (from their own experiences) but do not try to shove down our throats a "moral" or "lesson" in each experience. The humour is great and both authors are self-depracating - which is great, for those of us who do not really want to be hit over the head with yet "another" how to relationship book. Its obvious these authors intended to write this books as part memoir (part therapeutic process perhaps?) - nonetheless this is a serious, fun, humourous look at the dating world. Buy it.