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    A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to Be One/For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One!
    A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to Be One/For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One!
    A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to Be One/For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One!
    Audiobook4 hours

    A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to Be One/For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One!

    Written by Felicity Huffman and Patricia Wolff

    Narrated by Shelly Frasier

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Most dating books are written for women-what a mistake that is. Women know how to date. . .it's men who need the help! At last: a blithe, bold, and bawdy guide to building a better boyfriend.

    At some point, every guy-player, geek, mama's boy, "regular Joe"-meets a woman who makes him want to be a boyfriend. A good boyfriend. Problem is, unless he's had some first-rate training (by a previous girlfriend, a sister, a mom), he probably doesn't even know what that means. Felicity Huffman and Patricia Wolff come to the rescue with a rollicking and whip-smart handbook to navigating the minefield of male-female relationships.

    Directed at men (though, of course, it's women who'll buy it, then leave it at their boyfriends' places-accidentally on purpose), A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend lays out the manly steps involved in becoming a good boyfriend while still maintaining guy-dignity. It covers issue like:

    -Who decides when you become a boyfriend? (Answer: She does) -How to look like you're listening, even when you're not (If you're busted, just say "You're so pretty, I'm distracted")
    -Ten things never to say on the first date (#4: "I just did that to freak you out")
    -Finding the middle ground between too cool (think third grade) and too eager (think surprise visits)
    -Why becoming a good boyfriend is a lot like training for the A-Team.

    Filled with humor, ribaldry, common sense, and assorted outdoor skills, A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend is the next dating guide to dominate the bestseller lists.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 6, 2007
    ISBN9781400173327
    A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to Be One/For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One!

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    • 4/5
      More fun than helpful, and frequently reductive. But the book design is gorgeous.
    • 5/5
      Funny, easy read. One of the best relationship books I've ever read -- makes women easy to understand for men, makes men easy to understand for women. All around entertaining, plus valuable.
    • 3/5
      some parts were really humorous but it lacked the really insightful parts that i looked forward to when i first picked up the book. there were a few good points but it didnt have a lot of helpful info and most of the things in the book were largely common sense not in depth stuff you look for in a handbook for a boyfriend
    • 3/5
      A light look at relationships from a man's perspective. Stereotypical, sometimes annoyingly so, but said with a great deal of humour. More for fun than selfhelp.