A Guy's Guide to Dating: Everything You Need to Know About Love, Sex, Relationships, and Other Things Too Terrible to Contemplate

Bought this as a gag gift for a recently divorced friend. It achieved its purpose. It comes across as a gag...maybe that was the author's idea. Written for the anti-social shy, petrified dork who has no chance with women. Maybe even more so after reading this book. It shares the occasional morsels of truth, but for the most part is written tongue in cheek. This book came out way before all the great PUA titles. Perhaps in its day it was a prize. If you find Mystery Method, et al to be too much to stomach, than give this one a try. Or maybe send it to a friend to make him feel hopeless. Worked for me.

Was funny, cute, but really this book reminds me of the old phrase "everything I wanted to know I learned in kindergarden"...not worth the money.

If you want to laugh and roll around in the author's fluffy, meaningless self-indulgence, by all means buy this book. If you're serious about life, your own happiness and meaningful partnering, there are dozens and dozens of books you should read first. This book is just a shallow little stunt -- and I'm not the only reviewer who thinks so. Baber is more interested in showcasing his legend-in-his-own-mind wit than he is in increasing your chances of finding a compatible partner. I'm sure he had fun writing it, but I'm not sure it's worth your attention.

I'll lead off with why I bought this book. I'd browsed it in the bookstore several times, giggling hysterically every time. One time, I left off after reading that after getting married, instead of going out, married couples had dinner parties, and instead of beer, they had wine and cheese.I get home that evening. On my voice-mail is an invitation from a newly married friend, inviting me to a dinner party, and they'd provide the wine and cheese.I bought this book the next day.Honestly, this book really isn't that helpful. After all, you don't need to know how to handle the opposite sex in kindergarten by the time you can read this. However, their humor is insightful, clever, and extremely good. And, as a bonus, almost everything they say is true. You already know it, of course, one way or another, but it's still a good way of putting things.Plus, it's the funniest book I've ever read. I highly recommend it.

Loved this book! Picked it up in a used book Cafe in Soho and couldn't stop reading it. Two of the floor staff dialed 911 as they thought I was having a coronary, I was laughing so loud.I came to this site because I couldn't locate their other title -- Planet Baywatch (although if you read their first page in the dating book, they take credit for everything from the bible to ...). Good book. Pick it up! It'll help you cope a little with your last date from hell!

This book is a great gift for any single guy. It's indeed hilarious, yet much of the advice is remarkably to the point. I gave it to my college age brother, and it has become a "dating bible" for him and buddies. Bravo Spitznagel and Baber!

This is the bible for figuring out why your date is always foaming at the mouth even when she's in a good mood. Why you are always wrong when you haven't even done anything.Read this book if you haven't gotton any action since the Kennedy administration and let these two hilarious, probably virgins, explain why.