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Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid?: The Serial Monogamist's Guide to Love

by Carina Chocano

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ISBN13: 9780812992144
ISBN10: 0812992148
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Publisher Comments:

With intelligence, breadth, and a bad attitude, Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? parodies conventional relationship guides by taking a frank and funny look at failed relationships, bad dates, living together, serial monogamy, and other dysfunctional aspects of modern love relationships. While satirizing the format and pointers that permeate these ubiquitous guides, Chocano reflects on cornerstones of today's relationships, such as:
-- Serial Monogamy for Beginners, or the phenomenon of jumping from one long-term relationship to the next and how you can make the most of it
-- Living Together, the Noncommittal Commitment
-- Things to Do on a Date: If, in Fact, That's What This Is
-- Boing! The Anatomy of a Rebound
-- You and Your Precious Feelings
-- When Thinking Too Much Is Not Enough

In addition, Chocano attempts to resolve such probing questions as "In Love or Insane?" and "But Exactly How Great Is He?" With helpful checklists and charts, this book will delineate the gap between the world of chirpy advice books and the often dysfunctional (yet irresistible) reality of all unhallowed unions everywhere. Do You Love Me or Am I just Paranoid? is a wickedly funny book for anyone who isn't single but not yet married either.

Review:

“Chocano's book is unlike any relationship manual you'll ever read: It's intentionally hilarious.”

Dan Zevin, author of The Day I Turned Uncool

Review:

“In our quick-fix, feel-good culture, Carina Chocano provides an indispensable alternative: a guide to living a compromised, turbulent, and pitiably wrong-headed life. Her book is not so much a breath of fresh air as a whiff of something fetid and unseemly that has been left in the refrigerator too long. You will laugh, cry, read it aloud to your inadequate boyfriend, then cry some more. Quite a lot more.”

Rebecca Mead

Synopsis:

Wallowing in the murky haze of unhallowed unions everywhere, Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? offers solutions to some of life’s most vexing relationship predicaments, such as:

•Things to Do on a Date—If, in Fact, That’s What This Is

•Living Together vs. Marriage: A Handy Guide to Telling Them Apart

•Why Wait? Making the Most of a Rebound

•But Exactly How Great Is He?

•Are You in Love or Insane?

Product Details

ISBN:
9780812992144
Author:
Chocano, Carina
Publisher:
Random House
Location:
New York
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
Form - Parodies
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
13
Publication Date:
January 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
7.90x4.28x.38 in. .24 lbs.

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