Synopses & Reviews
Current research suggests there is a large group of people who have been trying to change men. For want of a better term, let's call these people "women."
Their urge is understandable. We've all had to take measures to accommodate men, because they are involved in nearly every aspect of modern life except maybe housework and they like to run things like corporate meetings and the planet. The only other alternative has been to try to avoid men altogether, which is pretty hard to do if you are interested in stuff like reproduction or having your oil changed.
That's why How to Remodel a Man is so indispensable-it is a clear, step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to alter the character and behavior of a man, written by an actual man. Author W. Bruce Cameron provides startling insight into male pattern thinking, explaining why men can open a refrigerator and not see the mayonnaise, or how it is that they can throw dirty clothes at the hamper or in front of the hamper or even on top of the hamper and yet not seem capable of getting any of it in the hamper.
Normally, changing a man has certain obstacles, including, but not limited to, the fact that it is impossible. But Cameron is able to overcome this hindrance because he, himself, has been remodeled. In a move so bold it may be shocking to people unaccustomed to such personal courage, Cameron turned himself over to the women in his life and asked them to change him. It started with a list of his flaws (Cameron came up with four; the women came up with one hundred seventy eight) and ended with him writing How to Remodel a Man, so that others could learn from his experience.
If you're a woman, you'll be amazed to learn that men can be trained to perform all sorts of tricks, like using the instruments on the sides of their heads (the ears) to listen to you, and the space between those instruments to think about you.
If you're a man, you've been given this book so that you'll see that it's possible to watch television without holding the remote or to ask for directions from strangers without suffering a catastrophic loss of testosterone. Cameron changed, and you can too.
How to Remodel a Man is the essential guide for anyone in the awkward position of having to interact with a person of the male gender.
Review
“W. Bruce Cameron is the Dave Barry of modern family life.”—John Temple,
Rocky Mountain News
Review
"Make[s] the reader laugh out loud.”—
USA Today
"An entertaining trip...”—Toronto Star
"It's a book only Cameron could write.... Down to earth and funny, funny, funny.”— The National Society of Newspaper Columnists
"[A] hilarious, tongue-in-cheek read.”—Toronto Sun
Synopsis
From the author of the New York Times bestseller, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, a hilarious send up of a perennial self-help subject: how to change a man.
Synopsis
From the author of the New York Times bestseller, 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter, a hilarious send-up of a perennial self-help subject—how to change a manWhy cant men open a refrigerator and see the mayonnaise? This and other confounding questions about the male species are illuminated
in How to Remodel a Man. The vast scope of the book is revealed in the chapter headings:
• Men Just Figure It Would Be Easier If Women Changed Instead
• Why Piles Are Invisible
• Socks in Front of the Hamper
• Sports: Both a Metaphor and Substitute for Real Life
• When Men Shout at the Television
• A Cure for the Wet Sandwich
• A New Gadget Changes Everything
• When the Sink Looks Like It Needs a Shave
• The Horror of Feng Shui
This ground-breaking book is a essential for anyone who is related to a man in any fashion.
Synopsis
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 time shed light on such mysterious subjects as "Why can't men open a refrigerator and see the mayonnaise?"
With clear, step-by-step instructions for actually altering the character and behavior of the male of the species, youll learn:
- What to do when men pretend not to be able to do housework
- How to tell a man that no matter how much he yells at the television, hes not really a member of the team
- Why the male body smells like it is decomposing
- What to do when men cut themselves on the competitive edge
- How to contact the male brain via the ears
- About tools and why men need to have all of them
- Men may be from Mars but theyre not going back
- About changing the toilet paper roll—a 12 step program
- How to take a man to the opera and what to do about the resulting coma
- Why men think shirts have a sniff test
- How to train a man to put the toilet seat down even though hes got lots of good arguments why it should be left up
This ground-breaking book is a must-read for anyone who is related to a man in any fashion.
Synopsis
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 time shed light on such mysterious subjects as "Why can't men open a refrigerator and see the mayonnaise?"
With clear, step-by-step instructions for actually altering the character and behavior of the male of the species, youll learn:
- What to do when men pretend not to be able to do housework
- How to tell a man that no matter how much he yells at the television, hes not really a member of the team
- Why the male body smells like it is decomposing
- What to do when men cut themselves on the competitive edge
- How to contact the male brain via the ears
- About tools and why men need to have all of them
- Men may be from Mars but theyre not going back
- About changing the toilet paper roll—a 12 step program
- How to take a man to the opera and what to do about the resulting coma
- Why men think shirts have a sniff test
- How to train a man to put the toilet seat down even though hes got lots of good arguments why it should be left up
This ground-breaking book is a must-read for anyone who is related to a man in any fashion.
About the Author
No one had heard of W. BRUCE CAMERON, when he started his Internet-based humor column in 1995, but within a year he was the most widely distributed humorist on the World Wide Web. His column on raising teenagers inspired such a response he expanded it into the book
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The book became a
New York Times bestseller and the basis for the TV show
8 Simple Rules on ABC. He is currently working on turning
How to Remodel A Man into a TV series. Now a nationally syndicated columnist, he lives in Santa Monica, California, with his teenage son.