Three fools says it all......
Sometimes I get a book to read and review and I literally find myself questioning why I am reading the book and often asking myself why some people are so willing or even foolish enough to write down all the dumb mistakes they have made for others to read. Such is the case with this book.
Its a book I was only able to read here and there and not in a few sittings where one is absorbed and cannot bear the idea of not reading. Just the opposite here. To the point I almost felt I needed to shower to clean myself off once I had read some of the book and then set it down. So I simply would read ten pieces before I would go to shower before going to bed, where I would the pick up a more serious and stimulating book to read before going to sleep.
For shy 250 pages all one reads is one story after another of three college fraternity men (and their friends) who act stupid, do stupid things, use and abuse women and then boast about it. Little brain use, to the point I began to ask myself what company has hired these men now.
I say this as the mother of eight sons (7 foster) who are all healthy sexual but also sane and responsible men who were raised not to use women. Which is what turned me off of this book. Who raised these men? Were they not taught to respect women or even themselves? Heck I even found myself feeling not the least bit bad when in one piece I read of one psycho woman who scared the bejeevers out of the guy even to the point of trying to run him down and then ending up on his front porch.
Its the final parts of the book 'The Obscene Conclusion' that saves the book. On page 250 they write that many of their friends were both proud and yet ashamed to know them. That their friends partners forbid them from speaking to them unsupervised. That they were told only an illiterate woman would marry them, and yet their comeback was that there is nothing in the book that 'there's nothing in this book that some other guy out there hasn't already done'. One guy yes. ALL men NO.
Then then write 'We've also learned there is a freak trapped inside every woman just wanting to be set free'. Freak? Have these guys even read a dictionary? But then they write 'Probably the most significant thing we learned about ourselves is that our own perspective of what constitutes 'normal behavior' is a little warped compared to most peoples'. No kidding.
I actually hope more women read the book, even if its standing in the bookstore without buying it. Because it provides some valuable lessons in what not to look for in a man. And which men you don't want you sister or friends getting involved with. The fact their email has threefools in the name says it all.
