Rating: 2 stars

When I first heard of this book, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy. Scheduled to read MANY other books, I have finally gotten around to reading it and I have to say… I’m bored. Yes, there are very funny lines and yes, I’ve even laughed out loud; but they’re few and far between.

Written in the he said/she said format, Kahn and Gurwitch recount the tumultuous early years when they first met, getting married many years later and immediately starting a family.

After a few chapters I started dreading her side because the more I read, the more she sounded like a psychotic shrew. By the middle of the book my only thought was, “Why in the hell did this guy go out of his way to marry this woman?” Page after page, all I’m reading is Annabelle isn’t happy. Annabelle ripped my head off. Annabelle shouldn’t be allowed in public before noon and then only after imbibing three cups of coffee. Annabelle sounds more like something you release on a game farm and hunt, not someone you marry.

Then, not much longer after that, I started dreading his side; all he seems to talk about is sex. I know what you’re saying, “Well, he is a man”; Kahn manages to even exceed that stereotype. The more I read, the more explicit the ramblings and I found myself laughing less and less.
In between talking about Annabelle’s anger jags and Jeff’s never ending request to “return to the pussy”, they had a son born with multiple birth defects and much of the book was then devoted to the boy’s care.

The only thing I managed to cull from this declarative volley is that Annabelle will apparently be unhappy with or without Jeff and Jeff may have a better chance of keeping his manhood in tact by standing on a live Claymore. Needless to say, in the end, I’m not sure what they were trying to accomplish with this book; although it has a great title.
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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (February 23, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0307463777