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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
A quite raw and honest diary of fatherhood, which leaves me with mixed feelings, but I think I'm better off for having read it.
2.5 stars but I'll round this one down. This book has some funny vignettes but overall I found it uninteresting. It's basically I was a mediocre father and some people thought I was crap and some people thought I was amazing for even trying at all. There is a large amount of space at the end devoted to his vasectomy. Weird book.
Lighthearted look at parenthood from the fathers point of view.
Will and I saw an interview with this guy on the Daily Show where he spoke of this book and he seemed so funny that we instantly bought it. Not it might be because I'm so starved for mental stimulation, or because this book is really this good, but I read the entire thing in one day. It's not very long so it isn't hard to do, but still. Anyway, I was very funny, and he seems like such a real person. I wish that everyone was able to so truthfully see themselves, and their actions.
Some of the stories were fun but many of them gave me a feeling of anger and frustration towards Lewis who is trying to laugh up the fact that he’s putting lots of labor onto his wife.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
This book was cheap. I've read a few of the author's other books and they aren't much better. He's just not that good.
Memory loss is the key to human reproduction.
Women go into labor, men go into waiting.
This author's wrong about self-soothing.
That's it.
Memory loss is the key to human reproduction.
Women go into labor, men go into waiting.
This author's wrong about self-soothing.
That's it.
Funny, but more for men than women. I sympathized with his wife too much.
Short review: I have been wanting to read something by Michael Lewis so I picked this up when I saw it on the Kindle Unlimited list. I mostly enjoyed it. I think we need more men to talk about their experiences with the changing role of fathers. And we need honesty about how that works. At times I still felt Lewis used the idiot Dad voice. Some of that was probably real ignorance and attempts to be honest about that. But others times it felt like he was just falling into the stereotype that was easy to fall into. The last chapter especially, about getting a vasectomy was a clear, 'Men are idiots' chapter. Yes some of that is funny, but still as a stay at home Dad, I am looking for more than Dads are idiots. I do not want to go back to 'Father Knows Best' or Superdads. But there has to be some middle ground where men can be less than perfect and less than an idiot.
There was a lot good here as well. So I don't want to give the impression it is worthless.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/home-game/
There was a lot good here as well. So I don't want to give the impression it is worthless.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/home-game/