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grahk1107's review against another edition
Jesus Christ. This man is insufferable. Truly yucky.
shiloniz's review against another edition
5.0
This is not a book for the faint of heart. You will not find romance here, or even laughter. It is the journey of one brutally honest man through the falling apart, denying, and dissolving of his marriage. This is not a book for people who cannot bare the weight of other's brokenness. If you want something real, raw, painful, and emotional than read this memoir. It is a book of a self in transition, a self discovering self. It is a book filled with the language of sex and desire, love and loss--fear, anxiety, depression, and death. Jay Ponteri's thoughts move fluidly, sometimes frantically through the pages. They are filled with a sense of urgency, unease, and regret. But, and this is a large BUT, there is also, hidden between the pages and the author's ability to understand his own humanness, a resounding note of hope.
markeefe's review against another edition
4.0
One could probably stereotype writers as people who have rich internal lives. In his memoir, Wedlocked, Portlander Jay Ponteri reveals the marital pitfalls that result from spending to much time inside his own head. This is especially true when, in Jay's case, his head is filled with prolonged and intricate fantasies of other women. Worse still, Ponteri's wife discovers his manuscript, in which he discloses the details of his ongoing flirtations with a particular barista and the imagined world he constructs around this young woman, Frannie. As much as this memoir concerns marriage, it also documents Ponteri's depression: the root cause of his dissatisfaction with reality. Jay explores both his mind and his marriage with great candor and skillful prose, blending narrative, scene, dialogue, and poetic streams-of-consciousness into a potent (and cringe-inducing) excavation of the self.
lpmccracken's review against another edition
4.0
Crazy book. Insightful, painfully honest, disturbing, fascinating. I should say that I know the author, so I may have read it differently if I didn't know him. I might have been really angry with him at times, but I wasn't. I appreciated the openness of it. And I feel naive for saying this, but do men really think about sex that often?
trillium9's review against another edition
5.0
You ever have a thought that's a little too real? Something that might really change your life, and perhaps not for the better, if you even put it into words, let alone told someone else about it? Well this book is filled with such thoughts cover to cover. It's riveting and unsettling, and despite being quite outside the genres I usually enjoy I loved it.
mohogan2063's review against another edition
3.0
My husband had more issues with the idea of this book than I did. Kudos to Jay, for writing his truth.
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