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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
medium-paced
i had the time of my life reading this and in FACT would have read it in one spectacular sitting had i not gotten a headache from my current lack of glasses. i digress! there's so much heart, humor, earnestness, and love packed in here. it feels so good to be excited about a joyful book like this!!!
An overall feel good book. The story was good, easy to follow and easy to read. A decent amount of humour with a little bit of love sprinkled it. Excited to read the other books in the series and would definitely read it again.
I am late to the party for this book - I had wanted to read it when it came out years ago but it just never made it far enough up the list. I am glad I finally read it - even though it is now a little dated and seems to cover ground that has been very thoroughly explored via television. It was still heartwarming and funny and a satisfying read, but I don't think I'll be reading the sequels.
There was a lot of this book where I identified with the narrator or at least had empathy for how he was feeling. But, overall, I found this just as ridiculous, far-fetched, and unpleasantly unrealistic as most of the rom-coms the author mentions at the end. The idea that this man's mental health issues could be overcome because he just decides to be more normal, that he decides to change his entire personality for the first woman he spends any time with, the implication that he could be "cured" or "made happier" by a woman and a week in New York - honestly, I found it rather offensive. The writing is well done, but using this man's condition and struggles as comic relief and then as a rom-com trope... distasteful. I actually was enjoying it, listening to him explore his inner life and feelings, until the end when all the rom-com stereotypes started showing up, which is why I'm giving it two stars instead of one.
A heart warming tale of an unaware neuro-divergent geneticist who starts a research project to find a wife. He learns a lot along the way with lots of giggles for the reader. I haven’t been rereading books a lot lately but I greatly enjoyed revisiting these characters.
I really liked this book. Don Tillman is quirky and most likely has Aspergers, which is hinted at in the book. He really would love to have a wife, but being the realistic person he is, decides to come up with a questionnaire for his wife project. I don't really just want to give you a summary of the book, because you should just read it. You really are rooting for Don on every page and it's definitely one of those books that are hard to put down.
I'm upgrading this to a 5 after a re-read. So funny and poignant.
I didn't find any of the characters to be likable, the way the main character was depicted was inaccurate and slightly offensive, and the plot was not what I expected it to be at all and I had no interest in it!
There was one very sweet moment when the main character and love interest have their first date, but after that the plot took a completely different direction that I wasn't interested in.
I really wanted to like this book, and it's been on my shelf for over 8 years, but unfortunately I just couldn't keep going without feeling bored.
There was one very sweet moment when the main character and love interest have their first date, but after that the plot took a completely different direction that I wasn't interested in.
I really wanted to like this book, and it's been on my shelf for over 8 years, but unfortunately I just couldn't keep going without feeling bored.