alleyboop 's review for:

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

2.0

informative slow-paced

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I have had this book on my shelf for sometime and have been meaning to read to help improve my dialogue in writing. Ironically I thought it would be fun to read while I was in a budding relationship and couldn’t understand the guy. Overall the book is fine and said what I thought. I got 100 pages in and it felt repetitive. Given this was written in the 90s, I opted to skim around and it seemed the general message was same and there was only a paragraph at end that touched on cultural and how gender identity could change this. Expected again for the 90s. So overall, a bit to predicable for me in terms of research and content. But ultimately felt very narrow in view.