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Female Intelligence
Female Intelligence
Author: Jane Heller
Lynn Wyman has a wildly successful practice in sensitivity training, teaching men how to communicate better with the women in their lives. Little does she know that her sensitive husband has been "communicating" with another woman--in the bedroom... — With a marriage on the rocks and a career in nose-dive, Lynn is in desperate need of a life make...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312261597
ISBN-10: 0312261594
Publication Date: 4/21/2001
Pages: 335
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 22 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1
Funny, entertaining, and hilarous....
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Hilarious!!!
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To me, the back of the book made it sound like a wonderful funny read, but after reading the book that promise went unfullfilled. They book is well written but The humor failed me. The thought of "sensitivizing" a man would be funny but the story lines feed to the man went beyond sensible-I guess it would have been funnier if I were a more gossipy woman, but I have never found the need to relate to others on that shallow of a level. The repeated line of dessert going to the man's thighs as being a converstation starter between man and woman sounded fake to me. I guess to me a caring, interested man doesn't have to be a sterotypical "flitting female". As I said to enhance a male's awareness of his female side is one thing but to turn him into a gossipy high school girl with over active hormones just was a little too much for me. But as I said the idea of the story's good but the written story just didn't hit the mark for me. Not a bad work but not one I'd read again and again.
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Very funny beach reading. Laugh out loud humor and very fast paced. A very good story.
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Lynn Wyman is a self-help guru who has successfully used the "Wyman Method" to train men in the correct way to communicate with the women in their lives. But her whole practice falls apart when the media prints the story about her husband's affair and her credibility goes down the drain. After reading an article in Fortune magazine called "America's Toughest Bosses", Lynn decides to salvage her career by teaching CEO Brandon Brock how to talk to the women who work for him. The plan is perfect, but Brandon wants nothing to do with it...or her.

In this book, Jane Heller uses her trademark humor to mock the self-help industry. Lynn is a single-minded career woman who wants to salvage her career by landing a famous no-nonsense CEO as her client. Brandon is a chauvinist who believes women should be home taking care of the children. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, especially some of Lynn's teaching methods like driving her client out into the country, getting them lost, then making them ask for directions. My rating: 4 Stars.
FiberBabble avatar reviewed Female Intelligence on + 33 more book reviews
A Chinese food book, almost forgotten an hour after I was through with it. Light, fluffy, entertaining. The whole concept of "Womenspeak" came off as quite condescending, and the main character not all that likable. It's odd, though, because by the end I was still enjoying the book.
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This is a smart bood about getting what you want and this realizing that what you want isen't perfection.


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