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Ironic snippets of love and relationships with an extremely self-centered focus--I think Rich did a very good job on catching the essence of what dating is like for our contemporaries. Yet, somehow the prose is not just sarcastic. There is a lot of warmth and honesty hidden between the messages even though you can't help but feel like the author is sipping whole trade coffee through neon Ray-bans while writing all this down on an Apple machine. I suppose it's because no matter how cool one acts, no matter how much we try to hide it with humor, love is still a very involving experience that forces those engaged to be vulnerable and honest. And this is also the reason why so many authors of this topic, including Simon Rich with this anthology, finds it such a topic of intrigue and something more substantially real than a hidden terrorist attack that can potentially destroy the world as we know it.

Great book for a "Child of Dirt" to read right before Valentine's Day.

Side note: since the book really is written a lot from the guy's perspective... Do guys really think like this in a lot of their relationships? I always suspected the answer to be yes, but it really is strange that the perspective seems always consistent regardless of the format it takes, including the nonsensical humor approach like this one.