Don't stand too close to a naked man
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From Kirkus Reviews
The spawn of Seinlanguage: shticky meditations by a stand-up comic who now stars in a top-rated television show. As Tim Taylor, Allen is the focal point of Home Improvement, but his manly-man persona plays off his wife, "Tool Time" cohorts, and other characters. Here we have Allen solo, closer to the stand-up mode, musing "about many things I want to say about being a man." His short chapters mainly consist of riffs on his past, his humor safely in the middle American mainstream. Born Timothy Allen Dick, he learned to cope with his unusual moniker through humor and thus segues into observations genitalistic. Allen resents women saying men's cars are linked to their penises: "What's an extension of the vagina--a purse?" His life was transformed, he writes, by a Playboy centerfold, and he does have some wise thoughts on objectification: "If we could have had sex with our cars and boats, it would have been a lot easier. But we'd be a smaller species." What should men "look for in a gal? The answer is easy: breath." Allen balances such cheap laughs with some insights, suggesting that women, like men, seek glitz in a partner but eventually settle for "the family station wagon." There's more: marriage, sports, and, of course, tools, leading to his innovative analysis of the impact of tool belts on butt cracks. He ends with some heartfelt sentiments on fatherhood. Allen only briefly touches on the traumas that have fueled his psyche: the death of his father in a car wreck when Tim was 11 and a prison sentence for selling drugs. (The lack of privacy in prison supplies the book's title.) More memoir and less shtick might have been a better balance here.
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The spawn of Seinlanguage: shticky meditations by a stand-up comic who now stars in a top-rated television show. As Tim Taylor, Allen is the focal point of Home Improvement, but his manly-man persona plays off his wife, "Tool Time" cohorts, and other characters. Here we have Allen solo, closer to the stand-up mode, musing "about many things I want to say about being a man." His short chapters mainly consist of riffs on his past, his humor safely in the middle American mainstream. Born Timothy Allen Dick, he learned to cope with his unusual moniker through humor and thus segues into observations genitalistic. Allen resents women saying men's cars are linked to their penises: "What's an extension of the vagina--a purse?" His life was transformed, he writes, by a Playboy centerfold, and he does have some wise thoughts on objectification: "If we could have had sex with our cars and boats, it would have been a lot easier. But we'd be a smaller species." What should men "look for in a gal? The answer is easy: breath." Allen balances such cheap laughs with some insights, suggesting that women, like men, seek glitz in a partner but eventually settle for "the family station wagon." There's more: marriage, sports, and, of course, tools, leading to his innovative analysis of the impact of tool belts on butt cracks. He ends with some heartfelt sentiments on fatherhood. Allen only briefly touches on the traumas that have fueled his psyche: the death of his father in a car wreck when Tim was 11 and a prison sentence for selling drugs. (The lack of privacy in prison supplies the book's title.) More memoir and less shtick might have been a better balance here.
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Not particularly insightful, this was funny in parts. I'd say that it would be funnier if I was male, but I'm sure my partner would disagree with me there...perhaps if you were the stereotypical male that Allen sends up on his almost forgotten tv show, then you'd find this book a hoot. Still, it got a few smiles out of me (no lol though) and the bit on fatherhood at the end was nice.
Dose up big on testosterone and beer before you read this - it'll be a lot more bearable.
Only took me a few hours to read, so I'm putting back in the Small Book book bag to let it keep travelling.
Dose up big on testosterone and beer before you read this - it'll be a lot more bearable.
Only took me a few hours to read, so I'm putting back in the Small Book book bag to let it keep travelling.
Picked out of the small book bag - tought it would be funnier than this - was an ok read
Journal Entry 4 by sally906 at Dog and Parrot Tavern in Robina, Queensland Australia on Friday, July 20, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (7/21/2007 UTC) at Dog and Parrot Tavern in Robina, Queensland Australia
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Taking along to Gold Coast Meet-up
Taking along to Gold Coast Meet-up
Journal Entry 5 by MadamMuck at RABCK in A RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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A filler for Crimson-tide's Happy Rabck parcel.
A filler for Crimson-tide's Happy Rabck parcel.
Journal Entry 6 by 
crimson-tide
from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, August 1, 2007
crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Arrived with lots of friends. Thanks MadamMuck.
I'm not a great Tim Allen fan, but we'll see . . .
I'm not a great Tim Allen fan, but we'll see . . .
Journal Entry 7 by crimson-tide at The Mushroom Cafe & Bakery in Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Friday, January 11, 2008
crimson-tide at The Mushroom Cafe & Bakery in Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Friday, January 11, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (1/10/2008 UTC) at The Mushroom Cafe & Bakery in Balingup, Western Australia Australia
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Very funny and truthful in parts but I too wondered if it would have been funnier if I were a male? Light and easy reading, with humour makes for a fun book.
