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Everything I Needed to Know about Women I Learned by Reading Twilight: A Vampire's Guide to Eternal Love
Update June 2009: Now available for non-Kindle readers at Scribd.com
Have you ever wondered why Twilight, the popular vampire romance series, has had such a strong pull on millions of readers? After years of successfully counseling couples through marital challenges, Jim Lee, Ph.D., believes he knows why. It's because Twilight accurately captures in fictional form the seven things a woman really wants from a man.
Join Lee in a fictional counseling experience in which he asks a client to read the Twilight books to better understand the woman he loves -- and to finally learn how to give her what Edward seems to give Bella so effortlessly. Along the way, you'll be introduced to The Seven Rules of Loving a Woman Forever as culled from the idealized vampires that attract millions of readers around the world to the Twilight series.
Any man who wants to faithfully love a woman should pay attention. Any woman who wants to understand what really motivates her approach to love and relationships should, too. Because it turns out that men really aren't from Mars after all. Instead, Men are from Transylvania and women are from Forks, Washington.
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From the first chapter:
“So how bad did it get, Garrett? You said she kicked you out. What happened?”
“Well,” at this he began to look sheepish and I drew up a mental list of nearby hotels where he could stay the night. “It turns out she was crying because she’d just finished a book that evidently made her realize what a bad husband I am.”
This intrigued me. I’ve run into many cases where a man’s fascination with pornography can make his wife have feelings of self-doubt, but rarely does a man get intimidated by, say, Mr. Darcy. “What book, do you know?”
“It’s some kind of vampire book.”
Now he had me really intrigued. Vampires, very interesting.
“It’s kind of silly, but she’s been totally into this vampire fantasy series called Sunset, or Sundown, or—“
“Twilight.” I said it more than asked it.
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Print publication rights available, for more information, contact jimleephd AT gmail.
Have you ever wondered why Twilight, the popular vampire romance series, has had such a strong pull on millions of readers? After years of successfully counseling couples through marital challenges, Jim Lee, Ph.D., believes he knows why. It's because Twilight accurately captures in fictional form the seven things a woman really wants from a man.
Join Lee in a fictional counseling experience in which he asks a client to read the Twilight books to better understand the woman he loves -- and to finally learn how to give her what Edward seems to give Bella so effortlessly. Along the way, you'll be introduced to The Seven Rules of Loving a Woman Forever as culled from the idealized vampires that attract millions of readers around the world to the Twilight series.
Any man who wants to faithfully love a woman should pay attention. Any woman who wants to understand what really motivates her approach to love and relationships should, too. Because it turns out that men really aren't from Mars after all. Instead, Men are from Transylvania and women are from Forks, Washington.
______
From the first chapter:
“So how bad did it get, Garrett? You said she kicked you out. What happened?”
“Well,” at this he began to look sheepish and I drew up a mental list of nearby hotels where he could stay the night. “It turns out she was crying because she’d just finished a book that evidently made her realize what a bad husband I am.”
This intrigued me. I’ve run into many cases where a man’s fascination with pornography can make his wife have feelings of self-doubt, but rarely does a man get intimidated by, say, Mr. Darcy. “What book, do you know?”
“It’s some kind of vampire book.”
Now he had me really intrigued. Vampires, very interesting.
“It’s kind of silly, but she’s been totally into this vampire fantasy series called Sunset, or Sundown, or—“
“Twilight.” I said it more than asked it.
______
Print publication rights available, for more information, contact jimleephd AT gmail.
82 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 2009
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May 16, 2009OMG. Someone has actually done it. This is un-freakin-believable. Someone actually took Meyer seriously on relationship tips? And wrote a book on it too! Hahahahahahahahaha! Dudes, it's surreal.
You know what? I would read the book! I would! If only to laugh a little. A day without laughter is a day wasted, right?
The title is, at first, quite confusing. In a moment of horror, I wondered what exactly the author had learnt about women from Twilight and what was the nature of the information he was distributing to the world at large...
Let's see...according to Twilight, we're shallow, selfish, klutzy, whiny, breathless and likely to faint at yummy BO. We love glittery, emo, older dudes and we're totally dependant on our boyfwens. Pff, who cares about family when we've got our hunks, right?
Don't forget, we fall completely and irrevocably in love with dudes who display stalker-ish tendencies, love bipolar dudes also, and we would be A-Okay if our ex fell in love with our half-vampire daughters so that he'd never bother us EVER AGAIN.
Oh. We're also nymphomaniacs who think the only good reason why we should delay becoming vampires is because we might be too preoccupied with other stuff to have sex.
*giggles nervously* Why wouldn't I be horrified?
But then, suddenly I got it...he didn't write about what women are like. EVERYBODY knows THAT. Pff. He wrote about what women WANT from men! Ahh...makes sense, makes sense...wait, WHAT?!
Well, if he learnt it from Twilight, the book could be summed up in five words: Women want Barbie's boyfriend--Ken.
That said, I'm probably still going to get the book, just for laughs.
You know what? I would read the book! I would! If only to laugh a little. A day without laughter is a day wasted, right?
The title is, at first, quite confusing. In a moment of horror, I wondered what exactly the author had learnt about women from Twilight and what was the nature of the information he was distributing to the world at large...
Let's see...according to Twilight, we're shallow, selfish, klutzy, whiny, breathless and likely to faint at yummy BO. We love glittery, emo, older dudes and we're totally dependant on our boyfwens. Pff, who cares about family when we've got our hunks, right?
Don't forget, we fall completely and irrevocably in love with dudes who display stalker-ish tendencies, love bipolar dudes also, and we would be A-Okay if our ex fell in love with our half-vampire daughters so that he'd never bother us EVER AGAIN.
Oh. We're also nymphomaniacs who think the only good reason why we should delay becoming vampires is because we might be too preoccupied with other stuff to have sex.
*giggles nervously* Why wouldn't I be horrified?
But then, suddenly I got it...he didn't write about what women are like. EVERYBODY knows THAT. Pff. He wrote about what women WANT from men! Ahh...makes sense, makes sense...wait, WHAT?!
Well, if he learnt it from Twilight, the book could be summed up in five words: Women want Barbie's boyfriend--Ken.
That said, I'm probably still going to get the book, just for laughs.
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January 27, 2010I need to read this for the same reason as everyone else: Man, I could really, really use a laugh.
October 2, 2009
What a hokey ending. The author was on to something, but it was no wonder he had to self-publish, with an ending like that!
September 10, 2010
The book had valid points but the ending was just a little too much - a little hokey, but funny in a slapstick kind of way
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