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| I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Sane, Slightly Neurotic (but in a Sane Way) Filmmaker into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a Little ... Point Anyone Who'll Let Me Watch Football | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Schaeffer
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (44 reviews)
Sales Rank: 137641
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Thunder's Mouth Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1568583370
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430233092
EAN: 9781568583372
ASIN: 1568583370
Publication Date: April 25, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Shocking February 10, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
My sister lives in the big city and for the past five years or so, I've listened to her stories about how terrible New York men are. I have to confess that I often wondered whether she and her friends were the problem (sorry, L!), wordlessly communicating something that triggered wimpy and, often enough, despicable male behavior. I changed my mind when she sent me a copy of "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single," which belongs in a psychiatry curriculum--Misogyny 101. Mr. Schaeffer acts like a spoiled teenager, either using women solely for his sexual satisfaction, or imagining a girl is "the one" when he has barely met her (if a girl did the same with him, I'm sure he -and anyone else- wouldn't hesitate to call her insane), expecting total devotion and attention from women he's known for about five minutes, belittling independence, and assuming that the women in his life must revolve around him. Should they be uninterested in life as a satellite, Mr. Schaeffer concludes they have a problem. And he wonders why he's still single.
If Mr. Schaeffer were twenty years old, his behavior would be somewhat excusable (I haven't forgotten some of the horrible things I did as a stupid kid whose main goal in life was getting laid, although I never dreamed of knocking a girl unconscious so I could have my way with her). But this is a forty-four-year old guy, a man who has already lived at least half of his life and, in the process, has obviously learned nothing. Women dump him, reject his advances, flee him; critics lambaste his movies--and still, he's convinced all of them are wrong and he's always right. It can't be easy to have a father who practices serial marriage, but at certain point a man has to assume responsibility for his actions, and Mr. Schaeffer past that point many years ago. The other thing I find shocking are the positive reviews , defending his behavior and ignoring the textbook signs of his misogyny, egotism and delusion. If that's what passes for "normal" in New York, then I'm making sure my baby sister gets the hell out of there (you hear me, L?)
 Retaliation, Finally! February 2, 2008
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
Eric paints the male perspective of the Sex and the City circuit. Way deep, way telling, way fun. Many scenes from the book can be seen in Eric's work on the screen, like from the movie Fall or If Lucy Fell or Mind the Gap
When is Part II coming out? Thanks for all the laughs, Rudolf Waldner, author of Marketing from the Trenches: Your Guide to Retail Success
OMG January 27, 2008
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is hilarious. It had me laughing on the first page. You have to read this book!
A fun, easy read December 11, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've just finished this book - with a smile. I haven't heard of Eric Schaeffer before, just picked the book by chance in a bookstore in the US.
I enjoyed the read and heartily laughed many times, though I do understand why he is single. I don't find his disclosures brutal in any way and I was really grateful for all the kinky insights. The way he writes about it, doesn't make it sound dirty at all, just immensely funny. And I appreciated the honesty. Though I'm a woman and did feel hurt by his judgements at times (mainly about April ...and "Sex and the City"), I could easily identify with his feelings many other times.
As it's not a great book, but an enjoyable, easy read, 3 stars from me.
It isn't pretty...love seldom is. November 26, 2007
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
Eric Schaeffer has intrigued me ever since seeing FALL some time ago. His movies seem to pop into my life at the exact moment I absolutely need to be reminded that at least one person in this world understands. This book shows love and relationships in all their vivisected glory. He doesn't lie. He doesn't even gloss things over. It is a rare event when an author truly reveals our humanity by stripping naked and flogging himself for our amusement. Mr. Schaeffer once again allows us to be disgusted by the tales which will force us to look a few seconds longer in the mirror at our own dysfunction, repression and useless guilt. I highly recommend this book for it's literary worth...oh, and the amazing cookie recipe.
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