The New York Times columnist and author of "Bushworld" returns with a humorous look at gender issues.
Critic Reviews
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Favorable
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Booklist Brad Hooper
Dowd is hilarious, cutting, and provocative--in other words, perfectly willing to express her vision of the truth without an ounce of reservation.
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Mixed
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Kirkus Reviews
Her heart's in the fight place, but she really should get out more. [15 Oct 2005, p. 1121]
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Mixed
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The Nation Katha Pollitt
Dowd is such a credulous audience for backlash propaganda it doesn't occur to her that she is promoting, not reporting, the problem she describes.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review Kathryn Harrison
Consumed over a cup of coffee, 800 words provide Dowd the ideal length to call her readers' attention to the ephemera at hand that may reveal larger trends and developments. But smart remarks are reductive and anti-ruminative; not only do they not encourage deeper analysis, they stymie it.
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Mixed
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New York Observer Suzy Hansen
A very odd, occasionally entertaining mish-mash of politics and sex, biology and Cosmopolitan-ology, gravity and wit, insight and carelessness. [14 Nov 2005, p. 7]
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Unfavorable
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Publishers Weekly
It's intermittently entertaining, but neither sharp enough nor sustained enough to work as a book. [26 Sep 2005, p. 74]
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Unfavorable
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Washington Post Carolyn See
Maureen Dowd is funny and smart, but most of what she tells us here--sieved through dozens of other articles and sound bites and sitcoms from Pop-Culture-Land--turns out to be, literally and figuratively, yesterday's news.
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Unfavorable
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Daily Telegraph Frances Wilson
Ironically, given that this is precisely her criticism of women today, [Dowd] is more interested in the wrapping than the content of her writing.
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Unfavorable
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Village Voice Joy Press
AMN? reads like a glib, deja vu compendium of every Newsweek-style pop-science zeitgeist piece of the last 15 years.
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Unfavorable
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Entertainment Weekly Jennifer Reese
To observe Dowd at her coquettish, stiletto-wearing worst, crack her new book, Are Men Necessary?, a hodgepodge of recycled columns, Dorothy Parker quips, and peekaboo glimpses into the glam journalist's personal life.
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Terrible
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Los Angeles Times Susan Salter Reynolds
Columns are one thing. But books are different. And with "Are Men
Necessary?" Dowd has made a book-length mistake. [8 Nov 2005]
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Terrible
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Wall Street Journal Meghan Cox Gurdon
Unfortunately, it's a stinker.
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Terrible
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The Guardian Carole Cadwalladr
Some books are bad and others are just plain crappy. This, sadly, is one of the crappy ones.
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