March 5, 2005
My favorite Amazon.com review, ever
I discovered this some years ago and still find it a treasure and a wonder of sardonic writing -- it's a review on Amazon.com of Eve Ensler's 
The Vagina Monologues.
Somehow I recalled this today and thought I would "share."
Kudos to the anonymous author who truly knows how to damn with faint praise!
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After fainting a few times, I thoroughly was won over, October 25, 1998
Reviewer: A reader
My first reaction to this book which I selected at my local library after a messy day on the job pouring concrete was that I wanted to write a sequel and title it "the cock chronicles".
As I sat alone though in my dirty-interiored pick-up truck resting my sore body I was touched in many ways by the books sensitivity not just to womans feelings, but to humanities.
I do confess to being an occassional watcher of pornography because my attention span is sometimes thus that anything that appears before me requires my immediate involvement.
But as I am now advancing in my job, I have turned to watching home improvement videos rather than porn. It has the same hands on appeal and as I age I find it will serve me more in the future.
Now as I used to want to be a professional actor and now have transferred this wanabeism to banging nails in residential contruction, I occasionally yearn to hear my golden voice.
Enough beating around the bush: my cynicism faded away as I read story after story by women about there experiences. Certainly, I was aroused at points. I yearned for a better understanding of woman and how I could learn to be more sensitive as a man.
For me, this book is more worthwhile than joining some men's organization, be it religious or civic, that poses the idea that men getting together is for the purpose of serving woman. I love art. I love peoples honest feelings. I do like to be challenged. I admit that often I am quite obsessed sexually.
I do still cat call woman but it is because I believe that I can serve them. It is in my nature. Finally, a book comes out that puts me in my place. That is what everyman really wants: to be put in his place by a woman.
As this year winds down I can honestly say that the Vagina book was the first book that I read all year. It has wet my taste for reading again that has been dormant. I am now reading all sorts of books.
I think it is an excellent book to give as a gift. To a man or a woman, this book is appropriate. Even if the person laughs at first, that is a fine response. As the holidays approach I will tell all my colleagues on the job to get this book for their woman, girlfriend, girl you are trying to hit on, wife, sister, sister-in-law. I am now set to pen my lifetime story: the Cock Chronicles.
