Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

✍ Scribed by Allen, Tim

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 108 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780786889020

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Actor Allen's comic meditation on men and woman was a PW bestseller for 17 weeks.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From

This is another differences-between-the-sexes-har-har book, and we can't get enough of those, can we? Its advantage vis-{…}a-vis the others is that it is written by Allen more or less in the persona of his character in the TV sitcom, Home Improvement. Unfortunately, it is to a large degree an extended routine that Allen does very well but that features nothing new or really insightful. Such an Allen insight as "It's a man's place to pretend something doesn't hurt" typifies the tenor here, as does the extremely brief chapter "The Secrets Men Never Tell Women," which consists of a single throwaway punch line. As comedy, this has the disadvantage of being static and scripted; as literature, the disadvantage of covering familiar territory familiarly. Oh, it's still funny but probably considerably more so to fans of Allen and his popular TV show than to other readers. Mike Tribby