Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to… (original 1992; edition 1992)

Buku yang sangat bermanfaat untuk memahami perbezaan antara lelaki dan wanita.

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1)Bagaimana untuk memahami perbezaan cara berfikir antara lelaki dan wanita
2)Bagaimana untuk mengelakkan perselisihan faham antara lelaki dan wanita.
3)Bagaimana untuk menggunakan kelemahan sebagai sumber kekuatan dalam sesuatu perhubungan.

Dapatkan sekarang!Sebelum nasi menjadi bubur.Perang bertambah buruk!

I don't review books. This one, however, deserves it.

This book seems to be a thinly veiled attempt at marketing of merchandise. John Gray has seminars that help married couples. Want to find one? Of course you do. The contact info is at the back. He also mentions the tape versions that have helped so many of his clients. Want to buy one? There's a list of those at the back too. He's also written other books. Why not inquire about those as well?

I don't know what edition it was that I read, but I hope that if they reprinted it, they might have caught a few of the many grammatical errors throughout. This isn't a novel, so it's not quite as jarring to stumble across a spelling mistake, but it still rips you from the content of the book. It seems as though no one could actually get through the book without skimming over sections, so they couldn't properly check the grammar.

Mind you, there are valuable ideas in this book. I've learned a lot from it, and I think it's useful in some ways for relationships. However, for it to really work, both halves of a relationship would have to read this, and I'm not going to recommend it to anyone, let alone my SO. In addition, this book, though published in the early 90s, feels like it takes some views of male and female roles from the 50s. Gray writes as though women are lesser. As a man, I feel if I notice this, it's not a good sign. I feel like the writing justifies mens' problems, and tells women to learn to deal with it.

The cons in this book outweighed the pros. I think I can apply some of the lessons from it, but I wish it would have come from a different venue. I regret finishing it, but the addiction of Goodreads wouldn't allow me to leave a book unfinished. ( )

"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus."

*about five minutes later*

"Mężczyżni są Marsa, Kobiety są Wenus."

*that took awhile to type*

"Book by Crazy Americans"

*pauses* No, that has an adjective. {If you try to learn a language, you'll start to know what I mean.}

(Play word association with The Google-- American.... Express. American.... Horror Story. Polish.... Women.)

Although it's a little odd that "Wenus" is indeclinable, it makes me wonder if I did everything right.

Anyway, that's my review.

Oh, and he should have used a semi-colon. In the title.

Semi-colons are my favorite grammatical.... thingie.

I think you're batshit; I'm learning Polish.

Hahaha, A-hahahahaha.

Yeah.

(8/10) ( )

It was nearly ten years ago when I first read Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, and I remember thinking how fortunate I was to stumble across such an honest guide to understanding the opposite sex. There were secrets to be revealed here and all I needed to do was pay attention.

Today I'm married to a marvelous Venusian woman, and maturity has helped me appreciate how much more I still had to learn from my bachelor days. If anything, my greatest lesson is perhaps the Socratic wisdom—I know that I know nothing.

From experience I can attest to this book's timeless insight. ( )

John Gray is an inspiration in understanding the differences between the sexes. I am a latecomer to the book and have found it to be as up to date now in 2011 as it was when it was written. ( )