Review: the Man's book

Although guys I know will ever have to turn off an atom bomb in under ten seconds, or fall out of an airplane without a parachute, or have to ski backwards down a mountain on one ski while engaging in a machine gun battle with ruthless villains; men still like to think they COULD be James Bond - even if it's just to pick up women.

The Essential Guide For The Modern Man - the Man's book by Thomas Fink provides guys with the opportunity to learn all the little nuances that give normal men the confidence to become 007 - if only in their own minds.

This amazing book is filled with hundreds of useful "manly tips" from learning the appropriate place to stand at a urinal, to learning postal acronyms to text your love (BURMA -be undressed ready my angel).

Want to learn the proper way to tie a tie? Find the best trees for firewood? Make the perfect Singapore Sling or championship chili? Find the best age of your bride at marriage, the best car, the best cigar or the best men's film? The Man's Book will tell all this and more.

There are also segments on "manly writers" like Ernest Hemingway and of course, Ian Fleming.

As you can see, the author, Thomas Fink, an American living and working in London, has compiled answers to every man's burning questions. Interestingly, he is a physicist at the Curie Institute/CNRS and the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and is currently working on self-assembly: when you put many copies of one or more building blocks into a box and shake it, a macroscopic structure spontaneously emerges. (Oh to have a job like that - no wonder he writes books in his spare time!)

The Man's Book is full of information for your 007 and is top on my Christmas list for the man in my life this year. I figure if he learns just one or two things from it I will be able to say, "Here he is, the man that men want to be and women want to be with - and he's all mine."

Five Stars!

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