The Manwife Chronicles - As Pantless as I Want to Be [NOOK Book]

Read this pantless!!

I stayed up later than I should have last night thinking I would start this book and read a bit before going to sleep. Instead, I finished it all in one sitting while having a few too many laughing fits in the process - resulting in me getting banished to the couch to finish reading.

The author deserves a lot of credit. When you've been unemployed for 435 days and counting, it's got to be hard to keep not just your sense of humor, but also find a way to keep your creative juices flowing as well.

The book is a success on both those counts. I'm not sure if David foresaw his Question of the Day leading to a book but it was a fantastic idea, and one which I might add where a good number of talented and employed people would have never conceived of on their own.

I would recommend following the author on Twitter for awhile (@themanwife) before diving into the book. That way you can get yourself familiar with some of the Twitter names you may find in the book. You might even want to try taking a stab at a few Questions of the Day yourself. Either way, you'll still find this a fun read as the author's choices of open-ended questions can often lead to a wide variety of snarky responses.

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The ManWife!

The author poses random, funny questions to his Twitter followers and gets hilarious answers in this honestly funny and real book about a man forced to stay home and watch the kids while the wife works to bring home the bacon. The best part about this book is how honest and open he is about his situation it also shows how much it can suck to be unemployed during these tough economic times but how how boredom can lead to creativity and hilarity. I would recommend this book to anyone who's ever gone a long time without a job, it's a good read while standing in the unemployment line, pantlesss of course.

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Hilarious!

Look no further. Filled with random questions from an unemployed guy in New Mexico and the hilarious answers from strangers all over the web, this book is definitely a must read if you wanna have a good laugh. And not only you'd be getting that but you'd be financially helping this amazing father and husband.

And if you use twitter you should totally follow @themanwife to continue to read his questions and get a chance to answer them. Who knows? Maybe he'll make a part two.

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Fabulous

I'll be honest, I don't always read TheManwife's blog, but I do enjoy following him on Twitter (and when I do read his blog I find it quite funny) so when he let everyone on Twitter know about his book, I figured it would be a good read. I read it in one sitting and laughed pretty hard the entire time (I actually had a couple coughing fits from laughing so hard). It's quite witty in the usual style I've come to expect from TheManwife. Of course, I enjoy his style of humour, which is why I continue to follow him on Twitter so I thoroughly enjoyed his introduction as well as the 'correct' answers posted at the end of each question. The fact that all of these questions and answers were collected together is a huge plus in that I had often considered starring (or even retweeting) some of the answers on Twitter, but hadn't bothered to do so because the answers aren't nearly as funny when taken out of context. This book neatly solves that problem. Now I can re-read them whenever I please (and giggle to myself about HR reps playing Tetris - that was one of my favourites). Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys random humour, sarcastic humour or enjoys reading anything theManwife tosses up on his Twitter feed.

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Best thing I ever read while on the toilet.

So I bought this book originally looking for something to read when I go, so I really wasn't expecting much. To my surprise this book was witty entertain, and I spent far longer in the bathroom than I had intended. You must read this book, in the bathroom, while hiding out from your kids. Just ignore then as they shout, "I can have snack?"

Hilarious - Must Read

Definitely a must read for 2011. Following @TheManwife on twitter has been a refreshing dose of reality and this book is just what the doctor ordered.

I personally hate when I miss the Question of the Day and look forward to the questions and witty, snarky, funny, and honest answers his followers post.

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The HUDSON Shawn

Shawn is lost!

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Best F#@king Book on Planet Earth

Pantless as I Want to Be is a riveting page turner right out of the gate. (Gate meaning the table of contents.) Subsequently, the book doesn't actually become readable until I am finally mentioned on Page 89, but, I digress. The Manwife presents us with a strong, nubile protagonist-David Kaa-early on in this adventure. David, who is reminiscent of one-third James Bond, one-third Jason Bourne and one-third Diego the Explorer, is trying desperately to settle into "normal" life after retiring from his former career as an undercover CIA operative. He chooses to live out his life in the New Mexico desert-(because who would think to look for the ex-CIA agent in a place where the state sport is the 500 meter Proving-Ground sprint?)-with his wife and children. He soon learns that life spent not sniping bad guys from rooftops, not having to look over your shoulder, or hole up in a seedy hotel in Miami for seven weeks can be fatally boring. David decides to go undercover as a "house husband". He starts by quitting his job in a seriously epic fashion, (read: blowing up the building, and then running away from the explosion in slo-mo like the total badass that he is.) After hasta la vista'ing his former co-workers, David then delves deep into the life of an unemployed Soccer Dad. One of his more notable escapades was building a rudimentary catapult and then instructing his children on the fine art of peanut butter flinging. As they move on to scraping PB off the dog; his wife suddenly calls and says she's having her boss, (the infamous Octo-Mom and her litter) over for dinner. The ensuing melee was akin to one parts Dinner: Impossible and two parts Total Recall. I highly recommend this book, but more importantly, Page 89.

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