Five Men Who Broke My Heart | Susan Shapiro

Five Men Who Broke My Heart | Susan Shapiro | Transcends its Genre

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	Five Men Who Broke My Heart Susan Shapiro Delta, 2004 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who'd broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five times. One bad breakup was more hurtful and humiliating than the next.

With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-long journey back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for years she'd blamed her boyfriends for their flagrant infidelity, ludicrous faults, and immature foibles, to her shock she can now suddenly pinpoint the exact moment where she herself screwed up each relationship.

A successful freelance writer living in Manhattan, Susan Shapiro was in the midst of a midlife crisis she called her ?no-book-no-baby summer.? Married for five years to Aaron, a workaholic TV comedy writer always on the road, she was beginning to wonder if she'd remain book- and babyless forever. Then the phone rang, and it was Brad, a college flame who'd become a Harvard scientist with a book coming out. Susan offers to interview him, and she winds up launching into all the intense, invasive questions she'd always wanted to ask him. To her surprise, he answers them! This ignites a spark that sends her on a cross-country jaunt back through her lust-littered past.

While Brad is still single, she finds that Heartbreaks Number Two, Three, and Four are not. George, a theater professor, and Richard, a music biographer, are happily married with children. Tom, a handsome blond lawyer in L.A., is getting divorced. Just as it's becoming easy to worm her way back into her exes' good graces, she crashes head-on with David, a wry Canadian root canal specialist. ("It?s the equivalent of what you did to me emotionally," she tells him.) She then gut-wrenchingly relives the agony of splitting up with her first love all over again. Yet somewhere between the tantalizing what-ifs and bittersweet might-have-beens, she finds what she's been searching for all along.

Part relationship manifesto, part confessional, and part valentine to the males in her life she adores, Five Men Who Broke My Heart is for anyone who has ever wondered what became of their first love. Or second, third, fourth, or fifth?

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A fun and intriguing read

Who hasn't wondered why their relationship fell apart or what their exes were thinking when they broke up? Most people wonder forever, but Susan Shapiro took it further and actually went to find out why her relationships went south. Her journey to ex-boyfriend land was very insightful because who hasn't made the same mistakes in their relationships? I think seeing her relationship problems made me more aware of things I've done in my own. And it's nice to know that you really can learn from your past relationships so that you can improve your current one. Some great scenes in this book-particularly the scenes with her family. I love those!!! I can totally see this book as a movie, too.

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Transcends its Genre

As a guy, I was slightly wary of anything that might be deemed Chick-lit, but a friend had praised it highly and wanted to know what I thought. I also had read Only as Good as Your Word: Writing Lessons from My Favorite Literary Gurus and found it hilarious, so if I was going to try out this genre it would be something from this author.
Anyway, I had only planned to read a few pages to see what it was about but found it compelling, even hard to put down. Although it's premise is often cited as brilliant --and it is -- it's Shapiro's witty prose style and deft descriptions of these mad-cap encounters that reeled me in. A bonus was the insight into a successful, self-assured woman's psyche in very stressful situations. Aspiring memoirists should also buy this book as a learning tool.

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Amazing!

I picked up this book and could not put it down (I ended up reading it in one sitting)! The writing is funny and poignant at the same time. I found myself laughing out loud at the author's witty prose as she recounts her love affairs and insecurities with brutal honesty. Read it and enjoy! I hope it gets made into a movie; it'll be great! I can see Natalie Portman playing the author.

Wonderful!!!!!

I immediately got this book after I read LIGHTING UP and I finished it in about 4 days... Susan Shapiro wrote this hilarious book venturing in past relationships... Tracking down old boyfriends, and and asking them questions she's always wanted to. This is a WONDERFUL & entertaining book, and I would recommend it to EVERYONE!!!!

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