Reviews for Real man tells all

The average rating for Real man tells all based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-18 00:00:00 Bindia Puri Little-known and undiscovered, but this book is a true gem. Full of profound insight about human relations in the modern society, and relationships between men especially. It is not flowers and sunshine, to read this text, but the sting is worth it. Because it's time to wake up and snap out of this hypnosis that we are having friendships when in reality we barely know the people we call 'friends', or people who call us 'friends'. The faults the book deals with are mostly relevant in case of adults, not college-age men. Students still seem to keep their friendships going (although I know examples even there where people have abandoned the concept altogether) and still value such relations. Adults don't seem to be doing so well at all, though. This book was written in 1983, thus it didn't even have the chance to get into the subject of social media and how it has made banal and cheapened human relationships and friendships, but surprisingly, it touches even on such aspect. I could surely sympathize with the author's insistence on deeper and more meaningful friendships, with an ideal of friendship that harks back to the classical age, and with a desire to breathe life back into the institution of friendship as a whole. This is all relevant to our contemporary age and society because most adults are having ''friendships'' that don't go further than a quick lunch every few months, and it's a sad truth that this has to be the cost of our proud independence and privacy. Because it does not have to be that way. We all get to have it better, make it better, if only we wanted to and realized how profound an effect it has on one's life. I have always held friendship to the same high standards that were displayed by men in the past. It has always been something special to me, something deep, as necessary part of my life as the air that I breathe. But I have come to realize that my approach to friendship is different than most adult men's I know; mine is more intense and involved, friendship is more important to me than it is to most others. This is a sad and a frustrating realization. True friendship is one of the best things in life to have; to have it falter on something as silly as one party not being able to clear a few of hours a month for it is truly a sad reality we have arrived at. Frustrating, when you are the only one left fighting, trying to keep it alive, when you seem to be the only one to still care if it is still even there. I think things can be a lot better in this regard. I think they should be better. We need to stop and start involving our friends into our monthly -- daily, even -- schedules more. It is not true that we don't have the time. It is not true that we are that busy. Friendship brightens life like the sun brightens the world and brings out the colors, it is ridiculous to opt out of this pleasure voluntarily.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-17 00:00:00 Mark Lazor Interesting read. The author is a straight man in search of strong friendships. It's a memoir of his search. He has extraordinarily high expectations of these relationships, and is often disappointed.