What a title, eh? Sadly it isn't quite the full-on male chauvinist rant one might hope for: rather, Herter comes across as a cranky old geezer, possessed of numerous largely reactionary opinions which he unfortunately feels driven to express.
One of the eternal follies of old age is the delusion that you have a duty to record your insights into the nature of humanity before you perish, overlooking the fact that they are already common currency in every bar or taxicab in the world. In this respect, Herter is somewhat out of the common in that one might have to visit as many as three drinking establishments in a large town before finding his equal.
"I wrote this book to show that husbands and wives have a very difficult time of getting along", he states in his very brief introduction, incongruously placed beneath the book's copyright notice. On the evidence of this volume, in Herter's own marriage this difficulty may be intensified if at home he is as prone to enunciate his strong ideas - on such subjects as sex education (good), birth control (bad), psychiatry (very bad), the national debt (bad), God (very good), opinion polls (bad) - as often and at such length as in the book.
As well as these fascinating byways, Herter stays on topic long enough to give us two whole chapters on the subject of marriage, in which we learn, for example, that:
A girl more intelligent than yourself that will not play the role of being equally or less intelligent than you is a loser for the long pull.
and,
In Asia or the East as it is sometimes referred to, women are for the most part brought up to be submissive to men. Divorce is rare, I have talked to many of these women and in no case have found them unhappy with their lot.
(Mr Herter is just the sort that women confide in, so I'm sure we can trust his judgement).
His chapter on how to prevent divorce also informs us that nuclear reactors are very dangerous, and that men should not wear long hair. It also supplies this insight:
I am for progress to a degree but as yet have not become used to automobiles. I still prefer horses, say nothing about travelling in space ships.
The book is capped off nicely with an example of a form popular with self-published authors, a political allegory which demonstrates how simply the world could be put to rights if only humanity would come to recognise the sheer common sense of the author's views. In Herter's story a war hero with the transparent name of Paul Neetriht becomes President and establishes a supposedly benevolent form of dictatorship, with low taxes, no foreign aid and an interesting approach to dissent:
Paul quietly got the athiests and birth selectors out of public office and government control. No one was hurt, they were just gotten out and they knew better than to make a fuss.
Yes, that's democracy, folks.
We are not given any indication of what Herter's wife might have thought about his writings, though I doubt she was flattered by its title. Hopefully, she was inspired to write her own book in response, called perhaps "How to Live With a Bore (While Pretending to be More of an Idiot Than He Is)".
After reading the comments
Sorry there Anon, but being
Sorry there Anon, but being more retarded than Muslim men is simply no a physical possible. Because on the retarded scale there are no negative numbers that would allow American men to go any lower. Except maybe for you.
And muslim men blow
Way to go Jeannie!!! You
Way to go Jeannie!!! You got it right! First one I've seen on this site so far!
I like to go fishing
Sounds like a KEEPER!!! just
Sounds like a KEEPER!!! just let me know the next time she lets you borow your alls for a few hours so we can get some fishing in... If you had my book you wouldn't have this problem!
George L. Herter.
Sounds like you need to be
What's your number? I have
What's your number? I have an engagement ring ready to go!
How an earth could any woman
How an earth could any woman be unhappy when she has you to share her life with with, what with you being so generous, good-hearted and witty to boot? Astonishing!
She so unhappy becasue she
She so unhappy becasue she apparently hasn't gotten over being previously married too you.
Ah. The author weighs in
What? What? I thought you
What? What? I thought you had moved on. Why are you still here annoying us with your incomprehensibly idiotic comments? Have you no decency?
I loved that title. Majority
What's not to love in that?
What's not to love in that? Except perhaps yourself for wanting a slave and not a companion.... Alaha be praised!
Sounds like a real
TRY LIVING WITH A TOTAL
But why oh why oh why do you
You hurt my feelings you mean
You hurt my feelings you mean person... I would do as you apparently would do - Run away! Hide under the bed! Move out. But I'm afraid you would have already taken all the good places.... or that I might actually run into you wherever I go. Far safer to live with the bitch...
I agree
Time to move on, huh?
Please do. Move on that is.
Please do. Move on that is. Anywhere but here would be oh so nice..
Does she force you to keep
Does she force you to keep your caps lock key on, as well? Poor you!
YES SHE DOES YA DORK!!!!
YES SHE DOES YA DORK!!!! EPOXIED THE KEY O THE PAD IF YOU HAVE TO KNOW.
I snickered again! Twice in a
I snickered again! Twice in a row, you all are too much.
Ellie: How about we get
Ellie: How about we get together ans snicker in your knickers just a bit?
Wonderful--I have to say,
What? What? Do YOU really
What? What? Do YOU really think this sort of thing makes some sense? Because it doesn't. With comments like these, I'd hide behind a moniker like anonymous too...
Alternate Title
Or like Anonymous and a brain
Or like Anonymous and a brain.... With the thoughts you'd be thinkin' you could be another Lincoln, if you only had a brain.
You made me snicker! I've
You made me snicker! I've never actually have done it before. Thank you, rather enjoyed it.
Ellie:
Ellie:
Get yourself a vibrator. There are many women who don't seem to be able to snicker without some help....
Very good.
Very good.
This book is well worth $100,
Haha. Yeah, nobody voices
Haha. Yeah, nobody voices their opinion on the Internet, for example.
Twit.
Twit says you? Twerp say I!!
Twit says you? Twerp say I!!! From my reading of the internet it is just electronic hokum. No one says anything new, had any real insight - they just repeat tired worn out phrases from every other not wit they have read. And they do it with anonymity far removed from any repercussions. At least I put my real name on my writing and was available in person fro anyone who wanted to call me out on anything I wrote.
George L. Herter.
George Herter has been dead
George Herter has been dead since the late 90's- 1994 to be exact.
Wow. Haunted comments section
Nice one.
What? "Nice one"? Is that
What? "Nice one"? Is that the best you can do? All that and you come up with "nice one"???? Nice one what? Would you are to at least try to add some substance to that limp and useless comment? Some small meager content for those of us out here in E-land who at least try to get some meaning for the meaninglessness of the internet population liek you who seem to think a few words meaningless words actually adds something to the vast nothingness?
Nice One Jerkoff!!!!!!
Nice One Jerkoff!!!!!!
'Marriage Counselors, The
Who said anything about harm?
Who said anything about harm? But it's not going to set the world alight, is it? If I paid $100 for a book and found it full of this sort of stuff, I'd be sorely disappointed.