Review: It didn't quite do it for me.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2011
What can I say that my title hasn't already said?This book is a long, rambling diatribe concerning marriage, fidelity (or the lack thereof) and open marriage.  It is written in a stream of consciousness style, so it jumps around from thought to thought, sometimes maddeningly so.  The premise: man married 24 years, doesn't get enough so he is trying to get his wife to open up (so to speak) to the idea of an open marriage.  Throughout the book he claims to love her yet he complains endlessly about her.  When his newlywed neighbor's wife comes over and drops the bomb that her husband and his wife are having an affair, his mind goes into action trying to work the situation to his advantage.  He has, by his own admission, had an online affair which started with a misleading ad he placed on Craig's List.  He is overjoyed by the thought of his wife with another man, or men, as he feels this gives him the right to step out on her.  I guess the only saving grace in his deluded thinking is that if both partners are willing to participate in sex beyond the confines of marriage, then nobody is being unfaithful because it's all out in the open.  He seems to think he has tapped into what he explains as "the other side of jealousy", where you move beyond the rage and find titilation in your partner's infidelity.  I know there are others who think along these lines and practice this lifestyle, but for me this book felt like a giant sales pitch for open marriage.  Perhaps that's your cup of tea, but it's not mine.The book had enough errors and omissions to be distracting and rambled on and on as the author presented his sales pitch...Sorry, I ain't buyin' it.