“This man slept with dozens of women,” opens a typical review of Rick Marin’s Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor.[1] “Then he wrote a bestseller about it,” the review continues triumphantly. One of his “victims” will surely be quoted to the effect that he is funny, too. Which probably explains why his book is a bestseller and mine is not in spite of their similarities. Luckily for me, I must add. Only imagine being surrounded by women expecting you to be funny again and again. And again. The moral?

Footnote

1. New York: Hyperion Books, 2002.