Queer Eye For the Straight Guy: The Fab 5's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better (Abridged)

by Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia, Carson Kressley, Jai Rodriguez Narrated by Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Jai Rodriguez, Thom Filicia, Carson Kressley

Overview

Imagine this: Five eminently stylish and hilariously witty gay men -- authoritative experts in food and wine, grooming, decorating, fashion, and culture -- invade your life, assess your strengths and weaknesses, and, in the course of a day, make you better dressed, better groomed, better mannered, and a better cook, living in a better home. All of this is painless (unless you have a really egregious body-hair situation), liberating, and downright fun.*

This is what*Queer Eye for the Straight Guy*does each week on one of the hottest TV shows in memory, as the Fab 5 -- Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia, Carson Kressley, and Jai Rodriguez -- turn an everyman frog into an every-girl's-dream prince. And this is what the book offers: the essential "make better" advice from each of the Fab 5. Just like the show, the book focuses on easy but lasting lifestyle transformation -- the tasks, the projects, the modest purchases, and, most important, the new attitudes that immediately make a noticeable difference.

From Kyan's instructions on how often to wash your hair to Carson's explanation of why shirts are the new ties, from Ted's strategies for ordering wine and Thom's suggestions on a better bathroom to Jai's hints on shaking hands,*Queer Eye for the Straight Guy*is filled with clear, direct advice on the issues that confront every man. But*Queer Eye*doesn't try to make you dress like Carson or dance like Jai; it's about teaching you how to refine your own personal style, without throwing away your entire closet and buying a whole new everything. It's about helping you realize the best expression of yourself -- the real you.

Queer Eye*introduces men to the rewards that women -- and a lot of gay men -- have long reaped by thinking about the day-to-day details that make them look better, feel better, and get more out of life. Many straight men have long felt that these subjects are not for them. Nothing could be sillier. In this audiobook, the Fab 5 sets them straight (so to speak).

Editorial Reviews

APR/MAY 04 - AudioFile

Listeners who have watched “Queer Eye’s” whirlwind makeovers on TV will recognize the familiar straight-shooting style of advice giving on everything from wardrobe to home decorating to how to become more wine savvy. The Fab 5 read their own sections, and while they’re obviously not professional narrators, they are comfortable enough and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. The audiobook itself has some cheeky touches: In the section on “manscaping”--dealing with unwanted body hair--the sound of a lawnmower plays in the background. There’s a brief glossary that defines essential terms like “tjuzs” (that final tweak of shirt sleeve or primp of hairstyle) and some funny, off-the-cuff interviews at the end. When the whole point is to become a better you, it’s hard not to listen. J.M.D. 2005 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

APR/MAY 04 - AudioFile

Listeners who have watched “Queer Eye’s” whirlwind makeovers on TV will recognize the familiar straight-shooting style of advice giving on everything from wardrobe to home decorating to how to become more wine savvy. The Fab 5 read their own sections, and while they’re obviously not professional narrators, they are comfortable enough and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. The audiobook itself has some cheeky touches: In the section on “manscaping”--dealing with unwanted body hair--the sound of a lawnmower plays in the background. There’s a brief glossary that defines essential terms like “tjuzs” (that final tweak of shirt sleeve or primp of hairstyle) and some funny, off-the-cuff interviews at the end. When the whole point is to become a better you, it’s hard not to listen. J.M.D. 2005 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169175783
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	02/10/2004
Edition description:	Abridged

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