I just got this for my birthday and it's the funniest thing I've ever received - including my Happy Bunny flip chart. You can't go wrong with this gift for yourself or any of your friends!

This is great, and the greatest surprise is that it is written by two MEN!

A few months ago, my husband and I were in a chain bookstore. I don't know who picked up this gem first (I think it was him!), but next thing you know, we were flipping through the pages and laughing our butts off! I was laughing so hard I had to walk away...and then came back for more. Honest to God, I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to black out.

Why I didn't buy it at the time is beyond me.

So Christmas rolls around and I happen to be in this same bookstore (one that's inside a mall I don't visit on a regular basis). Remembering our guffaws, I say to my husband "Let's get that book!" He downplays the search for some reason and I finally ask a clerk to help me. He found me a copy!

Well, it turned out that my husband JUST bought me this gem at another store a few minutes before! (Which is why he was trying to be nonchalant.)

What I didn't realize the first time I saw You Say I'm a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing was that it was a spiral book that you can set on a desk or table top. How cool! You can then display a "phrase of the day".

Here are a but a few of my favorites:

*A Clean House is a Sign of a Wasted Life (A smiling woman in a dress is on her hands and knees scrubbing the tub)

*Give the Dangerous Bitch Her Chocolate (A woman looking longingly at a box of chocolates while a man looks longingly at HER)

*Amazingly Enough, I Don't Give a Shit (A woman in a gingham dress looks at you with arched eyebrows)

*Queen of F****** Everything (Elegant woman lounging on a bed)

*Admitting You're an A**hole is the First Step (One woman looking at a guy while the other woman winks)

*I Gave Up Jogging Because My Thighs Kept Rubbing Together and Setting My Pantyhose on Fire (An elegant woman in gloves and necklace)

*Easy There, Mr. Testosterone--You Can Be Replaced By a Zucchini (Woman being kissed on the cheek by an amorous man)

*Mommy, When I Grow Up I want to Help Smash the White Racist, Homophobic, Patriarchal, Bullsh** Paradigm, Too! (Smiling girl with blonde curls and bright blue eyes)

The pictures are beautifully retro and some of them feature great sight gags. For example, there's a woman holding a toddler in her lap and she's giving the middle finger. The caption says "Just Because I'm a Mom Doesn't Mean I Care".

If you're prudish, you'll not like You Say I'm a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing. If you're thinking of giving this as a gift to a prude, don't--it will be wasted on them. But if you like sassy, snarky humor--especially in the guise of 50's "Leave it to Beaver" faux perfection--this is a hilarious offering.

By the way, ask me about a fabulous career in bitching. *grin*

Good for several laugh out loud moments. The book's cover can also be folded out to display the page, or "thought" of the day. A very funny book.

A wonderfully guilty pleasure. I like the "meditation of the day" format; it's almost like getting a reading from a fortune teller who looks like Barbara Cleaver but talks like John Waters. At first I thought this would be a great gift for girlfriends. Then my gay buddies wanted a copy too. Then my kids decided this was a good way to laugh at/with me, even if it didn't meet their teacher's page-length requirement for book-report assignments. Then my mother's retirement home card club borrowed my copy and laughed harder than anyone. I gave one to my barrista friend at the local coffee shop, but it got ripped off. I can't wait for the Books-on-tape version! Wickedly funny.

"You Say I'm a Bitch" was not quite what I expected. Each page features an image of a female from a vintage 1940s or 1950s advertisement. Thus, I anticipated the humor to lampoon the type of domesticity seen in ads from this era. Pictures of women in gleaming kitchens whipping up perfect meals are perfect fodder for sharp humor about conformity and such. Instead, the ads are accompanied by brief captions, most of which are the equivalent of, "You go girl!"

I didn't enjoy the book very much. Of the approximately 60 pictures, I laughed at about four of them. The pictures are nostalgic and beautiful, all in soft-focus full color. However, the jokes are just not sharp or even that relevant to the picture - accompanying a picture of a perfect forty-ish housewife with pearl earrings is the caption, "I have PMS. Be afraid. Be very afraid." Unfortunately, the gags don't always even match that well with the picture, almost as if they wrote the sayings before assigning them to the ads.

If you enjoy tepid humor about housework, chasing Mr. Right, and PMS, then you may enjoy this product. The book is designed with a mini-easel as the back cover, allowing pages to be displayed. I can see some women displaying the book on their desk and having it become the source of office laughs. Really, this item is more of a gag gift or a novelty item than a book. If taken that way, then I'll bump the rating up to 3-stars.

I stumbled across this book in Borders. I was laughing so hard I almost wet my pants! I knew my wife would think it was a scream, so I bought it for her.

She works with three other irreverent women at her office. This book was a HUGE hit. Every day, they all gather around her cubicle and decide which of the postcards they're going to display for that day.

BUY IT! BUY IT NOW!

This book come binded with three rings at the top and has a stand built into the bottom for display. Perfect to set up on your desk to let your co-workers know that you just don't give a sh-t.