Unzipped: The Extraordinary Sex Lives of Ordinary People

By Courtney Weaver

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747275769
• ISBN13: 9780747275763
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Obviously model for Carrie in "Sex and the City"

This book is funny and charming and as I was reading, it seemedobvious that Courtney Weaver was the model for Carrie in HBO's series"Sex and The City." If you enjoy that show, you will enjoy this book immensely. Weaver writes in a breezy, conversational style that is light and easy to read. The book isn't about sex, per se, although there are many references to it, but about relationships and being single in your 30's. Very enjoyable.

A delicious page-turner

Utterly contemporary, intelligent and witty, Courtney Weaver's "Unzipped" is a delicious page-turner. Sex and mating rituals are explored with a clear, ironic eye, and though she boldly mines her friends' private lives, I never had the feeling she was exploiting them. As she reports from the front about what it's like to be a single woman in today's confusing world, she comes across as strong yet vulnerable, charming and good-humored. She is also pitiless and self-deprecating in chronicling her own neuroses, which makes her all the more endearing. Telephone dispatches from her diverse friends, from San Francisco to New York to London, were endlessly fascinating installments of their latest dramas. I've already given the book to two of my girlfriends and they also enjoyed it enormously. Weaver's fresh, insightful voice made me eager to read a follow-up.

Modern Sex and the Single Girl

Courtney Weaver's wry humor about the benefits and disadvantages of the singleton's condition is a delicious tonic. From the first page I was hooked into her female friends' diverse, funny, and sometimes appalling love lives. It's gratifying to read such an intelligent and insightful account of what real women think and talk about, and have a good belly laugh about it at the same time. The characters and their problems are easy to identify with, and it's a book that I feel all of my girlfriends would be happy to have.

Oh The Places You'll Go

A fun quick read. Very titillating with an interesting cast of characters which are real people. From the male perspective, I found this book delivered some excellent insight into relationship (and sexual) dilemmas. Also, it was light on the psycho-babble and offered meaty, if a little oversexed, observations. A must read if you want a better understanding of your date/flame.

Wicked and wise

In the past, I have read Weaver's column in Salon and roared with laughter and sometimes recognition. Now she has finally gotten between hard cover (no pun intended) and we all get to enjoy her wit and intelligence. The New York Times said it true when they called her charming -- she is. Yet she also nimbly transcends the glib and offers an empathic look at the tangled world in which we triumph, frolic, and sometimes flail. Buy this book for every woman you know with a brain and a sense of humor. I await her next work with anticipation....