There’s lots of internet reviews of Lori Gottleib’s book, ‘Marry Him’.

Rare is the book that infuriates and captivates like Lori Gottlieb’s latest. From its unapologetic goal — to help unhappy single ladies get hitched! — to its grabby, “oh no she didn’t” title (“Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”), women haven’t argued about a dating book so ferociously since we first learned he just wasn’t that into us. “Surprisingly, unnervingly convincing,” wrote Alex Kuczynski at O magazine, while over at the Daily Beast, Liesl Schillinger tarred it as “whining, capricious, corrosive.” In the meantime, Tobey Maguire’s production company snapped up the movie rights, and Gottlieb has been interviewed everywhere from Dr. Phil to the “Today” show.

Okay, I have a mathematical problem with this. Where are the swarms of guys just dying to be some women’s ‘good enough’? Are they the ones with ‘born too loose’ tattooed on their bicep? Or maybe some Chinese character that translates as ‘turkey’?
If there are really that many men looking to get married, you’d think they’d circulate around until they found some woman who considered them a first choice.

There’s lots of married guys who never get mistaken for Brad Pitt, but their wives think they’re handsome. I mean, you can’t just sort people like eggs, Grade A or Grade B or whatever. What self-respecting man would marry a woman who thinks he’s second best?

I remember a local news story several years ago. A police officer, I think, though I’m not sure. Anyway, he invited a woman to a rendezvous. Not at a motel. That would have cost money. He met her in a car parked behind a motel. Then, in his careless passion he set off the canister of Mace on his belt, forcing the couple to flee the car coughing and gagging, spewing fumes and attracting much unwanted attention.

That’s what happens when you settle.

Lori Gottleib won’t have to settle. If her book makes the best-seller list she’ll have lots of opportunities to meet guys. Then she’ll get serious and tie the knot with one of them. She’ll tell him that she loves him, and they’ll live it up on the bucks she made telling women to resign themselves to the marked-down rack of relationships. Everyone will say they make a lovely couple. And it’s only in the insomniac hours around three a.m. that he will wonder.

Did she take her own advice?

AND ANOTHER THING: The New York Times book review makes it sound even worse. I still wonder, who are these guys with diamond rings in their pockets just dying to be some woman’s ‘good enough’.