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BOOK REVIEW
Man Made, by Joel Stein

>Joel Stein, married and almost 40, finds out he's about to become a dad. The ultrasound says it's a boy. But Stein, a Time magazine humour columnist, doesn't feel masculine enough to be a good male role model for his soon-to-be son. So he goes on a stupid quest for masculinity. Think Woody Allen alone in the country, hanging out with burly men who don't do the dishes, and you've got a mental picture of Stein's quest in Man Made.

>Stein is no Renaissance man. While some North American white-collar men watch the DIY channel and get inspired to renovate, Stein would rather go to a food-and-wine show. He doesn't drink coffee; he drinks green tea. He doesn't drink beer; he drinks wine. When Stein was a kid, he owned an Easy-Bake Oven, not toy guns. He's a sensitive, Jewish-American mensch who grew up in suburban New Jersey with a salesman father who routinely challenged unbending strangers to rounds of fisticuffs.

>While Stein's dad managed to make the the jump from the rough-and-tumble Bronx, Stein graduated from prestigious Stanford University, worked as a staff writer for Time and now writes the magazine's back-page humour column from Los Angeles. He has never had to do any heavy lifting, selling or hand-to-hand combat. And he likes it that way.

AHAHAHAHAHA
Holy fuck what a bitch
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