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If Books Could Kill

The Rules

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm rock I've got that's so many zingers bouncing around in my mind. Do you want to do a couple do you want to try

0:05.0

Fectives and I

0:07.0

My favorite absolute dumbest one was something like

0:13.4

The only thing I know about rules Michael is that I'm always breaking them

0:19.1

Terrible

0:21.1

I was I was ready to do it though. I was

0:24.9

Alright give us give us the real one let's let's go ahead. Okay go ahead

0:29.8

Peter Michael what do you know about a book called The Rules

0:35.0

Finally a set of arbitrary social guidelines for women

0:39.6

So the full title of this book is The Rules time tested secrets for capturing the heart of Mr. Wright

1:03.2

The book came out in 1995 but it was a word of mouth hit and only started showing up on the bestseller list in 1996

1:12.8

It eventually sold two million copies which is objectively like a lot of copies but also

1:19.1

Compared to the secret which sold 30 million or a matter for Mars which sold 15 million yeah, it's relatively small

1:26.0

Why follow a bunch of rules when you can just manifest a man

1:32.2

It's written by Sherry Schneider and Ellen fine who are essentially just two random women

1:40.2

They are 36 and 38 years old when it is published. I was not able to find any background information

1:47.2

Specifically on these people all I could find is that they're they're both just freelance journalists and then they wrote this book and

1:55.0

Immediately started doing like seminars and you could pay them

1:59.8

$45 for a 15-minute consultation

2:03.6

Which honestly seems cheap for this time like something that's like it almost feels like it's not a grift

2:09.0

They're just doing it because they really want women to get laid since this book came out

2:14.3

They've essentially spent the rest of their lives just doing like spin-offs and extensions

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