{"id":263,"date":"2016-11-21T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:06:01","slug":"book-modern-romance-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/book-modern-romance-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Modern Romance (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1438874195l\/23453101.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Romance\" width=\"318\" height=\"367\" \/>Modern Romance<\/u><\/b><br \/>\nYear: 2015<br \/>\nAuthor: Aziz Ansari<br \/>\nLength: 374 minutes \/ 6.23 hours<\/p>\n<p>I was honestly surprised by this book. As has been the case with most comedians and the books they have written, I expected this to be a bit of an autobiography in the veins of <i><a title=\"Bossypants by Tina Fey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/9418327.Bossypants\">Bossypants<\/a> <\/i>, <i><a title=\"Yes Please by Amy Poehler\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20910157.Yes_Please\">Yes Please<\/a> <\/i>, <i><a title=\"The Bassoon King My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/21975925.The_Bassoon_King_My_Life_in_Art__Faith__and_Idiocy\">The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy<\/a> <\/i>, and <i><a title=\"Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10335308.Is_Everyone_Hanging_Out_Without_Me___And_Other_Concerns_\">Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?<\/a> <\/i>Instead, I was presented with a book filled with data, analysis, and information about how modern relationships work when compared with the relationships of past generations. Having gone through some of this \u201cModern Romance\u201d myself, I could certainly relate to the information being presented, nodding my head in agreement as things I noticed suddenly had explanations pinned to them.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t that the book was not an autobiography that surprised me, it was the humorous way that <a title=\"Aziz Ansari\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9802136.Aziz_Ansari\">Aziz Ansari<\/a>\u00a0managed to present this subject matter, while also maintaining high scientific rigor. If I were to put this in a category of non-fiction humor, it would probably be in the vein of <i><a title=\"I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/611298.I_Am_America__And_So_Can_You__\">I Am America<\/a> <\/i>but without the tongue-in-cheek satire. Maybe I\u2019m even wrong in this characterization and it should fall under the collections of humor around a single topic, like the works of <a title=\"Dave Barry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6245.Dave_Barry\">Dave Barry<\/a>. Either way, this book was informative and not judgmental in the slightest. It was merely presenting the facts that had been discovered, but in such a way that made me laugh about the whole situation.<\/p>\n<p>For those people who are in relationships, want to be in relationships, or who just want to play the singles game, this book is an optimistic look at what has changed, what is likely becoming the \u201cnorm\u201d, and what we should all expect from relationships in the future. Simply put, the smartphone has complicated the world of romance, but it has also given a lot of benefit to those who know how to use it as a tool to get what they want out of life. I would almost encourage Ansari to continue writing books like this, because his humor has made a somewhat dry subject a lot more palatable.<\/p>\n<p>A great book that explores why the dating scene is so different now, I give <i>Modern Romance<\/i> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Romance Year: 2015 Author: Aziz Ansari Length: 374 minutes \/ 6.23 hours I was honestly surprised by this book. As has been the case with most comedians and the books they have written, I expected this to be a bit of an autobiography in the veins of Bossypants , Yes Please , The Bassoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[33,265,55,104,266,267,8],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-33","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-book","tag-comedy","tag-modern-romance","tag-non-fiction","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}