I always wonder why “women” is longer than “men” and “Venus” is longer than “Mars”. It’s so unfair, isn’t it????

Recently, I have spent time to finish this book. Originally, I knew about the book a while because it has a catchy name and my (elder) sister has had it in her bookshelf for a few years. I did take it down several times and tried to read it but I stopped after a few pages. One time, as I remember, I felt as sleep after reading the introduction! Oh yeah, it’s embarrassing, hehe.

But thing gets changed. Last Christmas, all of a sudden, my ex-girlfriend brought me the book with a note which makes me really curious so I decided to try to read it one more time. And yeah, after… exactly 4 months (wow), I make it! I must admit it’s such an useful book!

Basically, the book supports a theory of the author (John Gray) that men and women came to Earth from different planets. They speak different languages and that’s why they misunderstand each other all the time. Also, Mars and Venus’s system of definitions and points of view do not share any thing in common, that leads to a big problem when they don’t know what (or understand why) each other wants and because of the lack of communication, their problems gets worse and worse. The book explains in detail all those differences and sometimes he gives readers some useful tips too. 

Actually, there are some parts that he mentioned again and again which is really annoying (or maybe it’s because of the translation only, I’m not sure). And it may be hard to bring his theory to life anyway because each person is unique and it takes true love and strong commitment (my sister’s) to smooth everything up.

To me, the book is at least a useful reference source in case I need to interpreter Sylvie’s thoughts (which become extremely complex every now and then). Hahahahah