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	• The Murderous Urges of Ordinary Women Lois Meltzer Certain Age Press, 2007 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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A hilarious saga and so much more

This is a wonderful read on many levels. It is the funniest and truest book I've read about our human capacity for `murderous urges', but it is much more. Meltzer delivers a hilarious saga with, among other things, paeans to the unsung heroes and heroines who actually contribute to making civic life work.

Add cultural commentary, delivered as comeuppance to mean girls and would-be masters of the universe, and you have laugh out loud diversion combined with inspired alternatives for facing murderous urges. Rarely are moral and ethical resolutions developed with such subtlety and wit.

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choose your own adventure - be a superhero

This book starts: "Discover your Inner Vigilante 101: Always had a secret yen to be a super-hero, but didn't know how to get started?" This is a real Erin Brockinridge fantasy - how to get back at (and rid of) the government official who is an idiot; the land developer who takes precious marsh land for ugly houses; the plastic surgeon who promises a B and delivers a double F. Remember Dolly Parton in "Nine to Five" hooking her boss up to the garage door opener. This book has scenes like that. Hysterical. You'll wet your pants. Nora Ephron - you've got competition.

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Be Warned

Meltzer's book is so drop-dead funny you maybe should get your cholesterol checked before reading it. And you maybe should hide it from your friends because if they pick it up, they may not let you have it again until they've finished. If you feel about good books the way I do, that kind of behavior is a serious threat to a friendship. Better than hiding it, get them all copies: I can't imagine a better gift from one middle-aged wannabe vigilante to another.

A Revolutionary Riot!

This gem is subversive in the very best sense of the word. Unlike most books about women coming of middle age, this one has far more depth, wit relevance and humor. In fact, it actually has a plot! It goes far beyond the superficiality of sagging body parts, dating younger men, buying houses in Italy or exacting revenge on the ex-husband. This book offers far more: a sharp, incisive, insightful look at the power middle-aged women have -- in the bedroom, the office, the community -- precisely because they tend to be 'invisible.' And while you will laugh all the way through it, it will also make you think. There are an awful lot of middle-aged women out there right about now. We're a force to be reckoned with! Meltzer's book is sure to start a movement.

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The Murderous Urges Of Ordinary Women

Lois Meltzer has written a whimsical and sexy book called, "The Murderous Urges Of Ordinary Women".

She brings together four ordinary women, best friends, who have awakened to find their still vibrant Selves wrapped in the folds of middle-aged bodies, suddenly marginalized by the passing of time. At first upset that they have become "invisible", they come to realize they can use this to their advantage. And if they can, so can other women in their situation. And so their "Book Group From Hell" decides to go global: they put up a website, "call-to-flabby-arms.com", the purpose of which is to liberate their peers from lives without efficacy. And so it begins. Small things at first: rudenesses are redressed; insults are repaid. Later, as the movement grows: banks are robbed; an eco-rapist is blackmailed into doing the right thing; a Supreme Court Justice is kidnapped... all with the intention of making at least a few of the things that are wrong, at least a little right. And the invisible, dispossessed women are, sure enough, beyond (or below) suspicion. That is until a technical virgin of an investigative reporter begins to sniff around...

From the cover art to the very last page, Lois Meltzer pulls the reader in and never lets go. A masterful humorist, her insight into human behavior deepens our understanding of ourselves, even as we find ourselves laughing out loud.

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The comic adventures of four fiftyish friends who take up Vengeance as their mid-life hobby the way other women might take up the autoharp or learn Portuguese. The Book Group from Hell.

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