How to Tell if your Boyfriend is the Antichrist, by Patricia Carlin

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How to Tell if your Boyfriend is the Antichrist, by Patricia Carlin

POSTED: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

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Quirk, 112 pp., $12.95

For those of us who have warned our most na've lady friends time and time again to stay away from the low-lifes, cheapskates and money-laundering boyfriends for God's sake, How to Tell if your Boyfriend is the Antichrist (and if he is, should you break up with him?) is no less than a glowing little treasure chest filled to the brim with funny and (surprisingly) useful information.

Patricia Carlin's sarcastic, bite-size encyclopedia of hilarious stereotypes starts off, unsurprisingly, with the 'antichrist' boyfriend and goes through the warning signs of his devilish qualities (he doesn't say 'God bless you' at a sneeze), and follows this information up with her reasons why or why not he should be dumped or dated. In the 69 boyfriends to follow, she covers 'the commitment-phobe,' 'the renegade cop,' 'the crackhead' and 'the total bastard,' among other potential dimwits and freaks of nature.

Not all boyfriends are dumpable partners (such as 'the cross-dresser,' because, hey, if you two have the same cute taste in clothing, what's not to love?). This makes Carlin's book all the more entertaining, because although some of her warnings are completely ridiculous, others hit a bit too close to home, forcing readers to reflect on the interests of their significant others.

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