From Schlub to Stud: How to Embrace Your Inner Mensch and Conquer the Big City by Max Gross

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    • ISBN: 1602392633
    • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
    • Pub. Date: August 2008
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    Synopsis

    Knocked Up revealed that schlubs really can become studs—here's how!

    For years after college, Max Gross was a schlubby ne'er-do-well sporting an unwieldy Jewfro. He fought off double-chins and man-boobs. His style of dress was reminiscent of a stoned urban slacker. Young Max Gross truly was hapless in a big city. He was seemingly without luck or hope. He had bedbugs, a bad break-up, and an audit by the IRS that threatened to break his soul. But he had heart (as well as two nagging parents). When Gross saw the smash comedy Knocked Up, he realized his day might have arrived. All these years of being a world-class schlub would finally pay off. Thinking quickly, Gross wrote an article about the phenomenon and soon found true love.

    In this hilarious memoir-cum-guidebook, our curly-headed hero shares his story and offers suggestions on leaving home (the bedbugs and consequent breakup forced a move back to his parents' loving arms), losing weight (but not too much), dressing well, playing poker to fulfill the typical schlub obsession with being good at sports, and much more. Naturally, the quest to find the right woman is of critical importance, and Gross expounds on this thoroughly. Readers will come away from the book enlightened, informed, and laughing hysterically.

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    Biography

    Max Gross is a staff reporter for The New York Post, where his article "Schlub You the Right Way" was published. His occasional column "The Hapless Jewish Writer" appears in The Forward. He lives in Queens, New York.

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    08/13/2008: I loved this book. I was laughing out loud.A very talented writer.

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    08/03/2008: Hilarious,I could not put the book down,once I was done with the book I wanted more,I laughed out loud.This book is for anyone who is a schlub,knows a schlub,loved a schlub or is not sure what a schlub is,Get the book you'll love it!!!