Modern Romance
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Publisher Description
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation's most popular and sharpest comedic voices
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated?
Some of our problems are unique to our time. "Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?" "Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!" "My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who's Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?"
But the transformation of our romantic lives can't be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighbourhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate.
For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but forModern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analysed behavioural data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world's leading social scientists, including Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humour book we've seen before.
In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humour with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Actor-comedian Aziz Ansari isn’t necessarily the man you’d turn to for a deep-dive, quantitative analysis of current dating trends, but he is the guy you’d hit up for funny, slightly off-kilter commentary on the weird ways we go about finding love. Surprise—it turns out he can be insightful and hilarious in equal measure. Modern Romance is a smart, charming survey of modern dating that relies equally on soundly vetted academic studies and a few, shall we say, less scientific investigations. It’s a book everyone can fall in love with.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
This book takes a psychological look at how romance has changed over the decades. We learn love isn't lost through the endless texting it's just more complicated that we expected, however. Our opportunities are endless now...... Is that a good or bad thing I'll let you decide for yourself.
Aziz has done an excellent job at adding his comedy genius touch to every page. I'd highly recommend it to anybody who has always wondered, why did the older generation have much longer relationships.