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Kako da ubijete svog muža
Voleti, usisavati i slepo slušati...
Ako zahteva doručak u krevetu, recite mu neka spava u kuhinji.
Obožavaj svog muža, ljubi svog muža, ali sva imovina neka bude na tvoje ime.
Svaka žena ponekad poželi da ubije muža. „Treba vam samo malo dobre volje da vas neko spomene u svojom testamentu“, često se među sobom šale supruge. Brak je, čini se, zabavan i površan hobi, čija posledica je tek povremeno nečija smrt.
Ako zahteva doručak u krevetu, recite mu neka spava u kuhinji.
Obožavaj svog muža, ljubi svog muža, ali sva imovina neka bude na tvoje ime.
Svaka žena ponekad poželi da ubije muža. „Treba vam samo malo dobre volje da vas neko spomene u svojom testamentu“, često se među sobom šale supruge. Brak je, čini se, zabavan i površan hobi, čija posledica je tek povremeno nečija smrt.
344 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Kathy Lette
62 books249 followersKathy Lette divides her time between being a full time writer,
demented mother (now there's a tautology) and trying to find a shopping trolley that doesn't have a clubbed wheel.
Kathy first achieved succés de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, now a major motion picture.
After several years as a singer with the Salami Sisters and a newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York (collected in the book "Hit and Ms") and as a television sitcom writer for Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles, her novels, "Puberty Blues" (1979) "Girls Night Out" (1988), "The Llama Parlour" (1991), "Foetal Attraction" (1993), "Mad Cows" (1996),"Altar Ego" (1998) "Nip'N'Tuck" (2001), "Dead Sexy" (2003) and "How To Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)" (2006) became international best-sellers. Kathy Lette's plays include "Grommits", "Wet Dreams", "Perfect Mismatch" and "I'm So Happy For You I Really Am".
She lives in London with her husband and two children and has just finished a stint as writer in Residence at London's Savoy Hotel.
Kathy says that the best thing about being a writer is that you get to work in your jammies all day, drink heavily on the job and have affairs and call it research! (Although her husband says he should have the affair as it would give her a better book!)
demented mother (now there's a tautology) and trying to find a shopping trolley that doesn't have a clubbed wheel.
Kathy first achieved succés de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, now a major motion picture.
After several years as a singer with the Salami Sisters and a newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York (collected in the book "Hit and Ms") and as a television sitcom writer for Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles, her novels, "Puberty Blues" (1979) "Girls Night Out" (1988), "The Llama Parlour" (1991), "Foetal Attraction" (1993), "Mad Cows" (1996),"Altar Ego" (1998) "Nip'N'Tuck" (2001), "Dead Sexy" (2003) and "How To Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)" (2006) became international best-sellers. Kathy Lette's plays include "Grommits", "Wet Dreams", "Perfect Mismatch" and "I'm So Happy For You I Really Am".
She lives in London with her husband and two children and has just finished a stint as writer in Residence at London's Savoy Hotel.
Kathy says that the best thing about being a writer is that you get to work in your jammies all day, drink heavily on the job and have affairs and call it research! (Although her husband says he should have the affair as it would give her a better book!)
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July 27, 2008
I think I've outgrown Kathy Lette - her over-the-top exaggerated style of comedy just no longer hits the mark for me. I disliked most of the characters in this book - I found it incomprehensible that the three women were friends, or that they remained married to their husbands. The murder case was all rather silly. I mean, I finished it, it wasn't dreadful, but I felt it was trying far too hard to be funny and didn't succeed, in the most part.
January 16, 2011
I expected this book to be a light and easy read but it turned into one of the few books I just could not finish. The characters annoyed me too much and the author was trying too much to be funny and failed miserably at it!
August 29, 2019
I read this book because it was a present from my very good friend and as she recommended it I was really looking forward to reading it because I consider her as a very intelligent woman. Wow! When I was a teenage girl this was called a romantic short novel and never had more than 40 pages. We used to take those to the beach for lite reading. Nothing more in that. No literal value. So this reminded me so much of those short novels, just this one wasted more paper. I couldn't refrain myself from time to time of shouting: Oh really, for Christ sake woman! Characters are so unrealistic. Situations are at the edge of absurdity. And the end ... God what an end, what was missing is a forgotten Aunt who died in Tasmania and left to our heroine large amount of money... Another thing is Author's humor. She can really make really funny witty remarks, that I must admit, but one must understand that there had to be some kind of balance, if you tell jokes all the time people would get tired. I can't believe I wrote such a long review of such insignificant book. However, this is the first chick-lit book that I have read, maybe that was why I was too harsh. So my final words are if you are looking for a lite reading... still avoid this book, go for a walk until you decide to read something more serious or until the reading urge disappears.
PS I hope my friend will never see this review, after all it was her present for my birthday :-(
PS I hope my friend will never see this review, after all it was her present for my birthday :-(
February 4, 2019
03.09.2016
Колкото повече остарявам, толкова по-хард хумор харесвам.
Уви, разделих се с повечето си илюзии.
Та , Кати Лети е като наръчник за хард хумор.
Ако можех да се изразявам толкова добре, колкото нея, щях да кажа , че ме е преписала и е прочела повечето ми мисли.
Всеки път , докато чета нейните книги се смея с глас.
Уникални хрумки има тази щура жена.
"Бракът е единствената война, в която спиш с противника."
"Съпрузите стават все по-малко необходими.Сигурно и те ще атрофират като сливиците и апендикса на някои хора."
"Съветите са като сифилиса.Всеки предпочита да дава,вместо да получава."
"Щастливият брак бе каприз на природата,също като барабанист,който притежава някакъв коефициент на интелигентност,скромен американец или дебела манекенка."
"Жените губят повече време да мислят за онова,което мъжете мислят,отколкото мъжете отделят за мислене."
"Любов е най-жестоката дума с пет букви.Бракът причинява на любовта същото,което дълбоките бархетни гащи на секса."
"Приятелите ни показват какви сме много повече от партньора и семейството.Любовниците и съпрузите идват и си отиват,децата отлитат от семейното гнездо,ала приятелките с дребнавите си забележки,с дрязгите и недоволството са гръбнакът на живота."
Колкото повече остарявам, толкова по-хард хумор харесвам.
Уви, разделих се с повечето си илюзии.
Та , Кати Лети е като наръчник за хард хумор.
Ако можех да се изразявам толкова добре, колкото нея, щях да кажа , че ме е преписала и е прочела повечето ми мисли.
Всеки път , докато чета нейните книги се смея с глас.
Уникални хрумки има тази щура жена.
"Бракът е единствената война, в която спиш с противника."
"Съпрузите стават все по-малко необходими.Сигурно и те ще атрофират като сливиците и апендикса на някои хора."
"Съветите са като сифилиса.Всеки предпочита да дава,вместо да получава."
"Щастливият брак бе каприз на природата,също като барабанист,който притежава някакъв коефициент на интелигентност,скромен американец или дебела манекенка."
"Жените губят повече време да мислят за онова,което мъжете мислят,отколкото мъжете отделят за мислене."
"Любов е най-жестоката дума с пет букви.Бракът причинява на любовта същото,което дълбоките бархетни гащи на секса."
"Приятелите ни показват какви сме много повече от партньора и семейството.Любовниците и съпрузите идват и си отиват,децата отлитат от семейното гнездо,ала приятелките с дребнавите си забележки,с дрязгите и недоволството са гръбнакът на живота."
February 2, 2013
Review pasted from reading group on FB, as I wrote it to save anyone else from reading it!
I just moved house and in packing and unpacking all my books, I found all the ones hiding at the back I hadn't read in ages. So thought I'd pick this one up and realised why I'd never reread it. Think I bought it from a remaindered stock place, and the only reason I kept on til the end was so I could slate it on here rather than having it kick around half read on my good reads list! A series of cliches, puns and crap one-liners strung together with stereotypical characters and no redeeming features. Half the book was made up of the sort of joke you used to get on funny postcards and now get on facebook pictures, but all about how annoying either housework or husbands are. You might smile at one or two, but an entire novel based around them? I hated every single person and their attitude towards everything. This is going straight on the charity shop pile so I don't make the mistake of picking it up again.
I just moved house and in packing and unpacking all my books, I found all the ones hiding at the back I hadn't read in ages. So thought I'd pick this one up and realised why I'd never reread it. Think I bought it from a remaindered stock place, and the only reason I kept on til the end was so I could slate it on here rather than having it kick around half read on my good reads list! A series of cliches, puns and crap one-liners strung together with stereotypical characters and no redeeming features. Half the book was made up of the sort of joke you used to get on funny postcards and now get on facebook pictures, but all about how annoying either housework or husbands are. You might smile at one or two, but an entire novel based around them? I hated every single person and their attitude towards everything. This is going straight on the charity shop pile so I don't make the mistake of picking it up again.
August 29, 2011
What is this book really but a rant about husbands, marriage, horrible bosses and back-stabbing best friends? Other than being way too exaggerated, completely unbelievable and incredibly melodramatic, it's also a horrible story. We all know that in real life Cassie, Jazz and Hannah would never be friends and their husbands wouldn't all turn out to be so heartless, or so conveniently discovered in the same year. Everything fell into place too perfectly and with way more drama than anyone really experiences as a middle-aged mother of any amount of children. My mother read it and hated it and I definitely recommend that you do not waste your time with this tree-killer.
March 31, 2022
What in the holy name of crap did I just read? Here we have three backstabbing, bitter, bickering hens, oops, I mean women, women that could do with seeing a good psychologist.
I was hoping for lots of humour and fun, this was neither funny or pleasurable.
I was keen to learn a few tips on how to kill your husband, this book taught me nothing 😂 😂 😂
Narrated by the wonderful Caroline Lee which made this book tolerable.
I was hoping for lots of humour and fun, this was neither funny or pleasurable.
I was keen to learn a few tips on how to kill your husband, this book taught me nothing 😂 😂 😂
Narrated by the wonderful Caroline Lee which made this book tolerable.
April 18, 2022
Mislila sam da će me ova knjiga zabaviti i opustiti.
Tako mi se bar činilo po naslovu i kada sam pročitala kratak opis.
Ali ni blizu, naprotiv.
Pokušaj humora na početku.
Iritantni likovi.
Jedva pročitala.
Smorila me.
Nije mi se svidjela.
Naporna radnja.
Nikakvih korisnih savjeta za domaćice ovdje nema.
Ni naslov nema puno veze sa radnjom.
Knjiga o nesigurnim ženama i muževima koji varaju.
Ovu knjigu ne bih nikome preporučila.
Toliko knjiga postoji, da stvarno nema potrebe gubiti vrijeme na čitanje ove.
Završila sam je samo zato što ne volim odustajati od čitanja kad sam već počela.
Ocjena 2, jer sam se malkice nasmijala na početku.
Toliko od mene. 😁
Tako mi se bar činilo po naslovu i kada sam pročitala kratak opis.
Ali ni blizu, naprotiv.
Pokušaj humora na početku.
Iritantni likovi.
Jedva pročitala.
Smorila me.
Nije mi se svidjela.
Naporna radnja.
Nikakvih korisnih savjeta za domaćice ovdje nema.
Ni naslov nema puno veze sa radnjom.
Knjiga o nesigurnim ženama i muževima koji varaju.
Ovu knjigu ne bih nikome preporučila.
Toliko knjiga postoji, da stvarno nema potrebe gubiti vrijeme na čitanje ove.
Završila sam je samo zato što ne volim odustajati od čitanja kad sam već počela.
Ocjena 2, jer sam se malkice nasmijala na početku.
Toliko od mene. 😁
October 26, 2016
The back cover says the book is "sexy, funny and wise". I would rewrite that to say "crass, trying-to-be-funny-but-not-succeeding and trite". Terrible. I only finished it out of a long-held habit of not being able to abandon a book even when I don't like it. Avoid.
December 28, 2018
What a horrible book filled with horrible characters. All three main characters have husbands that are apparently the spawn of Satan, prompting me to wonder about the author’s own love life and what drove her to hate men so much.
The women themselves were awful as well. I get that Jazz was going through a hard time, but her self destructive behaviour was very hard to sit through for so many pages.
The ending - which did surprise me, I’ll admit - proves how much she needs help. I also despise the decision that Cass made in the end, and hate the third woman’s storyline (I can’t even recall her name right now) as it was just so random and made it even more clear that the author wanted to show the many, many, many different ways that men can be awful human beings.
Including making one woman’s 17 y/o son have an affair with his mother’s best friend, and have that friend rub it in her face as she thought it was the most hilarious thing ever!
The author even made one of the main character’s parent’s marriages nearly fall apart because, once again, the husband was shitty. No wonder people are so cynical about love and marriage when books like this exist.
I normally donate books when I’m finished with them, but this is full of such an unhealthy way to view men and relationships that I will be recycling it instead. Rubbish.
The women themselves were awful as well. I get that Jazz was going through a hard time, but her self destructive behaviour was very hard to sit through for so many pages.
The ending - which did surprise me, I’ll admit - proves how much she needs help. I also despise the decision that Cass made in the end, and hate the third woman’s storyline (I can’t even recall her name right now) as it was just so random and made it even more clear that the author wanted to show the many, many, many different ways that men can be awful human beings.
Including making one woman’s 17 y/o son have an affair with his mother’s best friend, and have that friend rub it in her face as she thought it was the most hilarious thing ever!
The author even made one of the main character’s parent’s marriages nearly fall apart because, once again, the husband was shitty. No wonder people are so cynical about love and marriage when books like this exist.
I normally donate books when I’m finished with them, but this is full of such an unhealthy way to view men and relationships that I will be recycling it instead. Rubbish.
April 20, 2014
Dumped this at the end of chapter 4. Couldn't be bothered as I found the style of writing very annoying. Over the top commentary with smart arse one liners and never a proper sentence in sight. It was tedious to read and not enjoyable. Usually enjoy Kathy Lette so this was disappointing.
March 6, 2017
If there were half stars, this book would take... half! .... only for some funny quotes like... "when there is a will, I want to be in!" It was as if the author tried to write a book where she could put every single funny phrase she knew! And that is all about it!... Boring, boring, boring...
March 11, 2022
Some parts of this book were funny, some were boring. The book has nothing to do with the title. It was all about cheating husbands and insecure women
July 27, 2021
Remembered loving this when it came out in 2006, along with Kathy Lette's other novels. Rediscovered during Victoria's 5th lockdown (Australia)- thought would read it again.
Yet reading now it's as if she's trying to shoehorn every clichéd pun, dumb husband joke and horrible experience mums have into 300 pages and I'm cringing with each page. Tapping out halfway, which is unlike me.
Yet reading now it's as if she's trying to shoehorn every clichéd pun, dumb husband joke and horrible experience mums have into 300 pages and I'm cringing with each page. Tapping out halfway, which is unlike me.
June 28, 2009
I found this silly and annoying. I struggled through it all.
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August 7, 2011Most likely the worst book I've ever read. Don't know why I even went through this annoying and inane load of rubbish.
January 8, 2012
Got to about the third chapter and couldn't go on because it was too stupid. Unrealitsitc, over-the-top characters and situations and ENDLESS lame wisecracks, puns and 'witty' asides. Insufferable.
August 1, 2018
This is a funny book about 3 women who all have terrible husbands. Their husbands are all so bad and unashamedly so it does become a bit ridiculous. One of the women plots to kill her husband and succeeds but he really was awful so it’s quite deserved!
Cassie’s experience of a working mother will strike a cord with any other working mothers out there.
A quick and light read.
Cassie’s experience of a working mother will strike a cord with any other working mothers out there.
A quick and light read.
March 5, 2024
The title was so promising but the content rather disappointing. Occasionally, the book made me laugh but it mostly intensified my aversion to men.
February 8, 2012
I really wanted to like the book, it has some of the best witty one liners I have ever heard. But I just was disappointed with how the story panned out.
***THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS***
The narrartor Cassie is a delightfully funny woman, but the frustrating thing about her is that she has absolutely no back bone until the end of the book. So she would reply back to a comment with a brillant joke, but then corrects herself saying what she actually said.
With her constant lack of backbone, it is not really surprising that her husband leaves her for a more sexually open woman. However, he does learn the error of his ways and comes back. To really enjoy the ending, you have to be a complete feminist rather than equaltist.
As in, you have to want women to be put above men, not treated equally as men (as I believe).
Since the husband comes back and completely changes himself for her, vows to clean everything in the house, be more attentive to the kids and please her first in the bedroom which is lovely of him to do, but Cassie does not have to compromise on anything she has done to drive their marriage to its grave.
I would have enjoyed the ending more if Cassie has been willing to work on something herself (it was mentioned in their therapy that she was not good at oral sex and didn't give it often... couldn't she have improved on that since Rory is willing to pick up his game on every other department in his life?!)
If this books was more realistic this book could have been great, but as it is it can pass as only ok.
***THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS***
The narrartor Cassie is a delightfully funny woman, but the frustrating thing about her is that she has absolutely no back bone until the end of the book. So she would reply back to a comment with a brillant joke, but then corrects herself saying what she actually said.
With her constant lack of backbone, it is not really surprising that her husband leaves her for a more sexually open woman. However, he does learn the error of his ways and comes back. To really enjoy the ending, you have to be a complete feminist rather than equaltist.
As in, you have to want women to be put above men, not treated equally as men (as I believe).
Since the husband comes back and completely changes himself for her, vows to clean everything in the house, be more attentive to the kids and please her first in the bedroom which is lovely of him to do, but Cassie does not have to compromise on anything she has done to drive their marriage to its grave.
I would have enjoyed the ending more if Cassie has been willing to work on something herself (it was mentioned in their therapy that she was not good at oral sex and didn't give it often... couldn't she have improved on that since Rory is willing to pick up his game on every other department in his life?!)
If this books was more realistic this book could have been great, but as it is it can pass as only ok.
July 23, 2013
I have to say I didn't actually finish this book, I thought I was someone that could read anything but this book proved me wrong.
This was one of our book club choices and one of the members called it "A vapid, vat of vomit!" lol.
I just thought it was "a shower of s**t! I thought it was crude, not at all amusing and I only read two chapters! If you like that sort of thing you'll love this as members of the book club, who managed to read it, say it is riddled with it.
Do not waste your money on this book, I paid £1.50 for it and that was too much.
If you love reading...DON'T WASTE ANY OF YOUR VALUABLE READING TIME ON IT!!!
This was one of our book club choices and one of the members called it "A vapid, vat of vomit!" lol.
I just thought it was "a shower of s**t! I thought it was crude, not at all amusing and I only read two chapters! If you like that sort of thing you'll love this as members of the book club, who managed to read it, say it is riddled with it.
Do not waste your money on this book, I paid £1.50 for it and that was too much.
If you love reading...DON'T WASTE ANY OF YOUR VALUABLE READING TIME ON IT!!!
September 21, 2010
Chose this one on a whim and likely would not have finished it except I was stricken with strep throat and had nothing else to do. The book is basically the saga of 3 women who have few morals and do little to nothing to save their marriages from breaking into a million pieces. When one of the three manages to reconcile with her husband in the end, it was too little too late for me. This is a book that would likely be enjoyed by a woman scorned by her husband, but it's not one that I would recommend.
August 29, 2012
Just WHAT in hell did I read? I don't get it. When my friend bought the book and was reading it out loud, it sounded so funny. But when I finally picked it up, it came across like one big, fat marathon of those douchey, hair-slicked-back, beefed up "dudes" on that show that teaches other normal men how to "score chicks" by using the worst puns and pick up lines possible.
She's funny off and on, yeah? I give her that, but I can't respect a book that painfully looks like a story was hastily slapped on around a list of funny puns that the author made up one night when she had some stomach gas.
She's funny off and on, yeah? I give her that, but I can't respect a book that painfully looks like a story was hastily slapped on around a list of funny puns that the author made up one night when she had some stomach gas.
September 2, 2012
hmmm I dont want to diss this book - butit just didnt hold my attention. It took me so long to read and normally I can finish a book in two days. By the last page I wa like for F's sake just end! I feel bad for my reaction but its the truth! There where some funny one liners but I felt like the author was trying to hard! I didnt really have a clear piture of who Hannah was at all I couldnt picture her in my head..... Anyway that is all!
February 25, 2014
I always saw this book sitting in my school library, never thought to pick it up and read it until I saw a drama student perform a monologue based off it.
I picked it up, read it and fell in love with it straight away.
Such a good read, very tongue in cheek.
Kathy Lette is a fantastic author and this book is gush-worthy xD
I picked it up, read it and fell in love with it straight away.
Such a good read, very tongue in cheek.
Kathy Lette is a fantastic author and this book is gush-worthy xD
August 2, 2025
Maybe I’m just not old enough to understand the characters but they absolutely pissed me off. These people are shit people. What I hated the most was that Cassy got back with her husband after he moved out with another woman! Dump his ass he’s the worst.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 8, 2021
I agree with everyone else who gave this book one star. Hideous, vulgar and about as funny as a hemorrhoid. That's a 'no' for me.
April 16, 2019
A completely light hearted read. This book is by no means a literary masterpiece or even includes a plausible storyline really! However, it has some great puns, one liners and silliness that make it enjoyable. I found particular fun in this book because the main character is a primary school teacher (like me). An easy read that relates to the single or married and just damn tired mum!
July 14, 2018
Probably the most clichéd book I've read, at least in my adult years. The storyline in itself wasn't so bad, it's just the execution that in my view failed completely. I'm giving it the two stars as it did sort of manage to hold my attention throughout the story, but maybe I was just refusing to believe it wouldn't get better...
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