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He prefers to rub his p_nis in front of a mirror, heh heh.
Don gets a book which teaches sexual positions. He acts like he doesn't know which hole to stick it into. You are supposed to find this cute and funny.
Don tells Rosie he is ready to bone her. But Rosie has changed her mind. Perhaps she rubs her v_gina in front of a mirror too.
They go on a trip to New York, ostensibly to collect more DNA samples. In their hotel room Don shows her the book of sex positions and asks if she wants to perform them. Rosie, turned off by the non-romantic nature of this, refuses. We are supposed to think that Don's clueless inviting Rosie to perform sex according to an instruction manual is cute and funny.
Click here to see the rest of this reviewThe Dean at Don's school learns that Don is collecting DNA samples without the permission of the people involved. Don is in trouble. For a brief moment you think there might be a subplot somewhere, involving some risk, however slight, to the main character, but the problem is quickly solved when another professor covers for Don and says that Don is working on a research project with him. You can keep reading and/or go back to sleep now.
Don has a fight with his friend Gene. Gene tells Don that he is a retard and everyone laughs at him. Don tells Gene that he is married and has no business boning a woman from every country on the planet. Don't worry, any minor drama created from this dissipates when Gene and Don kiss and make up in the next chapter. I think the purpose of this chapter was that the author didn't have enough story to reach 300 pages (usually the minimum for a book this size) and so had to stick in chapters that had no relation to anything in order to reach 300 pages, although, as it turned out, even with giant fonts the book still didn't quite reach the 300 page mark.
Don realizes he is in love with Rosie, even though she does not fit his questionnaire criteria. This is the dramatic climax of the book. We are supposed to think this is a tremendous revelation, even though the basic theme--that love is not something that can be reduced to a questionnaire--was telegraphed from the first chapter.
Don helps Rosie reconcile with her stepfather, Phil, who I haven't mentioned before because he is such a minor presence in the story. Then he proposes to Rosie and they get married.
