Advice From A Guy Who Broke Up

The concept for the book sprang from a well-remembered “Sex” scene: The women are dissecting Miranda’s date from the previous night, offering their theories on way he declined her invitation into her apartment afterward. Carrie’s boyfriend proceeds to squash their optimism with his manly insight: “He just not that into you.” But bfore it made its way onto the small screen, this cruelly honest little line came from the mouth of Behrendt, who offered it as a real piece of advice to a writer during a “Sex and the City” story meeting.

The idea is that if a guy is giving a woman excuses (he’s busy…he doesn’t want to ruin the friendship…he’s scared of his feelings…he dropped his phone in the toilet…), he would rather chew off his own arm than tell her the truth: He’s just not that interested in her.So, Behrendt (a reformed “bad boy” who fit the pattern) and Tuccillo turned this epiphany into a book, and Oprah got her giddy mitts on it, and that was all she wrote. “Demand is huge,” says Stephanie Trout, manager of the Barnes & Noble on Northwest Highway in Dallas. “It’s mostly Oprah-driven.” She says it’s mostly women in their late 20s to early 40s asking if they have the book. For weeks, the answer was: not yet.

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