Disappointing - Rated 
I also read an extract of this in a Sunday paper, which i enjoyed and so bought the book. The extract (the first couple of pages of the book) was the best bit, afterwhich this was a bitter disappointment.
The book followed no logical story pattern, dipping in and out of events in a chaotic fashion. I really disliked the style and was not keen on the random poems and songs littered throughout the book, (a personal thing, which i understand not everyone will dislike).
Most women have some idea of what it is like to be with someone completely unsuitable, and I had hoped this may be an empowering book that may suggest staying with a loser is not the best course of action, instead you had not one ounce of sympathy for the main character because she was almost equally as much a loser as her husband.
Brilliant! - Rated 
A funny, well-observed and moving account of Linda's terrible marriage and her attempts to earn a living on the edge of the weirder side of American life in San Francisco.
Gulp it or savor it? - Rated
Some books are meant to be hogged all in one sitting, while others must be savored, doled out a few pages at a time. Linda Robertson's "What Rhymes with Bastard?" might fit in both categories. My wife picked it up to take a look when it arrived and did not move, speak, or respond to external stimuli until she finished the book later in the day. I've taken the opposite approach: parsimoniously granting myself a chapter at a time, and often flipping back to re-read. It isn't always easy to re-read, though: at times, the book tells some uncomfortable and even painful stories -- even terribly painful -- but thanks to the author's powerful voice, the book is extremely funny throughout in a way, perhaps, that only painful things can be. [caution: pedantic remark ahead] I think it's a great addition to the contemporary genre of feminine/ist/ish memoir and an inheritor of the long tradition of Anglo-American travel narratives (her adventures among the dot-com bubbleheads of California reminded me of the funniest parts of Fanny Trollope's The Domestic Manners of the Americans).
So funny buy it and laugh out loud!! - Rated
Great book made me laugh out loud - kind of tragi comic englishwoman adrift in america with a not particularly reliable husband that she has devoted her life to unsucessfully moulding..very funny and off the wall have recommended it all my mates ..look out for the nuts parents bits.
Not your average chick lit! - Rated
Very funny, with a quirky readable style that constantly delights you with a capricious turn of phrase or astute comment. But what sets this apart from 'confessional chick lit' is the honesty and perceptiveness the author brings to the portayal of the central relationship and the vibrant support the story is given by the well-observed San Francisco alternative scene.
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