Published: April 27, 2012
Words: 94,525 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476124278

Short description

Sebastian Behr used to have everything he wanted: high paying executive job, big house, and a pretty wife. Now his life looks like he lives in a card board box - his wife has a boyfriend, unemployment won't pay the mortgage and his single friends (card carrying members of the "He-man Woman Haters Club) are his new roommates. When life gives you lemons, add tequila.

Extended description

It's so easy to be a bad boy when you no longer have to be good.

Sebastian Behr used to be a good boy. Hot shot, high flying call centre executive, he had a little piece of everything: respect, a huge paycheck, beautiful wife, high-end cars, and a big house. The only things left to get were a couple of nice kids and that happy coast to a comfortable retirement. Nothing was supposed to get in his way. Instead, his wife got a boyfriend, his job got downsized and he's taken in some new roommates. And now, with nothing else to do, it's all boobs, booze, and rejection letters. Sebastian knows what it takes to be good, but does he have what it really takes to be bad?

Ever wonder what a man thinks when he picks a woman out of a crowd and convinces her to sleep with him? Ever wonder what he thinks about himself when he does it? Sebastian Behr can tell you. (Read more) It's so easy to be a bad boy when you no longer have to be good.

Sebastian Behr used to be a good boy. Hot shot, high flying call centre executive, he had a little piece of everything: respect, a huge paycheck, beautiful wife, high-end cars, and a big house. The only things left to get were a couple of nice kids and that happy coast to a comfortable retirement. Nothing was supposed to get in his way. Instead, his wife got a boyfriend, his job got downsized and he's taken in some new roommates. And now, with nothing else to do, it's all boobs, booze, and rejection letters. Sebastian knows what it takes to be good, but does he have what it really takes to be bad?

Ever wonder what a man thinks when he picks a woman out of a crowd and convinces her to sleep with him? Ever wonder what he thinks about himself when he does it? Sebastian Behr can tell you.

Riotously funny, refreshingly honest, and deceptively insightful, Ten Toes Down is a spirited personal odyssey that follows Sebastian Behr as he searches for his place in the world in the wake of an unexpected divorce, countless hangovers and endless available women. Venturing boldly into the heart of the contemporary male, Ten Toes Down wallows just long enough in the libidinous antics and bad boy manners of Sebastian’s post-divorce regression to deliver the reader a boisterous ride to the dirty side of town
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Tags

romance, friendship, dating, marriage, humor, sex, identity, divorce, drinking, unemployment, heartbreak, battle of the sexes, mysogyny, hookingup

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Reviews

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Review by: Brendan Oxford on May 01, 2012 :
When I first picked up this book I wasn’t sure that I’d like it, or what to expect at all. This book is a large step out of my comfort zone of sci-fi and fantasy, but I’m pleased to report that it was fantastic. Ten Toes Down is fast paced with each adventure starting before our main character Sebastian, or even the reader, gets a chance to catch a breath after the last one ended. This book is a must read for guys everywhere, whether it be to commiserate with Sebastian and his friends, live vicariously through them, or even just think “Man, I’m glad I’m not like them.” Regardless, you’ll be sure to be laughing throughout. I found this book to be a quick read, but this is because when I picked it up I didn’t put it down until my boss was glaring at me for reading at work, or my eyes were drooping and the words were blurring hours past my bedtime. I read the book on the bus, trains, streetcars and subways, and was very disappointed when I flipped to the last page.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: K Surmanski on April 30, 2012 :
"Ten Toes Down" starts explosively, introducing Sebastian Behr hungover in the front seat of his truck, then flipping back to the day it all started -- when he innocently answered his wife's phone and came ear-to-ear with her long-term lover. This is the story of Sebastian, an average guy with a hotshot job just trying to play things by the book. When his white-picket-fence plans get blown out of the water by his wife's affair, Sebastian gets back with his bachelor buddies and is determined to enjoy life, and every beer, bar and casual hook-up along the way. Seductive, yes, but when Sebastian loses his job in the recession of 2008, things start to spiral out of control... This is a well-written but wild ride with a cynical edge that'll keep you turning the pages. And somehow, between the crazy escapades and endless beers, it'll make you reconsider what it really is that we want from good times, close friends and hot sex.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: K Surmanski on April 30, 2012 :
"Ten Toes Down" starts explosively, introducing Sebastian Behr hungover in the front seat of his truck, then flipping back to the day it all started -- when he innocently answered his wife's phone and came ear-to-ear with her long-term lover. This is the story of Sebastian, an average guy with a hotshot job just trying to play things by the book. When his white-picket-fence plans get blown out of the water by his wife's affair, Sebastian gets back with his bachelor buddies and is determined to enjoy life, and every beer, bar and casual hook-up along the way. Seductive, yes, but when Sebastian loses his job in the recession of 2008, things start to spiral out of control...
This is a well-written but wild ride with a cynical edge that'll keep you turning the pages. And somehow, between the crazy escapades and endless beers, it'll make you reconsider what it really is that we want from good times, close friends and hot sex.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: Neil Hurlbut on April 27, 2012 :
Great book! Very entertaining, lots of humor, comedy of errors. Everybody knows or knew someone like Sebastian Behr, that guy that could pick up any girl. Now I know how that guy I knew back in highschool turned out! Conrad really knows exactly how men think, this book is a testimate to that. He also has the male ego down perfectly. I felt I could really relate to the characters and their shenanigans (been there done that comes to mind)
Definitely recommend this, lots of fun and you might even learn a thing or two!
Best book I've read in a while.
(review of free book)

Review by: Elizabeth Vandenenden on April 27, 2012 :
Who knew being unattached and unemployed could be so much fun! This is the story of Sebastian Behr, the man who had everything, and then had it all taken away from him. After his wife leaves him Sebastian turns to the most powerful drug on the market: sex.
With his buddies cheering him on, Sebastian uses this sedative to the point of overdose. The friendships and the high jinx will keep you turning the pages.
Asher Conrad's style is both insightful and funny.
(review of free book)

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