Aziz is one of my favorite comedians. Despite some of the allegations against him, his role as Tom Haverford in Parks and Rec and high pitched stand up routines are always a sure fire way to put me in a good mood. To be honest I read Modern Romance solely because I am an Aziz fan. While this book definitely has his Tom Haverford Entertainment 720 flare and a bunch of laughs, it actually makes some good points. And at a lot of points in the book it makes you feel like a real jerk. For example, the act of ghosting is inherently such an awful thing when he compares it to prior generations who had to trust that both people would meet up at a designated location at a specific time after a phone call. Sure some people got stood up, but we leave others on read constantly (I am no better trust me). This and looking at different cultural phenomena like arranged marriages, which his parents went through, adds to the message this book tries to tell which is: yes love is weird, but with technology it become so much weirder.