Rating: 
Summary: Take Your Ax and Body Odor Elsewhere . . . Whoever You Are!
Review: "Warning . . . Breaking a heart is one thing -- breaking the law is another." In the spirit of fun, this book does describe all sorts of illegal activities that you should not indulge in (being an ax murderer, escaping restaurants without paying, and making whoopee in an airplane lavatory). But you will probably enjoy the fantasy of escaping from these circumstances while reading the book! The book's key point is that you will "find out how to survive dozens of physically and emotionally threatening situations in bars, restaurants, bedrooms, or airplane lavatories." This is important because "human nature is much less predictable than Mother Nature." Like the other two worst-case survival handbooks, this one comes with many helpful illustrations to help you follow the advice. Here are some of my favorite sections: How to determine the gender of your date (without removing any clothing); how to tell if you date is married; what to do if you run into an obsessive ex on a date; how to fake an intense sexual experience; how to find out the name of the person you are in bed with when you've forgotten their name; how to stop a wedding of someone you want to marry; a section of useful excuses; pick up lines not to use; and fending off unwanted admirers in a bar (which includes many ways to spill drinks on them). More than the other two handbooks, this book is filled with advice that you may actually want to use some day (like how to stop someone from snoring, getting rid of excess gas, dealing with a declined credit card when you have no cash with you, and breaking up with someone in a considerate way). I only found one area where I thought the advice was wrong. There's a section on how to tell if another person is a con artist. There is advice drawn from neuro-linguistic programming that suggests that people who look to the left are lying. Actually, in most right handed people, looking left or up to the left usually means that they are remembering a visual image, or something that they have heard. If a right handed person looks right or up to the right, there is some imaginative activity going on . . . not necessarily a lie. The person may not have an experience in this area. Reverse these directions for most left-handed people. For ambidextrous people, good luck! I think that this book is not only valuable for most people who are dating, it would also make a wonderful gift for roommates to give to each other (when of an appropriate age to appreciate the references to sexual situations as well-meant humor). For guys, if the advice doesn't work out, you will also find out how to handle black eyes, meeting with police officers, and getting out on bail! Appreciate the potential humor of every situation . . . even on bad dates!!
Rating: 
Summary: Laugh out loud funny and scream out loud scary
Review: Anyone dating should read this.
Rating: 
Summary: Funny, sometimes useful, but not required
Review: As a book of humor, it's great. It has interesting scenarios and some good tips I wouldn't have thought of. I use it to decorate my coffee table in my dorm room for friends to flip through while they're hanging out. Not a serious read, though.
One scenario is something like What To Do If You Wake Up In Bed With Someone Whose Name You Forgot. One suggestion is to look through medicine cabinet and find perscription meds with her name. Kind of funny scenario, but the tip is actually helpful. The recommendation for having too much gas on a date is to go in the bathroom, get on all fours, stick your bottom... in the air, and it'll help you get it out. Kind of hard to do even in your own room, much less a dirty public restroom. If you want humor (with some good real tips), this is a good book, but if you want real advice, spend your money on a real dating tips book.
Rating:
Summary: When Murphy's Laws strikes while on a date
Review: Have you ever wanted to know how to brush off creeps? How about taking care of bad breath? How about finding out the name of the person you just slept with? This is the book for you. Anything that could possibly go wrong on a date that could be conceived of is taken care of in this book.
Rating: 
Summary: "Worst" was the worst...
Review: I initially picked up this audio book because I thought it might be funny. It was filled with some of the most ridiculous, absurd and stupid advice I have ever read or heard. Waste neither your time or money on this one. I didn't even bother with cassette 2, it went directly into the trash.
Rating:
Summary: Useful, but not as Fun
Review: I just LOVED the other two books, more so for their humor value. This one actually had some great advice on various subjects that most of us might really encounter, bad breath, a drunk date or one who moves way too fast. I would recommend as a companion book, The Romantic's Guide. It gives really inventive and creative ideas on romance, dating and keeping the fun in a relationship. Someone gave it to me for my birthday and I've really enjoyed it. It definitely makes a relationship much easier.
Rating:
Summary: Your Romance Coach Says: You Need a Laugh,, So Buy This!
Review: I'd seen the basic "Worst-Case Scenario" and got quite a kick out
of it: Reality-based solutions to highly unlikely -- but within
the realm of possibility -- situations.
When I happened on "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook:
Dating and Sex", I had to buy it. The laughs alone should be
worth the price.
And the laughs were indeed worth the price ($14.95). The chapter
on how to avoid or get rid of excessive gas is a hoot. (And
P.S., I learned a thing or two between giggles)
(I don't know if the signs of tsunamis were included in that
first issue, but if they were, the authors might have been
responsible for some survivors of that recent devastation around
the Indian Ocean. I heard today that a twelve year old girl who
had learned about tsunamis in school figured out what was
happening and was responsible for warning and saving 100
tourists. So that makes these "Worst-Case Scenario" books feel a
little more serious than the "Humor Section" might suggest.)
These books have a wining premise: They appeal to everyone's
paranoia, those fears that occupy the dark recesses of your over-
worried brain, and then give good solid advice to the questions
no one dares to ask.
Here's what this book starts with:
How to Determine Whether Your Date is an Axe Murderer
How to Determine Whether Your Date is Married
How to Determine the Gender of Your Date
How to Determine if Your Date is a Con Artist
Don't you want to be able to answer these questions? I'll bet
the authors have even thought of a few you haven't imagined yet.
And best of all, they've figured out the solutions so you don't
have to!
If you want some good laughs along with some real, concrete
solutions to your most bizarre dating worries, this is the book
for you.
(...)
Rating:
Summary: Great humor, but not actually super useful.
Review: I'm hoping the "Worst Case" series doesn't degenerate much further. The original actually *was* pretty useful, but this, the third or so in the series, is just humor, with little that's actually useful on a date. What are my dating worst-case scenarios? Getting spaghetti sauce on one's shirt, getting too drunk, inadvertently bringing up something controversial, discovering some Awful Truth about your date that makes you want to get up and run away, etc. Some of these are addressed ("How to leave a date in a hurry", "How to tell if your date is really married"), but too few to make sense. The rest are just silly (like "how to tell if your date is really a woman"). Frankly, I view this book as an enjoyable foray into bizarre problems, but not actually something useful. For all that, it IS terribly funny. The style is different from the earlier two books, but it's still hilarious imagining someone in these situations (like a guy running around a girl's apartment hoping to figure out her name from her mail before she wakes up.. advice which totally disregards that a lot of women don't go by their "official" first names!).
Rating:
Summary: Great humor, but not actually super useful.
Review: I'm hoping the "Worst Case" series doesn't degenerate much further. The original actually *was* pretty useful, but this, the third or so in the series, is just humor, with little that's actually useful on a date. What are my dating worst-case scenarios? Getting spaghetti sauce on one's shirt, getting too drunk, inadvertently bringing up something controversial, discovering some Awful Truth about your date that makes you want to get up and run away, etc. Some of these are addressed ("How to leave a date in a hurry", "How to tell if your date is really married"), but too few to make sense. The rest are just silly (like "how to tell if your date is really a woman"). Frankly, I view this book as an enjoyable foray into bizarre problems, but not actually something useful. For all that, it IS terribly funny. The style is different from the earlier two books, but it's still hilarious imagining someone in these situations (like a guy running around a girl's apartment hoping to figure out her name from her mail before she wakes up.. advice which totally disregards that a lot of women don't go by their "official" first names!).
Rating: 
Summary: A step down in quality
Review: I've previously purchased "The worst-case scenario survival handbook" and "The worst-case scenario survival handbook: Travel", and read them with much delight. I was, however, unfortunately rather disappointed when reading this book because it, contrary to the others, doesn't offer the same array of useful, graphical illustrations. I completely disagree with one reviewer who claims that this book is the only one in the series that might come in handy - au contraire, I find the advices in this book somewhat ridiculous and not usable at all.
All in all, this book isn't recommendable to anyone, and I do hope that the authors will deliver something better in their next book.
I admit that I only bought this book because I liked the others, but I also returned it again - it offers nothing that good, common sense doesn't supply tenfolds better. If you, however, are in lack of the latter, this book might come in handy, but note that the illustrations are sparce and that most of the tips are common knowledge, unlike the tips in the previous books: how to perform a tracheotomy, how to treat a leg fracture, how to find your way without a compass, how to survive a high-rise hotel fire etc.
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