Rating: 
Summary: Worst-Case Scenario has you smiling again...
Review: If you loved "Worst Case Scenario and Worst Case Scenario travel, you will absolutely love the latest version on dating and sex. If you didn't catch them, this is a great place to start. Once again, the authors have taken a light-hearted approach to serious situations and offered up some advice on how to get out of them. While most of us would hate to find ourselves in the situations in the three books, I find Dating and Sex to be the most useful. It covers a wide range of topics, like how to deal with bad dates, all the way to how to tell if your date is an axe murderer (something we all need to know). For the sometime downright hilarious to the lighter-hearted side of dating, this is a great book to own.
Rating: 
Summary: Ridiculous
Review: If you're in the mood for ridiculous (but uncreative) humor then buy this. The prior two books addressed getting out of unlikely scary situations, and that made them vicariously exciting. But most of these situations are so normal that we've all dealt with them already. The "helpful hints" come across as Grandma's Home Remedies rather than the 007 Instruction Manual. Some hints are so obvious that you'd think they were written for an alien. For example, did you know that benzoyl peroxide can help with pimples? To stop a shaving cut from bleeding, apply a tiny piece of toilet paper. If you have an obsessive Ex, then be firm when rejecting them. Gee, thanks. Plus some of the suggestions are downright odd. My favorite is the drawing on p78 showing how to get down on all fours in a restroom to expel excess gas. They should've had a scenario for what to do if someone catches you doing that.
Rating: 
Summary: good, but not as good as the others
Review: Seems the authors are trying to drag out the popularity of this series. It's an entertaining read, but not as good as the earlier books.
Rating:
Summary: 2 Stars for actual usefulness, 5 for humor
Review: Since this book is suppose to be considered for actual usefulness, I'm going to have to give it 2 stars. The few sections that are probably most useful after reading this book would be how to treat a blackeye, broken nose, how to get your shirt out of your fly, especially if you follow the advice in other areas of this book. Come on now...how many of you if you realized you smelled on a date would order two Chamomile teas, take the bags, run to the bathroom and shove them under your armpits??? If you smell that bad, you probably shouldn't even be on a date. Now, if we look at this book from a comedy side of things, it would make a great basis for a Saturday Night Live series. For all you who have read the book, picture walking into a bathroom at a local restaurant seeing one guy with tea bags in his arm pits, another guy wrestling with his fly to free his shirt, someone else laying on the floor trying to get rid of excess gas, and finally another guy getting ready to fire a trashcan through the bathroom window because his date is bad.....I'd have to say 5 STARS!!! Definitely worth it for the humor!
Rating:
Summary: Useful and humorous!
Review: Some books come along that I regret having not read much
earlier in my life . . . such is the case with THE WORST-CASE
SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: DATING AND SEX by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht and Jennifer Worick . . . it contains much useful information (often presented in humorous fashion) that would have helped me over the last 35-some years. But that said, I still learned and laughed from short but insightful
chapters as:
How to Survive Snoring;
How to Determine If Your Date is an Axe Murderer;
How to Have Sex in a Small Space;
How to Deal with a Cheating Lover;
How to Remove Difficult Clothing;
How to Fend Off an Obsessive Ex; and, of course:
How to Survive If You Wake Up Next to Someone Whose
Name You Don't Remember . . . the key, if you're at their place: Do not panic. Evidence of your partner's name exists somewhere
nearby. Your task will be to find it before she awakens or before she starts any sort of meaningful conversation. You can go the bathroom. The bathroom is a normal first place to visit first thing in the morning, and it is also a place where you might discover her name. Look through the medicine cabinet for prescription medicines with her name on the label. Sort through magazines, looking for subscription labels with her name and address. Go through a wastebasket to find discarded junk mail addressed to her. Return to the bedroom. If she is awake, ask her to make coffee for you. Use the time alone to search the bedroom for evidence. Look for: wallet, checkbook, ID or name bracelet, photo album, scrapbook, business cards (a stack of cards, not just one), or luggage labels. If she is still sleeping, look for these other items throughout the house. I was impressed by the fact that while some of this material
might sound frivolous to those never having encountered such
situations, the authors nevertheless did a thorough job of searching their work . . . they consulted a wide variety of experts, including directors of violence-prevention programs, doctors and sex educators. In addition, the illustrations by Brenda Brown greatly added to my enjoyment of this book.
Rating:
Summary: Really great and really funny - and that's how it's intended
Review: Some of the reviewers of this book have seemed not to understand that the point of this book series is not to give advice that will be seriously useful, nor is it to give advice on situations that are completely improbable either. The point is to be FUNNY, and it is! There are a lot of very funny bits - and really, who doesn't need to know how to have sex in an airplane lavatory? This is a great read and I'm already planning on making it a gift to someone in the near future. Happy disaster dating. ;)
Rating:
Summary: Fun and Useful
Review: The book was not what I expected. It was both informative and funny. With sections titled "How to Tell the Gender of Your Date" and "How to Stop a Wedding", how could you go wrong. And, it's small enough to fit in your glove compartment or pocket.
Rating:
Summary: 4/5
Review: The third installment in the insanely popular Worst-Case Scenario series tackles the fearsome world of romance, and might be the funniest yet. But while its two predecessors derived their black humor from deadpan instructions to resolving horrific and deadly situations, you'll find yourself laughing at the Dating and Sex scenarios because, more likely than not, you may have encountered one or more of them on the dating scene. The hidden snipers and voracious sharks may have been replaced by pickup artists and bad kissers, but the authors and their staff of experts dispense the dry, step-by-step instructions to dispatching them with all the detachment of a DVD player instruction manual. As usual, the breadth of scenarios is comprehensive, ranging from "How to Survive If You Wake Up Next To Someone Whose Name You Can't Remember" to "How to Remove Difficult Clothing" to "How to Fake an Orgasm" (for women and men), but by far the highlight of the book is its definitive instruction on how to end a relationship, complete with an all-occasions, customizable breakup letter aptly titled, "It's Not You, It's Me." One can only wonder what the next topic in this series will be, but if it comes even close to this, it will be a winner.
Rating:
Summary: Hilerous & Useful
Review: The Worst-Case Scenario : Dating and Sex describes situations that made laugh, like I haven't in a long time: How to find out if your date is serial killer? How to carry your drunk date? and many more.
Reading this book I thanked god for being married, but than once again, Marriage can be the subject of another book in this great series...
Rating:
Summary: Dating Survival
Review: There are some great suggestions in this book that can help you in "worst case scenarios" with dating, along with how to learn if your date is for real. Some of the topics covered are: determining if your date is married, how to fend of an ex, how to fend off a pick-up artist, dealing with a date who moves too fast, quick escape from a bad date, dealing with a bad kisser, and even how to save your date from chocking. If you are dating this book will give you some useful tips. Recommended for anyone who is single.
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