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Summary: How To Look Desperate Trying To Find a Husband
Review: Greenwald's book presents a very practical, business-like approach in a pursuit of a husband. Although the advise that she gives is very practical (placing a profile on an internet datig site, going for "volume", being in places where single men are more likely to be), some of Rachel's ideas appear to be copied from an MBA course book. Any woman that would follow her plan would appear desperate. Telemarketing (calling every possible person you know on earth) would definitely make a woman look needy, desperate to find a husband, and that's not what men want to see! Finding a mentor, quarterly revisions of "the program", and sorry.... suggesting plastic surgeries and cellulite treatments is a little too much! I agree that to be attractive we have to take good care of ourselves, stay in shape, dress nice, and be interesting, but please, BE YOURSELVES LADIES! And this branding concept! Just be yourself, be happy, don't strive to be someone you're not, and try to meet as many men as possible. You'll meet your guy :)
There's no need to deprive dating from having fun and natural behavior.
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Summary: Totally Unrealistic & Useless
Review: This book is a joke! The tips Rachel suggests are ridiculous, and if you use them you're going to look like a desparate looser. Are you really going to have a friend call the guy who dumped you and ask why? I think that guy will say, "I dumped you because you have your friends conduct exit interviews!" Finding a husband is NOT like running a business. Rachel wasn't over 35 when she got married, so it appears, so this is a [lie]. Don't waste your time or money!
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Summary: Following these steps you're bound to find love
Review: Greenwald's idea of marketing yourself really makes sense. So often I hear women say "Where can I go to find good men?". This book has a multitude of answers and can make the difference between living alone for many years and finding someone special to share your life with. It's up to the individual to decide which steps are for her/him. A person living a full life may still need ideas for finding a higher volume of men. Why not do everything you can to find what you feel your life is missing? Go for it! Enjoy it!
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Summary: Unsatisfied
Review: I bought this book because the title was catchy and because I'm interested in meeting my husband. Unfortunately I found the book to be disappointing for the following reasons: 1)The author's writing shouted at me as if I were an 18 year old Army recruit. 2)For anyone who has been single a while, these ideas are not new, and 3)While I'm all for looking my best, being encouraged to grow my hair long and buy a push-up bra to maximize my visual appeal is insulting to me and to the man I want to attract. My suggestion: take the money you would have spent on the book and apply it to doing something you ABSOLUTELY LOVE...something that makes you feel alive from the inside out. In the end the only way to win at finding a husband is to win at finding a life.
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Summary: After 35 previous husbands? Is that what the title means?
Review: It's a book like this that makes me really glad I'm a lesbian.
Ya'll have fun out there, but I wouldn't advise using this book.
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Summary: Desparate...
Review: Here some tips that REALLY work with REAL guys:a) be yourself
b) wear high heels
c) disclose substance abuse problems
d) pick up a dinner check every now and so often... It's that simple. Don't waste your money on this book and avoid embarrassing yourself.
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Summary: Following these steps you're bound to find love
Review: Greenwald's idea of marketing yourself really makes sense. So often I hear women say "Where can I go to find good men?". This book has a multitude of answers and can make the difference between living alone for many years and finding someone special to share your life with. It's up to the individual to decide which steps are for her/him. A person living a full life may still need ideas for finding a higher volume of men. Why not do everything you can to find what you feel your life is missing? Go for it! Enjoy it!
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Summary: A word of advice (free of charge)
Review: I hope some of the potential buyers of this book will have the good sense of asking themselves a single basic question, which should spare them a few dollars, a lot of heartache, and a lifetime of unfulfillment: WHY do you want a husband (or a mate or a boyfriend or whatever)?
If you feel a "void" in your life, know that it is coming from inside, and nothing on the outside will make it go away - not really, or permanently. Nor it should. Explore what exactly are you missing; cultivate within yourself the personality traits that you find appealing in other people; try do determine when and how exactly did the idea of "having" to get married first entered your mind. (It's not "natural" - it doesn't happen to everyone.) We are born alone, and we die alone. But in the meantime, we can have a jolly good time just being ourselves. As to the book itself... just one more question: would you REALLY want to spend your life with a man who would marry a woman because she wears a padded bra...? (If you are looking for such a man, you may indeed need this book: men THAT stupid and shallow are hard to find.) Do yourself a favour: go and have some fun just finding & being yourself!
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Summary: Such an embarrassment, I will not justify it with a purchase
Review: Granted, it is perhaps absurd that I write a review on a book I have not even read. I am essentially writing a review on a book whose premice I abhore and which I would never purchase just based on the absurdity of its agenda. I was completely offended to receive a personal email from AMAZON.COM with information on this book that was essentially written and published to 'save' the likes of women like myself -- old maid women over 35 -- from dying alone and childless. No where in the description of the book or the text of it's inside jacket did the author offer any suggestions on how/where/why to meet a good man, a quality man, a best friend and a mate....instead she addressed this 'species' of desperate women and gave them guidelines on how to 'find a man' even if it meant comprimising your dignity, morals and personal boundaries. As someone who does not consider herself a feminist, but does consider herself a good person, an intelligent,capable, and professional single woman, this is abhorent and insulting....I would love to see not only the author's success rate with her book on marriage numbers but her numbers of women/readers in happy, satisfying relationships that did not end shortly in divorce....please have faith in yourselves and go with your heart and your instincts...don't listen to authors who whipped out a cheesy novel in 3 days to make a profit. I hope AMAZON feels as embarrassed as I do by this book recommendation and apologizes to all single women they sent this email too. I personally will not be purchasing any more books/products from AMAZON. FYI --www.Barnesandnoble.com
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Summary: Desperate approach counterproductive to marrying
Review: Girls don't waste your money on this one!
I wish I hadn't.
Any of the good suggestions in the book are common sense-frequent different places,breakfast at Starbucks rather than home, consider guys outside your usual criteria, etc. Hardly new ideas! And this is where the usefulness of this book stops. Other suggestions from this book are basically lifted from 'the Rules' dating book-not to continue to aggressively pursue guys, package yourself attractively-but any ideas on this are better presented in Rules 1&2-Fein & Schneider. The reality is this: marketing ideas that work in the business world DO NOT necessarily work in man/woman relationships-THE VERY REASON MANY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS WOMEN ARE WITHOUT FULFILLING PERSONAL PARNERSHIPS.
The marketing push suggesting that you write to friends/acquaintances discussing your interest in meeting & actually asking to be introduced to eligible males, smacks of pure desperation and if word got around, as it surely would, of anyone writing such ridiculous letters, any half-sane man who was aware of such behaviour would run a mile!
Furthermore the book suggests following such letters with gifts etc!!??
One can only wonder is Rachel Greenwald so misguided that she actually believes these tactics workable to help women find husbands (I think not) or more likely the desperate ploy to make a buck on a longshot that it may enjoy some of the success of the Rules. Her marketing of the book has been good, media coverage etc(I was fool enough to buy it),unfortunately, the content of the book is at best:generally poor, at worse: misleading and truly counterproductive to women finding that partner.
Save your money on this one , Sisters!
I say, reread the Rules 1&2, Fein & Schneider, adopting a more outgoing approach, at least in the initial encounter, to enhance your chances of meeting and keeping your Mr Right.
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