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Summary: Finally!!!
Review: This is a flat out honest and hilarious book-one that every single girl should memorize!!! Hats off to Daily for straight talk and lots of laughs. Even if you dump more than you get dumped--this is a great book for any woman who is dating today. A great gift too!
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money
Review: This short book wouldn't help anyone. With large type and short chapters, this book wouldn't help anyone who watches one episode of Oprah. Nothing in here you haven't seen, read or heard before. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Very basic - nothing new here.
Review: Thought this would be a good book after reading the reviews. However after reading the book, which took about 5 minutes, I hadn't gained any useful information. Didn't think is was as humourous as other reviewers. Save your money.
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Summary: Not Quite
Review: To be honest, I found the book sad. There is probably some pragmatic truth in it, but....
...If I could never call a man, I have to say that this is not a person I'd want a relationship with. If he has that much of a problem with my calling him, then he's not really my kind of guy.
And, as for having him pick me up at my doorstep?
In today's world, there is no way that's going to happen, not on the first date. Meeting someone at a public place is the only way until I get to know him. If I'm going to be so careful about my feelings, it only makes good sense I will be equally careful about my safety, as well. Just because you have perhaps seen someone a few times and met them in person doesn't mean you want them to know where you live...not until you really find out what they're like.
Ms. Daily does make some valid points...to be sure, it's not wise to work too hard for any relationship. But, paradoxically, if you follow her advice, you are working very hard...you are playing a power game with the person you hope to have a relationship with. This is a very bad beginning. I would really hope for a bit more sincerity and honesty than Ms. Daily is suggesting. Frankly, I wouldn't be willing to settle for less.
I'm afraid that Ms. Daily's advice was a bit too much like "The Cosmo Rules of Dating" for my taste. I had hoped that perhaps both men and women had evolved beyond that phase of development into something a bit more satisfying.
Sure, dating's a game. But it's a game you have to eventually stop playing if you ever really want a serious relationship.
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Summary: Should be called HEADGAMES 101
Review: What is this? Suddenly it's no longer a good thing to be an independent woman and make any moves? Suddenly it's hand all the visible power to the men to soothe their egos and pull strings and manipulate them behind their backs? I'm a gay man and I find this whole book offensive. I spent a fun filled night with a single female friend who has more class than these "dream girls" can ever hope to have and we destroyed this book from cover to cover. Men beware! There is a new breed of women out there who are being encouraged to play games, which include playing you off against 2 other men at a time in a "dating cycle". If a man was found to be doing this he would be up for castration. Oh but it's okay for women to do this, says the author, her justification being that the men will pay for all the dates and leave the women with all sorts of money for lovely clothes, shoes, and makeovers. Well yippppeeee. And they said Britney Spears was disempowering for "the cause".
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Summary: Unrealistic advice
Review: While I admit that I am not nearly as experienced as the author, I know enough to realize that while much of the advice is useful, a lot of it is not very good or useful. For instance, it is downright rude to not return a guy's call. He will stop calling if you don't return his calls. Also, in the book "Why men marry some women and not others" statistics show that it was the woman who first brought up commitment and marriage a majority of the time, while Lisa Daily contends that a woman should never ever say the word marriage. Also, most of her advice seems to be based on the fact that "it worked for my friends and me, and we're all happily married" which doesn't seem like a necessarily good basis for judgment. There is some good advice however. The holding out before having sex is very good advice, and her comment that a man should always pick up a woman and pay is useful as well. The problem is, her good advice seems to be mixed with bad. Why Men Love Bitches is definately a better, more practical book.
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