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Summary: Essential reading for every woman
Review: As a strong advocate of woman's liberation and independence, I read The Rules with a great deal of skepticism. Yet the further I read, the more enlightened I felt. All those men I had never liked were precisely the ones that kept chasing after me. The Rules, though used inavertantly, had worked. After reading The Rules, I began to put them into practice with the ones I truly wanted and slowly but surely I noticed changes. Now, looking back on previous failed relationships, I can precisely pinpoint the rules I broke. The authors are simply applying the laws of basic human nature, laws that remain constant through time. Intelligent women should look at this book and evaluate it on the true basis for truth: whether it works. And The Rules definately fit this category!
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Summary: THE RULES are FOR FOOLS!
Review: Leave your brain and common sense behind! The RULES has to be the stupiest plan for finding marriage (forget about love--that hardly enters the picture--just getting a ring at any cost from anything that will have you!) EVER created. I cringed when I read it. It's all predicated on being a "fake" and acting like a "bimbo". Yecch! These two authors are probably laughing all the way to the bank--but I regret I wasted my money on their really purile and ridiculous "plan." There are BETTER books out there...much better. Save your money!
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Summary: Dishonest Squared - this book is way unrealistic
Review: This book is encouraging women to be so snobbish that a man will be too intimidated to even approach the women! I what Utopian fantasy is a man actually going to want to puruse a woman who constantly acts indifferent and cold and "mysterious?" Most guys are not THAT confident, and i don't even think they should be. I would think a guy was wierd if he tolerated such abusive treatment. And about not returning the phone calls! Please. If you don't return the phone calls, then he will assume you're just not interested. What's wrong with letting somebody know that you're interested with them anyway? It saves time, and it rules out all the men that don't like you in the first place. The rules does not let you be the way you want to be. They make you conform to this cold, detached individual that is not flesh and blood, but a stone cold statue.
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Summary: A five star comedy!
Review: I bought and read this book from cover to cover last night. After reading all of these reviews, I had to see for myself. As an average looking female in my late 20's who has never had a problem attracting men, I had to find out... am I doing everything right? And the answer I got was a very loud "NO!!!" I break all of the rules on a consistent basis! I always thought that the men I date are charismatic, interesting, and full of adventure. With all of the proposals that I have received, I just naturally assumed I was doing things right! But I wasn't. I's so thankful for this book. Now I will follow all of the rules so that I can be a cookie cutter "Rules girl" myself. I want to be a happy homemaker whose duty it is to daily wash the feet of her hard working husband. I want a life of domestic floor scrubbing bliss. I want to learn how to attract the perfect type of chauvenistic, barberic, hunter and gatherer type of husband who will value me for how pretty I wear my lipstick and how easily I bow down to him on every issue. If you want these things too, buy this book take it to heart. Rules girls rule.
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Summary: Not Worth One Star
Review: I have to agree with those who would give this book a negative rating. Frankly, it isn't worth spending your time reading. The readers who referred you to Barbara DeAngelis' work should be applauded. But Fein and Schneider produced a mass market gem, didn't they? Trite, stereotypical and implies that a woman's mission in life is to find a man. Most of my male friends would be appalled as well.
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Summary: Back-to-Basics Common Sense
Review: Times may change, but people never do. Human nature was the same in Grandma's time as it is now. Feminists may scream "Foul!" but the fact remains that women who are just too "available" often find themselves that way on a permanent basis.This book takes all that advice that older women have been passing down to younger women through the generations and makes it fresh and applicable to today. I showed this book to my husband and he chuckled but admitted that he agreed with the premise of this book. As his mom told him "why buy the cow when you can get all the milk you want for free?" Just as a sidenote, I "accidently" landed my husband 14 years ago by doing many of the same things that this book advocates. This wasn't intentional (honest!) but goes to prove that "The Rules" work. I highly recommend this book to every woman over the age of 14. Women have much more power and control over their own bodies and their own destinies than they realize and it's well-past time that we take that message to heart. What could be more "feminist" than that? The concept that we can choose, rather than being chosen, is a beautiful thing. This book merely reminds us of this important fact.
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Summary: So pathetic and sad it was funny
Review: While one part of me can't believe people actually think this is what is love is about, the other part (that actually sees people) treat each other knows that they think that this is love. Of course they all seem to be miserable, unhappy people in thier lives and relationships. Maybe they like it that way. Remember, what ye sow, so shall ye reap. In other words what goes around comes around and if you treat your "loved" one like this expect to get it in kind. This is a truely sick book and please don't let your children read it. Of course having seen people live life and love this way I had to laugh at it, it was cartoon funny. A good example of what not to do in a relationship.
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Summary: Even Robins do "The Rules"
Review: I had first purchased this book back when all the hype about it was going on. I read it, I liked it, but I never followed it's advice. Shortly after I found myself in a horrid situation with a man, which took me two years to recover from. A short time ago I was rereading Diana Ackerman's "A Natural History of Love", when a few of the things she was relating struck a cord. She was talking about Robins. Yes, bird. The interaction between the Robins and the way the female acted sounded very much like "The Rules"! There was also a story of a man who fell in love with a woman who didn't return his love. The more she resisted, the more he chased her. It was another "Rules" story. In my own life I've seen these principles work. When I was young I was very shy, and delt with the fact I had been abandoned by my Father. I pushed guys away, even those I liked. I kept this up for years, and the ones that were attracted to me kept hanging on. When I've been honest with my feeling, and been open to men straight away, It always ends the same... I get hurt. From personal experiance I know it works. History shows it works. Nature shows it works. Biology Shows it works. Don't discount the advice this book has to give...
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Summary: For Women who have no boundaries
Review: Not everyone needs the book Alcoholics Anonymous: Not everyone needs The Rules. But some women do: the ones who throw themselves at men and get hurt again and again and again and again and again... The first time I read this book, I thought, "well, not for me." But, I hadn't "bottomed out" on my behavior. The second time I read it, after one more heart break, I was ready to take their word for it and follow their suggestions.
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Summary: New title THE GAME
Review: This book is about US vs. THEM. It is really narrow minded, selfish, controlling, spitefull, game playing and totally lacking in love, heart, compassion, understanding, tenderness and trust. If that is what you want then you will get your creation. I would never date women like this, don't have any women friends like this and except for a few relatives I can't change, I don't want any part of it in my life. It is for the truly hard up and unhappy. Hook a man? No, you will land a frog. ICK, nasty book, truly a giant leap backward.
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