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Summary: I have NOT read this book! However . . .
Review: I have NOT read this book! However, if you can get your hands on "The Portable Dorothy Parker" (available through Amazon), you might want to read HER review of this book.
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Summary: the previous review is just stupid
Review: Long before John Gray or Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider wrote their best sellers, Doris Langley-Moore was advising young women about the art of romance. Langley-Moore's writing is clear, precise and classy, and is even more relavent today than when it was written. She breaks down the art of attraction, details how to develop feminine wiles, and explains why men reject 'nice' women. TOTLA is written as a dialogue between two characters which allows her to address areas of ignorance without insulting the reader. The editor's notes however are highly annoying and detract, rather than add, from the wisdom within this book. Skip right over them if you can.
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Summary: Could be the most influential read of your year.
Review: Once, I had a friend who had men falling all over her. Somehow, she knew how their brains were hard-wired. In fact, she would tell me, "do X, then Y, then Z, and he will call." And, (though he'd never called before), he called! For the past 10 years I've been trying to figure out what magic formula she used. This book explains it. Of course, not all men are the same, and the book adds the disclaimer that the techniques suggested work on men with rather conventional views toward women. But, it adds, most men are rather similar in what attracts them. (After all, how many men do you know who wouldn't date Meg Ryan?)
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Summary: the previous review is just stupid
Review: Why do people post who have NOT read the book they are writing a review for?! Like the poster below. Don't bother seeking Dorothy Parker's review of Technique of the Love Affair, like I did, thinking Parker maybe wrote more, because it's IN THE BOOK! And is, like, a paragraph long, at best; more than half is quoted on the very page you're reading! That rant aside, I love this book. While one should take its advice as lightly as its tone, it has invaluable tips for relating to men, especially the majority who, as Moore describes, are conformists congratulating themselves for being exceptional individuals, ie, supremely attached to the particular status symbols and labels of their class. Which, as an influence in paramour/mate selection, is NOT to be underestimated, personal experience has shown me. Moore's advice has been especially enlightening during some perplexing encounters with the male species; I am increasingly indebted to her as I get older. Doris Langley Moore deserves more appreciation!
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