Virtual Love

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Summary: This is one you will want to read
Review: For every one who ever had an online relationship or thought about answering a personal ad, this is the book for you. Using actual emails exchanged between Pat and Barry, the book explores a relationship developing between two lonely professionals over a 56-day period. Calheiros adds notes to explain some of the 'off-line' activities, but primarily this is a work of non-fiction. It may change the way you feel about chat rooms, on-line relationships, and dating in general.

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Summary: Online romance
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Virtual Love. It brings to the forefront a new era of human contact and communication in which the participants can anonymously meet and exchange, honestly, their opinions and, ultimately, their emotions regarding the complete broad spectrum of human thought and feeling. In this medium barriers evaporate and depth of emotion can surface more readily than in person to person in-the-flesh contact. Both Barry and Pat were searching for that special someone and, through random chance, found each other on the internet and began corresponding. It was apparent to this reader that they soon found connections which they heartily explored with each other, including their respective feelings on love and romance. Seeing their relationship develop over the course of their 56 day email connection was similar to watching a flower opening into a bloom in slow motion. The reader is kept in suspense as to how they will finally meet in person and refreshed as to their increasingly turning up the heat on how they are feeling, and desiring, the other. Both Barry and Pat had been in relationships before and I could sense an initial tentativeness in letting down their respective guards. With frequent email contact a trust soon developed between them along with a dependency on each other for that sometime elusive emotion we call love.
Much credit goes to the author, Judy Calheiros, for compiling their communications and comments to keep the reader engaged in how this romance between Barry and Pat will evolve and resolve. Will this be "the real thing", or will it be a path to a dead end by Barry and Pat and lessons learned regarding chance and the hazards of internet romance? Read this engaging novel and find out.

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Summary: Love and Romance is still alive and well.....
Review: The book brought back memories of my own cyber experiences with love. It is voyeurism at its best, and re-affirms what I've always known...that it all starts in the mind. If you've ever exchanged love letters with someone or had a cyber experience of your own, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. With each email exchange, I could sense the attraction growing. Definitely a feel-good book that makes you realize that love and romance are still alive and well.

Rating:
Summary: Love and Romance is still alive and well.....
Review: The book brought back memories of my own cyber experiences with love. It is voyeurism at its best, and re-affirms what I've always known...that it all starts in the mind. If you've ever exchanged love letters with someone or had a cyber experience of your own, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. With each email exchange, I could sense the attraction growing. Definitely a feel-good book that makes you realize that love and romance are still alive and well.