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Summary: Is This Book Romantic?
Review: At first glance, you wouldn't think there was much romance in asking all these questions that this book suggests. However, the most UNromantic thing is a relationship filled with fights and arguments. I wish all my family and friends who have unstable marriages would have read this book before they tied the knot.
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Summary: Not so much...
Review: You can't imagine my fiance's disappointment when she unpackaged her copy of this "book." Looking like very little more than a college student's senior thesis, "Don't get married..." has less production value than most vanity published books. It looks like someone cut and pasted together some text in a word processor, but didn't bother with the desktop publishing program. It reads like a self help book, worse a brochure for a motivational speaker, and quotes Tony Robbins in the frontpiece. The author, in a full color photo striking his best public-speaking pose on the back cover, looks all of 23. Not to be a downer, but I'm not taking advice about how to ensure a successful marriage from someone not old enough to know whether or not he has a successful one, yet. (Unless he got married when he turned 8.) I can appreciate the marketing of this book because everyone in my office had "heard" how great it was. Unfortunately, I just learned that most of those references came from anonymous emails mentioning the quality of the book. Sounds like the same marketing scheme that propelled Blair Witch Project to such acclaim. Of course, that movie wasn't much of a movie, and "Don't get married..." isn't much of a book. Save your money. Buy a real book.
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Summary: Not quite as billed...
Review: You can't imagine the disappointment on my fiance's when she openned this book. It looks more like a college student's senior thesis than a serious book for soon-to-be wed's. The writing depends too much on bureaucratic prose, followed by long lists of questions printed in too big a font to fill space. Production value illustrates what can be accomplished with a desktop publishing program with only a few hours training (and I mean just a couple of hours of training). Then I spy the photograph of the author, who grins with a Tony Robbins authenticity (who's quoted in the book's frontpiece), and looks all of 23 years old. No offense, but I'm not taking advice aimed at making a good decision about getting married from an author who doesn't yet know if he's had a successful marriage (unless he's been married since he was 6). The hype surrounding this book has been a very powerful and successful example of the authoritative power of unsolicited email and reviews. My fiance wanted this book because she "heard" from an email about how wonderful it was. Sort of like Blair Witch Project, for lovers. Unfortunately, the book doesn't live up to the hype. I think Sentinel Press, the vanity publisher I suppose, should be sending refunds. $20 worth, it ain't.
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