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Summary: Enjoyable as always!
Review: "Dating Game, by Danielle Steel is a fun story and it was as enjoyable as I thought it would be!
Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable as always!
Review: "Dating Game, by Danielle Steel is a fun story and it was as enjoyable as I thought it would be!
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Summary: I think she's back on track
Review: After a few novels that just weren't up to par, Danielle Steel seems to have found her inspiration again. Dating Game is about Paris Armstrong whose husband comes home one day and tells her he wants a divorce, he's in love with another woman & would rather be with her than his wife of 24 years. Now Paris is forced to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and try & make a new life for herself. The first question is: does she want to? The second: how does she do that? Third: Will she ever want to be with another man again, be able to trust him? I put myself in Paris's shoes and it was heart-wrenching, what this woman went through. We've probably all been there (being left), so it's kind of neat to read about someone & how they deal with their struggle. I enjoyed not only the story, but the characters. Danielle really did a good job with this book, she makes you care about the characters & what will happen to them, as she does with most of her books. The best aspect about this book though were all of the funny dates Paris goes on. It's too funny! If you're looking for something newer of Steel's to read, try this book or Answered Prayers & Safe Harbour- they all are examples that she can still write moving love stories.
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Summary: Excellent, and I'd know.
Review: After all, I am the Danielle Steel expert. I've read pretty much everything she's done. And, I'm hardly shy when it comes to admitting she's got some pretty bad stuff out there. "Dating Game" is not one of them. The sense of movement, action, and adventure is very prevalent here, as divorcee, Paris Armstrong, endures being dumped by her long-time husband, moving cross-country, forging a new life, enduring several typical flaky "California" type men as dates (very realistic), and through it all, keeping her sense of humor. This has got to be the funniest Danielle Steel I have read in a long time. What else is new here? A gay subplot. Yes, you heard correctly. I can't remember a Danielle Steel novel ever featuring gay characters. All right, there was a little blurb, right at the end of "The Wedding" about lesbianism---but not the somewhat in-depth treatment gays and AIDs gets here in "Dating Game." Danielle Steel hasn't had San Francisco as a setting for one of her novels in a while. Well, at least not since 1999's awful "Irresistible Forces." Danielle Steel actually lives in the town, so if there's anyone who knows San Francisco, and can write with authority on the town and it's wacky eligible bachelors, it's Danielle Steel. "Dating Game" is quite a page-turner and quite a happy novel as you follow along with Paris and her San Francisco dating adventures. It's fun to try to guess which parts of this novel are autobiographical, as Danielle Steel has talked about her own return into the San Francisco dating world, and how she based this book on her own personal adventures. It's incredible that after all these years Steel can still turn out fresh and invigorating ideas when she wants to. I place "Dating Game" with my other recent Danielle Steel favorites: "The Wedding" and "Lone Eagle." I also, somewhat enjoyed "Sunset In St. Tropez" and "Answered Prayers." I look forward to reading Danielle Steel's "Johnny Angel" next, as I see this author has still has some talent in her yet!
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Summary: Finally.....not the same old book!
Review: After reading all of DS books....I finally happened upon one that DOESNT sound just like all the rest of them. Yes - Paris' husband leaves and yes- she tries to pick up the pieces, but this book not only had a dramatic ending, it didnt leave me bored halfway through. The twist on the plot was refreshing, and the addition of Paris' children kept it moving at a good pace.
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Summary: I think I read this a few years ago.
Review: As a life long D.S. fan it pains to say this, Danielle new material please, I find myself hoping that something other than her husband leaving,children growing up will happen to Paris. I think we die hard fans have sung this song before. But has a devoted I'll keep buying them.....JUst please something different.
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Summary: "Fun Book"
Review: Being this writer's #1 fan, let me tell you Danielle's books keep getting better and better! You are in for a real treat with this one! (Recommended!)
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Summary: Dating Game
Review: Boring! I have read all of Danielle Steel's books and this has to be the most boring of all of her novels. I skipped many paragraphs while reading it. It was very predictable. I hope her next novel is better.
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Summary: HANG IT UP, DANIELLE!
Review: DANIELLE STEEL DID HER BEST WORK YEARS AGO. HER CURRENT BOOKS ARE REPETITIVE WITHIN THEMSELVES AND WITH EACH OTHER. THERE IS NO EXCITEMENT TO HER STORIES. THERE IS NO URGENCY TO READ THEM. THE ENDING IS OBVIOUS, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING THERE. ACTUALLY, THIS STORY WAS A YAWN AND ONLY MILDLY AMUSING THANKS TO BIX MASON. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HER SPEND A COUPLE OF YEARS ON A NOVEL INSTEAD OF TURNING THEM OUT EVERY SIX MONTHS AND THEN PERHAPS MORE DEPTH IN HER STORY LINE CAN BE ACHIEVED. I THINK THAT THE TALENT IS STILL THERE, IT JUST NEEDS TO BE RE-AWAKENED...
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Summary: Fairy tales
Review: Danielle Steel stories are always so fairy tale type, macho prince on a white horse, weepy needy naive princess in a pink dress and all. If something is bad it is all bad, if it is good it is all good. Nothing in between. Everything falls into place. A character would start as a very busy boss of a very profitting business, very tough boss with no escape, and he would turn out to be a too-caring babysitter with nothing to do at all if the storyline needs it. Only Americans can take so much juvenile crap because they choose to live in a fantasy world and this lady writer is just feeding them with it. From my experience female writers happen to have a weak capability in depicting male characters, they get so anxious to cover up this inability that they tend to make all the male characters from their dreams with a little touch from their real life. As a result the male characters are all depicted as phony, hard-to-believe type.
The way of storytelling is so shallow, even a 12-year-old will laugh at it.
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