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Title: Dating for Dummies by Joy Browne ISBN: 0-7645-5072-1 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 18 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (30 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I'm alot smarter about dating now!
Comment: This is a great book for anyone who gets nervous about dating - It's very helpful. Dating can be scary sometimes, but this books helps to clarify some relational issues, and help you analyze how your date went, and perhaps what could have gone better (or worse!). Dating for dummies covers everything from flirting, to asking, to planning the first big date -- all the way to sex and breaking up! Reading this book has helped me to think more objectively about my dates, and give better advice to my friends.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent well thought out advice. A daters must read.
Comment: Everybody thinking about dating or returning to the dating scene should read it. The book is informative, written in a concise, orderly fashion from what is considered a date, getting a date, where to go for the first and subsequent dates. Includes date Do's and Don'ts The advice is up to date and very relevant. It has real stories from the authors experience. Highlighted areas of "girls stuff","guys stuff",things to avoid, short statistics that are very enlightening.Very funny and well writen. Over all an excellent book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun and easy to read, but effectiveness remains to be seen
Comment: About 1/3 or so of "Dating for Dummies" by Joy Browne is very good. It is easy and fun to read with a lot of the advice serving a purpose both within and/or outside the realm of dating. Much of that portion of the book is useful for all general human social interaction, particularly male-female interaction on various levels. The only problem with this aspect is that you can get most of this advice in hundreds of other books.
The other 2/3 are just OK. When you start to get into the sections strictly applied to dating, which is why you would likely buy this book to begin with, it starts to get a little disappointing. As another reviewer said, many times Dr. Joy puts considerably more emphasis on the female perspective than that of the male. In her sections on the best and worst life situations in which to be dating, she also often does a disservice of sorts to her own gender while discouraging males by attaching some implied truth to the theory that women care more about money, wealth, success, etc. than being with a good guy. You should never use dating as an actual cure for personal problems, like losing a job or a family member or friend, but at times, she kind of implies that everything else in your life should simply be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT before you even consider dating. Aside from the fact that perfection is non-existent, this is not healthy advice. I don't know exactly why having someone special in your life couldn't be a cause of motivation in these areas, and not just a result. In other cases, the book becomes a walking advertisement for her profession as a therapist.
Read this book at least just for the sake of having something fun to read and again, to glean some good information about everyday social interaction. With its minor flaws, it is still better by a longshot than "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating", but being that the book is entitled "DATING for Dummies", the effectiveness of the dating information should be tested with caution.
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Title: The Shy Guy's Guide To Dating : The Best Places to Meet Women, the Ten Best Pickup Lines, How to Tell if She Likes You, Eleven Women to Avoid, Do's and Don'ts for the First Date, What Girls Say...and What They Really Mean by Barry Dutter ISBN: 0312187572 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Relationships for Dummies by Kate M. Wachs ISBN: 0764553844 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 08 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Online Dating for Dummies by Judy Silverstein, Michael Lasky ISBN: 0764538152 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life (and the Eight Realities That WillSave You) by M.D. Joy Browne ISBN: 0609804731 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 21 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating (2nd Edition) by Judith Kuriansky, Judy, Dr Kuriansky ISBN: 0028627393 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 20 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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