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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A little light on information, 23 Jan 2003
I was rather excited when I heard a review of this book on Radio 2... and being somewhat single at this time and having had a bit of a run of bad luck in the men department I rushed out to buy it from Amazon. The next morning it was on my doorstep.I have to say that one hour later, having read it from cover to cover, it was in the bin. The best thing about this book is its title. Flicking through it, it is printed more like the sort of thing that falls out of a cereal packet, and the content, to say the least, is peurile. I have a great love of the Bridget Jones type humour, and those great cartoon books you get for Christmas, but this is a teenaged girl's essay, and should be retitled "Assume that there are men falling over themselves to ask you out, they are all going to behave like b****ds and you must play VERY hard to get." It then proceeds to give you about 6 useful bits of information, padded out by long prose telling you that you must think you are wonderful and can catch any man (even if you are 30 stones)and you've got to behave dead cool. There is not an ounce of true humour or intellect in this very naive book. There is a big market for the intelligent 30-somethings to enjoy the Sex-in-the-City type of clever analyses of life, and this book does not touch on any real philosophy or sensible advice. It could have been written in 1960. There is no detail such as: " I fancy this bloke across the bar, how do I begin to get his attention and keep him interested?" It simply assumes that the bloke across the bar is already gagging to chat you up, and you can ignore him until he plucks up the courage, because he will eventually, if he is keen enough. Well, sorry.... life just ain't like that, and most blokes are too shy these days to approach women, because of the new super-breed of independent feminists who 'don't need to be treated like sex objects'. Let's see a book that deals with real issues and genuinely helps the huge percentage of today's single population who have been dumped and have no idea how to re-start their love lives. Marina Johnson 23rd January 2003
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