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Title: Speed Dating: The Smarter, Faster Way to Lasting Love by Yaacov Deyo, Sue Deyo ISBN: 0-06-621255-3 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Comprehensive Dating Guide
Comment: Speed Dating gives valuable information about locating your soul mate without waiting precious time. Many factors go into finding that special mate. Authors Yaacov and Sue Deyo advise inner personal qualities as more important than immediate physical chemistry.
In addition, they stress the importance of having goals for yourself as well as a relationship. It is emphasized that no person is perfect. However, the authors advise that each person should determine which traits in a mate are extremely necesary and others are not necessary. The illustrations that support these points are excellent.
This is an excellent book to re-read to further teach yourself good dating habits. It is a little basic in spots, but most open minded people can learn a great deal of Speed Dating.
Rating: 5
Summary: A FUN TO READ BOOK WITH LOTS OF EXCELLENT DATING ADVICE.
Comment: I think this book is GREAT! I really enjoyed reading it a lot. The author's style is very easy to read and yet offers solid, practical advice about how to avoid the pitfalls of dating and making bad choices in today's dog eat dog singles world. Lots of great, interesting first hand accounts from both the authors and people they know. I think that this book is a MUST for all singles, whether you are 19 or 59, male or female, a religious person or a non-religious person - it doesn't matter. This book has something important to say to everyone. As a man, I feel I particularly benefited from the insights I got into women - better than the Mars-Venus stuff. My only question is: Why didn't they write this book years earlier when I started dating?! A top notch book that every single person should read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Dating For Dweebs?
Comment: If you think "Speed Dating" is going to be about those relatively new round-robin events you may have been hearing about lately where people get 6 or 10 mini-dates of something like 7 or 10 minutes duration each in one evening, that would be logical and yet you'd be wrong. Even though the authors claim to be the inventors of those now-popular events, and to have a decade's worth of experience putting such events on, this book isn't about that. It only gets eight superficial pages in the appendix, six of `em about the rules for such events. This is too bad because it would have been interesting to get the low-down on these things from some seasoned experts.
Instead, the book is about a general, goal-directed dating philosophy based heavily on the Jewish Talmud (book of wisdom) which is designed to help you find - you guessed it - your "soul mate". Yes, it's another one of those kinds of books. It turns people/men into relationship objects and dating into work, helping one develop the equivalent of a "Man Plan". (Yes, the book tries to be gender neutral but it's clearly aimed at a female audience.) The goal, of course, is that holy grail of modern womanhood, marriage and happily-ever-after-land.
One wonders when dating became so rule-laden. Even though the book is not very long, not to mention that it's broken down into inane bite-sized pieces, it doesn't seem probable that anyone trying to keep all this well-worn and old-fashioned advice in their head (if they don't already know the schtick) would be a very good date. It's especially annoying that the author's opinions are expressed as absolutes with continual cheery guarantees of eventual success if you just be yourself and do what they tell you to.
Among the sillier ideas presented is the one about developing a "dating team" of qualified adults to help you prepare for the big day and disassemble the happenings afterword. There are even questions to ask on dates, as one zooms in on whether he is The One.
I also thought their "key aspects of the personality" chart, which appeared a couple of times, was mostly bogus based on what I've studied about psychology. Doesn't the average consumer, in this world of nearly limitless choices, believe strongly that their possessions (the outermost and therefore least significant circle in their diagram) reflect their core values (the innermost circle in the diagram)? But the authors don't bother themselves with such considerations. Again, they simply state their half-baked notions as The Way It Is.
Books like this are one of the reasons *why* "today's dating scene can be brutal" (the book's very first sentence). But, hey, even a crummy strategy is better than none at all. It worked for them -- though I got the impression they developed all these ideas *after* getting married -- so it could work for you too. Dream on IMO.
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Title: Be Your Own Dating Service: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding and Maintaining Healthy Relationships by Nina Atwood ISBN: 0805040978 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: 4 Steps to bring the Right Person into your life Right Now! by Philippa Courtney ISBN: 1586390007 Publisher: Meant2Be Unlimited, inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? : Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever by Susan Page ISBN: 0609809091 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anyplace: The Smart Guide to Flirting by Susan Rabin, Barbara Lagowski ISBN: 0452270863 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: How Not to Stay Single After 40 : The Secret to Finding Passion, Love, and Fulfillment--At Last! by Nita Tucker ISBN: 0609805886 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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