How to Date in a Post-Dating World

How to Date in a Post-Dating World
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.77
EAN: 9781570614705
ISBN: 1570614709
Label: Sasquatch Books
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2006-04-12
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Studio: Sasquatch Books

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Taking up where Emily Post and Miss Manners left off, Diane Mapes counsels the dating-distressed on today’s new rules of courtship. This smart, savvy etiquette guide addresses both nuts-and-bolts questions (Who asks? Who pays? Who makes the first call? Who brings out the condoms?) as well as the more puzzling aspects of modern romance (Do I really need to tell my new girlfriend that I had her investigated?). Advice, behavioral examples, and dating horror stories are gleaned from a number of sources, including singles, psychologists, scholars, authors, etiquette experts, relationship coaches, and the most well-mannered people on earth, Southern women and gay men. From how to avoid dating a serial killer to what to do at a snuggle part, How to Date provides single men and women, gay and straight, with a step-by-step road map for navigating today’s romantic quicksand with humor, grace, and aplomb.



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Summary: A MUST READ FOR ALL SINGLES AND MOTHERS!
Comment: I want to thank Diane for writing the book that reinforces what we should already know, mind your manners and clean up your act! This book is written in the most non judgemental way possible. It is not only informative and insightful but it is also clever and fun! My favorite line of course was the dedication line thanking her mother for never saying anything regarding Diane being single. As a dating coach, I tell all of my clients and their parents to stay out of the dating and not add to the pressure cooker. Congratulations Diane on a very good dating reminder book.

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Summary: Date This Book
Comment: It is immaculately refreshing to find what is presumably a 'dating' book to be both thoroughly researched and entirely free of the cliches and stereotypes that many contemporary writers would have engaged on the topic of the battle of the sexes.

In How to Date, there is absolutely none of that 'men are all sex-seeking slobs and women are all manipulative gold-diggers' paradigm. Mapes prose is light and funny but also sharp, clinical, even analytical at times. Her reporter's voice keeps its distance and is free of simplistic judgments. This is a book with real, from the trenches, dating stories. Gay, straight, old, young, no matter. Only people looking for love.

This author has clearly done her homework. How To Date has a timeless quality to it. There are loads of references to books on the topic from earlier times. The book feels like a classic, 20th Century study of social manners. The artwork and layout are what you would imagine Miss Lonelyhearts' column to have looked like.

But dating in our post-dating world is clearly a contemporary subject and Mapes fills the book with simple but fundamental advice. She lays out the basics of dating, the use of dating services and helps one navigate the frightful waters of Internet romance. But never taking it too seriously. This book has lots of jokes, the funniest ones in the How-To's, and the prose makes light of the subject to no end. This is a light read but only in the best sense of those words.

Now, why refer to How To Date as "presumably" a dating book? Because what we also have here is a fascinating anthropological resource that I'm sure future generations will use to hold us in the contempt and pity we deserve. The book includes dozens of first person dating stories by Mapes' many sources. Some of these are incredibly funny, others poignant, some horrific. But they are all telling of the age we live in. How we lead lives that are truly our own, which is good, but how desperately alone that can leave us.

You can read this book for advice. Read it to laugh at all those desperate singles out there or those jaded and afflicted by loves that went awry. That is, for the few among us who live in healthy, loving and lasting relationships.

But what about the rest? Bored to tears in their marriages and coasting or failing in their partnerships? In a few years, they may need this book.

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Summary: A must-read!!
Comment: Disclaimer right off: Diane Mapes is a dear friend. But she knows I'm a straight shooter, she knows I tell it like it is... I'm so glad I don't have to lie...

This book is so clever, so original, taking outdated advice from yesteryear and turning it on its ear. Funny anecdotes, sound suggestions -- before dating, bathe and get a hair cut for gosh sake's! -- fresh, page-turning prose. I would read this even if Diane wasn't a pal...


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