Dating Game
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at
10:13 am
- ISBN13: 9780440240754
- Condition: NEW
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Product DescriptionIn her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game. Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twent. . . More >>
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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.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you’ve just dumped someone, been dumped, or are for some other reason back on the market, I highly recommend this book, which will help you get your mind off your own worries and see the whole “dating game” for the entertaining circus it really is. I also highly recommend a new little book I just read called “Meeting, Mating and Cheating,” a real-life account of people all over the world who have played the online dating game! It’s hilarious!
Rating: 5 / 5
I picked up this book for it’s comfort value since I was in the throes of a painful breakup. DS is good at tweaking emotions, so I thought I might get some solace from the story. I did. But it seemed the story was a series of seperately crafted scenes looking for a way to be strung together, and I could never get a feel for Paris’ progress once she’d started dating. And I wonder at lines like that on page 272: “It was a night Paris knew she would never forget, and that she would remember for the rest of her life”. There is a feeling of the book being cranked out by rote (does she have a template on her computer?), but isn’t that what I was hoping for? If you’re looking for a chocolate chip cookie fresh form the oven, buy this book.
Rating: 3 / 5
My grandmother and my mother have read Danielle Steele for years, but I must admit I’d never picked one up. I was always more for historical romances. But I wanted something different, had heard good things about her, so while at the library, decided to give her a try. I have to say I’m extremely disappointed. Granted, I’m a fellow writer (a very picky reader by nature), and an unpublished one to boot, but the writing could’ve been better in my opinion. The first five pages are all backstory of Paris’s marriage (no action, no excitement, told very “history lesson-ish”) and what could have been an extremely powerful scene between Paris and her husband (the inciting incident in the first chapter) left me wondering, “So what?”. Twenty five pages in, I could care less about these people. I honestly expected more from a bestselling author.
Rating: 2 / 5
Without giving away the plot, I found myself ready to scream at Paris. . . . GET A DOG!
Rating: 1 / 5