Dating Amy: 50 True Confessions of a Serial Dater
Monday, January 18th, 2010 at
10:13 am
Product DescriptionDESCRIPTION: Dating today can seem like Alice’s tumble down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. Whether starting out or starting again, women face the difficult task of sorting through the good (guy), the bad (boy), and the ugly (morning after) in their search for Mr. Right. Here to give hope to smart single women everywhere is Amy DeZellar, who bravely dedicated two years of her life to debunking common dating myths and documenting 50 of her dates. She’s gone wine-tas. . . More >>
Dating Amy: 50 True Confessions of a Serial Dater
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My daughter, who is 37 and in the process of divorcing her high-school -sweetheart spouse and starting to date, bought this book to learn something about dating, since the last time she dated someone other than her soon to be ex-hubby, was exactly 20 years ago.
I asked what she thought and she said, that she found “Dating Amy” not only boring after a while but also compleytely useless, since “she is not that kind of an over-age high maintenance airhead” that Amy is. This harsh opinion piqued my curiosity (yes, I know how to spell “pique” despite -or may be thanks to – the fact that English is my fourth language. . . but my syntax and sentence structure are often not English proper), so I read it, too. No, I would not brand Amy the way my daughter did, but this book made me very, very sad. Is that what we – and generations of suffragissts before me – fought for? Where’s the emancipation, equality? (And I do not buy any of Amy’s crap-of-an-excuse that men should always pay for women, because they earn more than women: by far not all men earn more than women – and nobody forced Amy to make multiple career choices with a high statistical probability of a low pay -that much we feminists have already achieved: she could have studied law or medicine, if she wanted to earn more than most American males).
How can an educated woman in her upper 30s, a woman who ran “Sufragette and the city” be so utterly unemancipated? and not in the least willing to consider EQUALITY of the sexes? Why would she want to be paid the same as men AND at the same time be treated like an object of desire (pardon, like the “cow, who needs to be bought in order to give milk”, as one of the most shockingly unemancipated expressions I learned in America goes), who sells the pleasure of her company to whoever will pay for it???? . . . and, much worse, appears to be proud of it?
Amy, as a heroin of the book seems mentally to be a girl-woman, badly in need of growing up and devoloping an ability to think, to reason, but since Amy the author got a book deal, I bet thanks mainly to her mental confusion than her writing skill (in so hated by you Bush America, woman as brainded phenomenon seems to be higly marketable), may be that’s what Amy really wanted professionally as well as personally: to sell herself out?
Rating: 1 / 5
I was originally drawn to this book because of my personal collection of blind date “horror” stories. I was in search of a kindred soul and I certainly found her in “Dating Amy”. Whether you are actively dating; on hiatus or you just like good gossip, you’ll love this book! Expect to learn something, though – the book is less about finding love than it is about finding oneself.
Rating: 5 / 5
Guys, my brothers, click on the one click icon right now and buy this book! Seriously, buy this book! Here’s why:
1) It’s funny, very funny, in some places ‘laugh out loud while eating in a Chinese restaurant’ funny’.
2) It’s well written and incisive.
3) It gives some great insights into what women think about when dating.
4) And most importantly it’s a manual for men of what *not* to do when dating. Some of the anecdotes that Amy (who, by the way is smokin’ hot) relates will make you laugh out loud while your teeth are on edge and you’re wondering if you’ve ever done behaved this way yourself.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve been married since the earth cooled, but I thoroughly enjoyed Amy’s wry wit and casual writing style. I love to eavesdrop on people’s conversations, and that’s what reading this book was like. I highly recommend it to anyone, not just singles!
Rating: 5 / 5
Forgive the bias fact that Amy and I were buddies in high school. . . this lady knows how to write! I admired her keen sense of humor and comic timing back in the disco era, and like fine wine, it has only improved. Amy’s candid honest and heartfelt commentaries are punchy and poignant. In our current sophisticated world of cybersex, she reminds the reader that dating is still an adventure, and no measure of late-night instant meassaging can account for the face-to-face encounter. Bravo, my friend!
Rating: 5 / 5