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Sto caricando le informazioni... Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personalsdi Jack Murnighan, Maura Kelly
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book was okay. They read a lot of the classics to write this book, which is impressive to me, but it seemed a little empty. ( ) Written by two authors that take turns discussing dating and relationships through novels such as The Bell Jar, Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Anna Karenina, etc. While reading the book it gave me a desire to read the books they mentioned that I haven't yet read. What I didn't like about the book was the snide political comments of the female author that irked me, but the final straw was the one about the right to kill babies that ruined the book for me. The book would have been so much better if she'd kept her parenthesized opinion out of the book. Is there anything that great literature can't do? According to Maura Kelly and Jack Murnighan* it can teach us some very important lessons about love. I tend to agree. Kelly and Murnighan take turns writing the chapters and telling us about their hits and misses in the dating world. They share the triumphs and the failures. All along they tie their romantic adventures to the stories and lessons in classic literature. The chapter names made me chuckle and inspired me to keep reading: Love in the Time of Online Dating Why Too Much Emailing Can Be Dangerous Overly Great Expectations Why Idealizing Someone Can Come Back to Bite You The Brief Wondrous Life of My Last Relationship Are Men Genetically Coded to Cheat? I'm quite fond of books about books and this one was a delight to read. *Why aren't these two dating? I wondered that throughout the whole book! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"A treat for any book lover, happily mated or cheerfully single" (USA TODAY)--two popular journalists give hilarious relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature. Finding love should be easier than ever before, given all the freedoms we enjoy. But as it turns out, the more options we have, the more difficult attaining romantic bliss becomes. We wonder: Should we put all our energy into online dating, or hang out in bars to find someone new? Should we settle for a friendship-with-benefits, or refuse to stop looking until we happen upon true love? And if we do manage to achieve the impossible and find a perfect match--soul mate, sexual dynamo, and best buddy all in one--how can we beat the relationship doldrums when they come, as they're bound to in this hyperactive society? In our quest to reach romantic nirvana, we turn to self-help manuals, magazines, talk shows, friends, relatives, and shrinks. But we've overlooked the true font of wisdom: the timeless stories written by great novelists. That's where Much Ado About Loving comes in. In its pages, two book lovers who are also advice columnists--Maura Kelly and Jack Murnighan--relay the lessons in life and love that they've learned from reading more classic novels than your English teacher, while having far more romantic conundrums than all of Jane Austen's characters combined. They've done the heavy reading--and the recovering from heartbreak--for you. Now all you need is this book. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)306.73Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Culturally Typical Patterns of Sexual Relationships and BehaviorClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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