Book review: Crap Dates

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+title = "Crap Dates - Rhodri Marsden"
+date = 2021-03-19
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+tags = ["books", "reviews", "twitter", "dates"]
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18152436-crap-dates):
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+A good date can be exhilarating: a shared joke, an improbable spark, long
+moments of gazing fondly into each other's eyes. Not so for the dating disasters
+featured in this collection of laugh-out-loud actual tweets about the most
+terrible evenings imaginable. From seriously unwelcome confessions, to dousing
+dates in wine, to bringing them back to creepy apartments to meet favorite
+stuffed animals, here are the funniest and most alarming reports from dating's
+front lines. Along the way, author Rhodri Marsden offers tips on how to identify
+and avoid the worst of the bad daters, including married men, blatant liars,
+deluded optimists, and more. This harrowing collection of real nightmare dates
+will amuse anyone who's suffered through one of cupid's off nights.
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+Ok, so not much as "offer tips", but mostly "these are things that people
+replied to me when I complained about a bad date".
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+Not that the topic doesn't have a merit -- I mean, who doesn't want to know that
+they weren't the only ones in a bad date -- but it felt like there was some
+lacking of research. And I don't mean field research, but actually talking to
+people instead of capturing their tweets and putting them in book form.
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+For example, you have this:
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+> A 23 yr old girl. “I think for my age I’ve achieved a hell of a lot.” she
+> said. Then talked for three hours about her internet business.
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+Sure, that's a huge presumptuous comment to make in a first date, but "yr"?
+Couldn't we edit this so at least it looks correct? Couldn't we do a research on
+how the date went, how they met, how they picked a place and so on? Just the
+tweet, then?
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+I mean, sure, the tweets tell a lot about how bad things went, but at least more
+details would be nicer, specially when you go to a book format.