From 4ed7ea8925eb92e08e449b448ce8eac36767caad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:21:44 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Book review: Crap Dates --- content/reviews/books/crap-dates.md | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/books/crap-dates.md diff --git a/content/reviews/books/crap-dates.md b/content/reviews/books/crap-dates.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25652f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/crap-dates.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ ++++ +title = "Crap Dates - Rhodri Marsden" +date = 2021-03-19 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "twitter", "dates"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18152436-crap-dates): + +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. + + + +{{ stars(stars=2) }} + +Ok, so not much as "offer tips", but mostly "these are things that people +replied to me when I complained about a bad date". + +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. + +For example, you have this: + +> 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. + +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? + +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.