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title = "Crap Dates - Rhodri Marsden" |
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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 |
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moments of gazing fondly into each other's eyes. Not so for the dating disasters |
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featured in this collection of laugh-out-loud actual tweets about the most |
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terrible evenings imaginable. From seriously unwelcome confessions, to dousing |
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dates in wine, to bringing them back to creepy apartments to meet favorite |
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stuffed animals, here are the funniest and most alarming reports from dating's |
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front lines. Along the way, author Rhodri Marsden offers tips on how to identify |
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and avoid the worst of the bad daters, including married men, blatant liars, |
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deluded optimists, and more. This harrowing collection of real nightmare dates |
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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 |
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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 |
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they weren't the only ones in a bad date -- but it felt like there was some |
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lacking of research. And I don't mean field research, but actually talking to |
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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 |
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> 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"? |
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Couldn't we edit this so at least it looks correct? Couldn't we do a research on |
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how the date went, how they met, how they picked a place and so on? Just the |
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tweet, then? |
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I mean, sure, the tweets tell a lot about how bad things went, but at least more |
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details would be nicer, specially when you go to a book format. |
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