A Long Way to Go for a Date

by Henry Makow

In the Philippines, Henry Makow, 48, discovered a tropical paradise where women are still traditional and the husband is the head of the household. A LONG WAY TO GO FOR A DATE is Makow's candid and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0968772501
• ISBN13: 9780968772508
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Silas Green
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Been There, Done That

This is a great study in human nature and a the authors reach exceeding his grasp. The author tried to be both father and husband to an 18 year old woman/child when either task is nearly impossible alone. I married a woman 20 years my junior (with a 5 year old child) and made many of the same blunders he did. The idea that dragging an 18 year old from the tropics halfway around the world to Winnipeg (Eskimos will not live there) was also a stoke of stupidity. Cut off from everything she had ever known was it a surprise that she rebelled (that is what 18 year olds do, is it not)?? Read the book to get the full details but keep an eye out for the "sins of ommission" that I am sure the author made. Finally as any 18 year old boy will tell you if you want a girl that age to like you you have to pretend you could care less. Men grow up at age 35 and women at age 30. I could feel the authors pain, but the young lady in the book would have another story to tell had she the chance to tell her experience. The old addage that when you marry a child bride "you can raise them like you want them" is partially true but most 18 year olds have all the bad habits they will ever have already started. Being both father and husband is a task of Herculean proportions.

Feedback from an avid reader!

The information that I have received from this book is eye-opening indeed! It is more of a "Not to do" than a "To do" book. He hit the target of what was and continues to plague western civilization during the past 3 decades. I am already married to a Filipina myself and hope not to make the same mistakes that he made! I even bought her a copy as well. ITS A GREAT WORK INDEED!!!

Refreshing!!!

Funny, honest, courageous, and utterly refreshing! If you are tired of politically correct love stories that cater to the feminist ego, this book is for you. This man is not afraid of telling it as it is. He's not afraid of saying "What a fool I was! But I'll keep trying". If a woman marries a much younger man from another culture, most women will say "How assertive! You go grrrl!", but if a man does it... "How abusive! How chauvinist!" I'm so tired of patronizing feminist double standards... He wasn't a predator, and she wasn't a poor abused victim. People are deeper than that, and the book reflects such complexities. You get to read about two people with different agendas, different needs, and different cultures that in a better world wouldn't have needed each other in the first place.This is a page-turner!

This is my story too. But I wasn't so lucky.

This book is highly accurate. Henry's adventure started in 1997. My adventure started in 1988. His story is my story. I was not so lucky as Henry. My violent wife contrived with her new boyfriend to send me to prison for three years, simply for her to get unconditional residency in the US in the face of her adultery. In 1990 the US changed their laws so immigrant females need only claim "abuse" and they get in free. I hope others who had this misfortune will contact me. A great injustice is happening, but no one hears about it. Just search on my name.

True story of Filipina Courtship by a NothAmerican gentleman

Henry's book describes in great detail his own relationship with a Filipina named Cecilia on the island of Mindanao. Having met her through a Canadian pen-pal club, simular to my FilipinaCupid site, Henry embarked upon a journey which many of you may soon experience yourself.A journey that starts with a few letters exchanged across the Pacific, which in turn leads to a flight to the Philippines to meet a pen-pal and her family, and then blossoms into love & marriage. He also reveals much intimate moments from overcoming Filipina shyness, to dealing with Filipino fathers & family members, to first intimacy, to their misunderstandings, exciting marriage, and even reveals details of what is sometimes a challenging "settling in" period of adjustment when wife is finally in his country. Henry does much wrong in his courtship and these are important lessons to know. The book makes you aware of possible hidden agendas and how a woman can be manipulated by family. Also, you see how laws and emotional problems can undermine to be efforts. [...] Before you go to ANY Asian country seeking romance you should read this valuable, unique, and well written book.Blessings on "your" search for true love. Jean