How to Date in a Post-Dating World

By Diane Mapes

Taking up where Emily Post and Miss Manners left off, Diane Mapes counsels the dating-distressed on today s new rules of courtship. This smart, savvy etiquette guide addresses both nuts-and-bolts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570614709
• ISBN13: 9781570614705
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.7" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Very fun to read for a dating book & good content

This is definitely one of the better dating books I've read. I found this book to be encouraging - it really enforced my belief that both men and women are very lonely and that not very many people actually enjoy being single. That most of us are trying to find someone we think we deserve who we can be with long term, in order to feel loved and less lonely. And that dating is the only way you can do that, so you might as well go into it with a positive attitude that you will enjoy dating and try to make it as enjoyable for the people you date as well. That's the main thing I took home from this book, but there is a lot more. It was also a fast, enjoyable read because it was written with a great sense of humor.

A romantic etiquette guide for modern times

How can singles date? Diane Mapes maintains most people don't know how to date anymore - and while there are plenty of books telling how to snare a wonderful man or woman, few teach now to be fair and attractive to others. Single readers will here find a romantic etiquette guide for modern times, designed as a portable tote and field guide and providing advice gleaned from the author's interviews with singles across the country: singles who hate dating! Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Sound advice with a humorous touch

This book was fun and full of good common sense--wise suggestions with a deft, intelligent, humorous touch. Lots of information, too, that I found very interesting, about the history of dating--and the latest trends (silent dating, speed dating, etc.). I like the fact that the advice in the book can be utilized by anyone who wants to date--that it's not gender specific, or specific to sexual preference. An enjoyable read, with advice that really could make a difference in a person's dating life, if read carefully and taken to heart!

A great, new book all about dating

This a wonderful, realistic book about dating. The quotes and dating stories from real people can make you feel discouraged but more than that, they make you realize that all single people are going through the same thing. It's refereshing to not read a sugar coated version of things and also nice to read a dating book that doesn't make you feel guilty for being single. This is a great guide to dating with a wealth of information for singles. Diane Mapes is a smart and witty writer who is very skilled at writing about the ups and downs of single life. Go out and buy it now!

Date This Book

It is immaculately refreshing to find what is presumably a 'dating' book to be both thoroughly researched and entirely free of the cliches and stereotypes that many contemporary writers would have engaged on the topic of the battle of the sexes. In How to Date, there is absolutely none of that 'men are all sex-seeking slobs and women are all manipulative gold-diggers' paradigm. Mapes prose is light and funny but also sharp, clinical, even analytical at times. Her reporter's voice keeps its distance and is free of simplistic judgments. This is a book with real, from the trenches, dating stories. Gay, straight, old, young, no matter. Only people looking for love. This author has clearly done her homework. How To Date has a timeless quality to it. There are loads of references to books on the topic from earlier times. The book feels like a classic, 20th Century study of social manners. The artwork and layout are what you would imagine Miss Lonelyhearts' column to have looked like. But dating in our post-dating world is clearly a contemporary subject and Mapes fills the book with simple but fundamental advice. She lays out the basics of dating, the use of dating services and helps one navigate the frightful waters of Internet romance. But never taking it too seriously. This book has lots of jokes, the funniest ones in the How-To's, and the prose makes light of the subject to no end. This is a light read but only in the best sense of those words. Now, why refer to How To Date as "presumably" a dating book? Because what we also have here is a fascinating anthropological resource that I'm sure future generations will use to hold us in the contempt and pity we deserve. The book includes dozens of first person dating stories by Mapes' many sources. Some of these are incredibly funny, others poignant, some horrific. But they are all telling of the age we live in. How we lead lives that are truly our own, which is good, but how desperately alone that can leave us. You can read this book for advice. Read it to laugh at all those desperate singles out there or those jaded and afflicted by loves that went awry. That is, for the few among us who live in healthy, loving and lasting relationships. But what about the rest? Bored to tears in their marriages and coasting or failing in their partnerships? In a few years, they may need this book.