Love Advice for Women

By Nathaniel Jackson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966872509
• ISBN13: 9780966872507
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Advice Zone
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Eavesdropping on Love

Nat Jackson speaks for everyman --and woman --who wrestles with the joys and foibles of falling in and out of love and yearns for something more enduring --a "mature love," a lifelong friend, lover, companion. Inspired by his own experiences which he shares in an unpretentious style (so refreshing in this era of Mars-Venus-Godess "experts" on the human heart) Jackson is wise enough to turn to the real love gurus for advice on the dance between the sexes. Throughout, he includes illuminating nuggets of wisdom from thinkers and writers such as Chaucer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Plato, and Blake and gifted women like Jane Austen, Dorothy Parker, Virginia Woolf, Betty Friedan and Edith Wharton. These sages touch on everything from "Dating Advice for Women" to "Keeping the Love Alive." Love isn't stripped of its mysteries rather, like a fine wine, it's contemplated, celebrated, and savored for its paradoxes. (Check out page 115: "We need, when we love, really only this: to let each other go; for holding on is easy and does not have to be learned." Rainer Marie Rilke.) Along with this wisdom there is Fun! The fun is that the reader gets to eavesdrop on centuries of conversations. Some women may protest a man entering this circle and sharing love advice for women, but Jackson freely admits that his views are subjective, not the final say, and does so without Hubris. I like this "Annie Hall" approach. As a reader I get to eavesdrop on love, on what appeals, from a man's perspective, and then I get to listen in on the sage women quoted throughout. It's a lively conversation. ###

You Can Judge a Book by its Cover

Love Advice for Women is a truly exquisite book, both inside and out. The cover design is striking, and what's inside is just as impressive. I bought the book for myself because I'm a classic literature buff, but I plan to give some as gifts to my friends who moan and groan about their love lives. I highly recommend this book as a gift because it's very attractive and also an interesting concept. The author seems to have done extensive research to come up with so many quotes about love, and even though it's not supposed to be a heavy-duty advice book, the quotes and commentary are surprisingly on target for giving one fresh ways of looking at dating and relationships. So, I enjoyed it not only from the literary sense but found it practical as well.