This pains me to do this, since I can usually find at least one golden moment within every book that I come across, but this one, the MENu Dating, is rubbish.
Well, in a sense it completely reassured me as a writer. If this book got published, then all I have to do is take a long vacation, write something, and choose any literary agent.
Let’s start with the expression ”MENu Dating”. Yeah, I get it. It’s a play on words. But when the expression is planted once or even twice on every page, it loses it’s initial cleverness. And I am not a fan of the caps, the word already calls enough attention to itself by popping up in every other sentence.
Forgive me. I’m a tad irritated. ”MENu Dating,” is advising women to “gorge” on men. The mantra, “I do not want a boyfriend,” is actually introduced here.
From my personal experiences with dating multiple persons during the same time period, (Dating, not sleeping with them.) I have learned the hard way that this was not the best idea, nor was I doing nice deeds to others. It’s impossible to take any one person seriously when your attentions are being stretched in opposing directions.
Do I believe in shopping around? Yes. Do I think you can date more than one person at a time? Not so much. Um there’s a reason why we put on one shoe after the other.
Now, that I am calming down, Tristan Coopersmith and Todd Johnson did make two reasonable points: High heels equal power. And, “It doesn’t matter if you look like Angelina Jolie; if your breath smells like a Chihuahua, you will undoubtedly strike out.” We will get to the heels in another post. The breath statement does make perfect sense. But these were things I already knew.
For the most part MENu Dating delivers recycled advice in a humorous way. There isn’t anything profound going on here. O and I do have a problem with this statement:
When trying to get over a co-worker: ” Tell the girls at work that he overcompensates for his lack of skills in the bedroom by being a beast in the boardroom.” This may be funny, but it’s a tad unsettling since this advice is in a self-help-esque book. I thought creating nasty rumors was a bad thing?
MENu Dating, I’m not impressed.
