Product Description

INCLUDES

* How to spot bad boys and jerks before they break your heart
* The secret to getting a man to call you
* The 5 common mistakes women make that push men away
* The 10 signs you're about to be dumped
* How to be a woman he just can't live without

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180603 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05
• Released on: 2002-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Lisa Daily is based in Minneapolis, where she writes about love, relationships and dating. Her popular syndicated column appears on more than 50 dating and women's websites each month, seen and read by millions of people. She married her dream guy after he proposed to her in Paris. They have one son.

Customer Reviews

Smart Ideas + Sound Advice + Fun Read= A Great Book!
As a fellow relationship/self-help author I'm always curious what my colleagues are writing about in our unique genre of books. When I first saw this book I thought, "here's a book that the feminists are going to hate....a book about desperate women who have to have a man in order to feel happy and fulfilled."

But I was wrong.

Here's a book that rightfully (surprisingly based on the book title...but remember not to judge a book by its cover!) teaches enlightened women to take care of themselves, enjoy their relationships, and live the life they've imagined whether it's with a man or not. It's about feminine empowerment and there's nothing that is more feminist than that.

As a guy I realize that this book has a certain "girlfriend-to-girlfriend" tone and humor to it. But after all nearly 80% of all self-help books are purchased by women. This book is one that almost all women I'm sure will enjoy and find funny at times.

The core of this book is the concept of the "Dream Girl." Lisa Daily has made a major contribution in helping to redefine what a "Dream Girl" is not only for women, but for men as well. I guess she would say that it's about being a "kick-... chick" who's got it together and makes her life really happen in a lot of ways. And as a guy, I think she's right. More traditional guys like myself really want someone we respect, admire, adore, cherish, and value who is smart, sexy, funny, feminine, and in many ways, fearless.

I think women readers will find this book very inspirational in a modern "Sex and the City" kind of way. With the pointers in this book a women can have a fantastic job, spend a day each week helping out at a soup kitchen, have a sparkling clean apartment, have the right shoes for any occasion, and also attract the man of her dreams.

I'm happy to see that Lisa is teaching women to appreciate the "good guys" who do the traditional respectful things for those he loves and cherishes. We see eye-to-eye on most everything (although we say it in totally different voices and ways) and nowhere are we more aligned than the concept of intelligently separating the men from the boys.

For women in search of a great life as well as to attract a great guy as a husband for lifetime passion and intimacy, here's a truly enjoyable book that stands out in our relationship/self-help field. I give this book my highest rating with a big smile.

Or: Losers Guide to Manipulating Jerks
Haha, it's just amazing how women have made an industry out of the weird tricks that are necessary when dating lying, cheating jerks who use them and dump them. I'll tell you the real deal for free:

1 - Men are not into monogamy until they've sowed the oats. I don't care how cute that 25 year old boy is in his new car, he will do you and dump you, that's what we do at that age. If you just want to get laid, fine, otherwise find a grown up man.

2 - These books are self-perpetuating; acting like this will make a kind, decent, intelligent man run for his life, because we don't want to make it a game full of lies and manipulation. Don't return calls? Pretend total disinterest? A polite, respectful man will respond by writing you off as disinterested and will not want to harass you. Then guess what you're left with? The kind of guy you need to manipulate and lie to. Enjoy.

3 - Playing games with sex. Losing battle, ladies. If a man's truly in love with you you're just lowering something sacred to the level of currency; if he's not, he can certainly find someone easier to get what he wants from.

Take It from a Man-This Woman Knows Nothing
I as a man picked up this book because I wanted to know what kinds of tricks malicious women might throw at me, and finished it feeling sorry for any woman who might read it. Much of the advice given in here will backfire with today's man--at least with me. The author assumes men today are traditional, and they are not. In fact they are tired of women's games, and fully cognizant of the fact that the traditional role model she espouses is a raw deal for men. Part of her advice is sound--be somebody people can respect. But today's man knows that he cannot get a good woman unless SHE does part of the chasing and initiating herself. If she never, ever makes a first move then how on earth is he supposed to know she's interested in him and not just playing him for a fool? If you as a woman want to know what REALLY works, I'd suggest you go to askmen.com and check out what the men are saying--today's man is no longer interested in projecting his own interest level on a woman--he wants HARD EVIDENCE that you are really interested in him.