Product Description

There are close to one hundred million single adults living in the United States. Of those, approximately thirty-five million will look at online dating sites this year alone. Internet Dates from Hell provides the ins and outs of Internet dating from one woman’s experiences, ranging from funny to scary to downright shocking.

Internet Dates from Hell is not only a guide; it is also a seven-year journey through author Trisha Ventker’s dating life as a single kindergarten teacher who relocated from the suburbs to New York City to find her soul mate. Fielding over four hundred responses on a given day, and receiving more than fifty-two thousand hits on her personal ad in an eight-month span, Ventker shares her frightening but true dating encounters in the wonderful world of online dating.

Follow Ventker through the trials and tribulations of her quest to find “Mr. Right”. Along the path, Trisha Ventker endures hundreds of first dates. Encounters include a conspiracy theorist living in the United Kingdom, a religious fanatic from Texas, a sadomasochistic psychiatrist, and even a pre-op transsexual, to name a few. Ventker’s brutally honest memoir lets you step inside her shoes and experience her exciting journey firsthand.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #992310 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-29
• Released on: 2006-08-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

About the Author
Trisha Ventker is an elementary school teacher and a photographic artist. She holds a master’s degree in education from Adelphi University. She grew up on Long Island, New York, and now resides in an apartment in New York City with her husband, Tom.

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Customer Reviews

Some peculiar dates indeed
The stories are offbeat dates from the author's own experience. It's not as downright strange or funny as "Dates from Hell" in which the disaster dates were from numerous people. However, it's worth a read.

I totally enjoyed reading this book.
This book is a fun, light hearted read about the trials of on-line dating, a subject that much of the single world can relate to. I had many laugh out loud moments and loved the author's descriptions of the men she met and the environments she encountered on her adventurous dates. The author often had vibes, bells and sometimes whistles (her intuition) that indicated something about her date(s) was off. Sometimes she listened and sometimes she did not. It reminded me of my own need to trust my intuition that is so often a better judge of character than my heart and head which tends to rationalize, minimize, intellectualize, etc. I liked how the author wrote about a human experience, finding a life partner, with the ability to see the humor and, at times, the absurdity, of this experience, which is an earnest and often daunting pursuit for many people.

Sympathetic Reader
As a married woman, I found "Internet Dates From Hell" extremely entertaining. Having met my husband while driving on a main road in my town, I can relate to outrageous experiences in dating. When first reading the book, I was laughing out loud lying next to my husband in bed. He was so intrigued by my laughter, he asked me to read the rest out loud. After literally crying with laughter by the end of the book, I realized that these were real stories and experiences told by a real woman. Although I sympathized with the outragious places that her dating journey took her, I was thrilled with the outcome. This book is a must read for anyone who enjoys comedy, tragedy, romance and suspensful entertainment. Internet daters, hopeful singles and married people alike will enjoy this literary masterpiece. A great buy for the holidays. I bought three...so far.