Product Description

Any girl who has seen Pride and Prejudice or read the Jane Austen novel knows that the much misunderstood Mr. Darcy is the ideal gentleman. But is it possible to find your own Mr. Darcy in today's world of geeks and goons? With smart tips, spiritual insights, and discussions of Jane Austen's popular stories and movies, best-selling author Sarah Arthur equips young women to gauge a guy's Darcy Potential (DP) according to his relationships with family, friends, and God.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413596 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Do you love Pride and Prejudice?

Still holding out hope that there’s a Mr. Darcy in your future?

Crazy enough to believe that you can change a Mr. Wickham into a Mr. Darcy?

Any girl who has seen Pride and Prejudice knows that the much misunderstood Mr. Darcy is the ideal gentleman. Is it possible to find your own Mr. Darcy in today’s world?

With spiritual insights along with smart tips, best-selling author Sarah Arthur helps you figure out a guy’s Darcy Potential (DP) and refine your Creep Detection System (CDS).

Smart girls still believe in love.

About the Author
is the best-selling author of 'Walking with Frodo', among other books. A former youth director, she now writes and speaks to the postmodern generation about the adventure of faith--when she isn't tucked away with a good book. She's a member of the Mythopoeic Society and serves on the board of the C.S. Lewis Festival held annually in northern Michigan. Sarah lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, Tom--who lovingly built her website [www.saraharthur.com].

Customer Reviews

Dating Mr. Darcy: Captain Obvious
This was a really great book. The author had a lot to say, but I must say that it was a bit close-minded. She also repeated many obvious things that I already knew about, so... Really, half the book was a waste of money.
She did, though, make a very good parallel of Pride and Prejudice and the way you should date a man.
This book should be for Jr. Highers, not High School girls like me.

Dating Mr. Darcy is a Christian Book
I think that anyone reading these reviews shouldn't be set off by some of the lower ratings. It's understandable if you don't like her writing style, but not liking the book because it talks about faith is just silly. She wrote it to be a dating guide for christian teenage girls. That is her target audience (though others can still get something from it), and the idea that the way she presents it is silly and childish, is just ridiculous.

Couldn't get through it
My mom gave me this book and asked me to read it and give her my opinion of it. Next time I spoke to her I had to tell her, "I'm sorry, I just couldn't get through it." I slogged through the first chapter, but I grew increasingly fed up with Arthur's vapid writing style (to me, the book reads like the diary of a thirteen-year-old girl, and not a particularly clever thirteen-year-old girl at that). I also couldn't stomach her constant use of the editorial "we" in a decidedly non-scholarly work. She constantly talks about how "we feel" or what "we think" about Austen's characters, attempting to stamp me, the reader, with her own attitudes and beliefs in a way I found insulting. I wanted to shout, "Don't tell me what I think! Talk about what *you* think, if you think anyone cares, but don't insist that I follow sheeplike in your path and subordinate my own ideas to yours!" The final straw was her moralistic attitude. While it's only natural for the author's religious beliefs to inform her attitudes toward dating and relationships, I found her constant references to God and faith and moral character and God's plan for humanity to be oppressive. I might have been able to tolerate either the giggly schoolgirl style or the sententious moralism by itself, but the combination defeated me. If you're looking for a book that analyzes romantic relationships in the light of Jane Austen's novels, try _Jane Austen's Guide to Dating_ instead; it's not perfect by any means, but it's a much more enjoyable read than this one.