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Loading... The Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sexby Suzanne Schlosberg
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  cmbolton | Sep 22, 2007 |  I asked for this book for christmas thinking it would be a funny and maybe slightly inspiring account of the authors story. Instead I read about a woman who seemed to have commitment issues(I have never had a three year relationship where I haven't yet said I love you. I think most people without issues haven't.), who seemed to be very picky, and who overall just seemed a little sad. Also, the "epiphany" she has at the end of the book is not uplifting in any way, or even funny. It is just depressing. I would stay away from this book if you are in the mood to laugh. (  ) miraria | Feb 15, 2007 | Very very funny! I laughed at almost every page. (  ) coolcat | May 4, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446690546, Paperback)For fans of HBO's Sex and the City-or anyone who's been on a bad blind date-comes this hysterical look at life in the single lane. She refers to it as 'the streak': 1001 days without sex-79 days shorter than the Kennedy administration-which promp-ted Suzanne Schlosberg's friends to dub her the Cal Ripken of celibacy. Given the common belief among single women that all the good men are either married or gay, Suzanne's predicament is hardly extraordinary, but what she does to end the streak makes for a hilarious tale. Suzanne hits bottom when her younger sister gets engaged, leaving her less than a year to find a date for the wedding. She shifts into overdrive, experimenting with Internet dating, speed dating, and other bizarre 21st century matchmaking rituals. But after enduring every indignity of singlehood-attending the endless parade of other people's weddings, paying for birth control that goes to no use, and fielding questions from unrelenting family members about potential prospects-she ultimately learns to ask herself: Does she really need a man to find happiness?(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Suzanne Schlosberg never comes right out and says why she went over 1,000 days without sex. Was it because she was too picky? Was it because she just didn't miss sex enough to seek it out? The reader is left to wonder about this and other issues that Schlosberg raises and then never adequately addresses in this memoir.
After I finished the book, I started thinking that she kept the Streak alive just to see how long she could keep it going. And who is actually proud of something like the 1,000+ days long Streak, anyway?
This memoir is good enough that I wasn't bored reading it, but I wish it had a little more substance. (