From the nation that gave us Victorian virtues, here is another irresistible collection of brilliant, bawdy and often absurd personal ads from the ...
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Mar 22, 2010
Elizabeth
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This book is a reality show for people who read. The contestants are real. They say horribly embarrassing things in public. There are fights and quiet digs at their competition. And the host gets to make pithy comments (in footnotes!) at the contestants' expense. Meanwhile, you get to sit at home and feel smug for never having entered. Look at those losers! I would never do that. Some of them really are train wrecks and some of them are cry-with-laughter funny:
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Sep 20, 2010
Anna
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Collected personal ads from the London Review of Books. Made me laugh a lot but also made me very glad that I am not out there looking for love.
"I am not as high maintenance as my highly polished and impeccably arranged collection of porcelain cats suggests, but if you touch them I will kill you. F, 36. Likes porcelain cats. Seeks man not unused to the sound of sobbing coming from a bedroom door from which he is strictly prohibited. Tell me how attractive I am at box no. 1123." More...
"I am not as high maintenance as my highly polished and impeccably arranged collection of porcelain cats suggests, but if you touch them I will kill you. F, 36. Likes porcelain cats. Seeks man not unused to the sound of sobbing coming from a bedroom door from which he is strictly prohibited. Tell me how attractive I am at box no. 1123." More...
Nov 26, 2011
Jennifer
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The London Review of Books: Guaranteeing I don't have to come up with my own pithy "About Me" statements for the last four years. This follow-up to 2006's "They Call Me Naughty Lola" lacks the shockingly original punch of the first volume, but manages to keep the parade of crazy going strong...and leaves you pondering the terrifying possibility that most of these ads aren't, in fact, intended to be tongue-in-cheek.
Sep 10, 2010
Valerie
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Impossible to put down. I could easily be at least three of these people....
Sample: "Ball-breaking, irrational F (52). Very probably just like your mother...."
It helps to be English, but there are useful footnotes.
Sample: "Ball-breaking, irrational F (52). Very probably just like your mother...."
It helps to be English, but there are useful footnotes.
Jan 29, 2012
Gemma
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Very funny, can't believe some of these are real! Nice bit of light reading and the kind of book you can pick up anytime and still find funny!
Jan 24, 2011
Christiana
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Dudes, there are some crazies out there. And they want to be in love. I don't know how I feel about that.
Jan 29, 2010
Reviewed on EW.com. This looks to be hilarious and along the same lines as "Milk, Eggs, Vodka"
May 29, 2011
Lynda
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Funny!! This book had some serious laugh out loud moments -- which must have been annoying to Joe as I constantly interrupted his reading to tell him the ones that struck me as particularly funny. We had read They Call Me Naughty Lola so I knew what to expect and wasn't disappointed.
Aug 19, 2011
Melissainau
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Ads range from the kooky
my advert comes in the form of interpretive dance. Man, 62
I've kissed too many frogs in search of my prince. Woman,32. Retired from amphibian zoology very much against her will.
To the just plain weird. But the end effect is funny, although this is not a read in one night proposition.
my advert comes in the form of interpretive dance. Man, 62
I've kissed too many frogs in search of my prince. Woman,32. Retired from amphibian zoology very much against her will.
To the just plain weird. But the end effect is funny, although this is not a read in one night proposition.
Dec 06, 2010
Susan
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Came across a review in wall street journal and this sounds awesome. British understatement meets romance. Sample: "Think of every sexual partner you've ever had. I'm nothing like them. Unless you've ever slept with a bulimic German cellist named Elsa. Elsa: bulimic German cellist (F, 37)."
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