Product Description

Tired of looking for Mr Right when all she wanted was casual fun, Dawn Porter placed an ad online to see what handsome, wealthy and charming men would respond to her request for surprising nights out and possibly more. Nine months later and the results make for jaw-dropping reading. A cast of characters you couldn't invent do their best to impress Ms Porter with their wit, wisdom and physical attributes. With nicknames like the 'very clever wolf' and the 'big bumbino', these would-be suitors' antics read like a modern comedy of sexual manners. Not content with looking for lust with cute guys, Ms Porter explores her 'bi-curious' side and builds up to a liaison with a couple. With a taste for fancy restaurants, fine wines and men who make her laugh, Dawn's dates are a bang-up-to-the minute look at modern dating from a clued-up young woman with her eyes on the prize. The question is, will she actually fall for any of her dates?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126257 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Company Magazine
Candid and often sexually explicit, this book will have you hooked.

Scarlet
Well written, dirty and amusing.

From the Author
I had to write this book. I was having so much fun that all I wanted to do was tell everyone about it. A book was the easiest way. Sure, it's been tough for close friends and family to read about me being all saucy but no one, not even my dad, has been able to deny that if they could...they would! My response to that is that they can. There is no reason why anyone can't open up the sorts of social opportunities that I did. But please, and I must say this, don't feel like you have to push as many boundaries as I have. I am happy to do the nuts stuff and take the risks you just go and enjoy yourselves! I really hope you enjoy my book, to me it is everything that I ever hoped it would be and I wouldn’t change a moment of it. I experienced some amazing things, I hope by reading about them you can to. Eeeeek!

Customer Reviews

Ultimately disppointing
Having tried internet dating myself and recently read `Millions of Women Are Waiting to Meet You' by Sean Thomas, I thought it would be interesting to read about the topic from a woman's perspective. However, Ms Porter's remit (getting some no strings sex) is slightly different from that of Mr Thomas (essentially looking for love) and so direct comparisons can't really be made.

It's certainly a good premise for a book and all power to Ms Porter for coming up with the idea, going on the dates and actually writing it. Unfortunately, I don't feel that these elements are enough to lift the content above anything other than a very average read.

First of all, there are the emails which set up the dates. If they were examples of witty banter I wouldn't have minded but all too often they were perfunctory exchanges which went on for far too long and repeated almost verbatim previous emails. "Hey, you sound nice." "Thanks, so do you. Have you got a pic?" "Here's my pic. How about you?" "Wow, you're gorgeous. Fancy lunch?" Then, there are the spelling errors. How many times can you misspell `lose' as `loose'? A lot, apparently. Even if the author is trying to recreate realism this is just shoddy writing - especially when it's her own emails!

Now, this may be because I'm a man but I don't understand the fascination with listing endlessly what was eaten for dinner on the dates. I realise there are times when the food is the most interesting part of a date but unless it has some direct relevance to events, it just serves as padding. Maybe it was just a chance to show off the `fab' restaurants she'd been taken to. I also fail to understand the gusto with which she relates just how much she eats. What sort of point is she trying to make? I appreciate a girl having a healthy appetite but reading her average meal intake began to make me feel slightly unwell.

Having finished the book, I was left feeling far less satisfied (and not nearly as titillated) than I'd hoped. I tend to feel there's something wrong when the author is having way more fun than the reader. Overall, it just wasn't sufficiently amusing or well written. Perhaps Voltaire best summed it up when he said `The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.'

An online dating classic....
Read this in about 4 hours - I must say it's a page turner.

"Diaries" is a contemporary memoir of our times. The perils of online dating and what comes after makes each chapter a story in itself. Putting herself to the online dating game may seem the stuff of today's reality shows, but this is a much more realistic, heartfelt and personable account.

The book is a no bs, candid, sexy book that gallops along at a merry pace. Dawn's been compared to Bridget Jones for keeping her diary - but as they say, this is decidedly more explicit. Those expecting a PG book...be warned! Dawn's more like that ol' Penthouse scribe Xaviera Hollander - but with a lot more charm and less sex.

Truth is stranger and often funnier than fiction. Dawn has a good eye for social situations. She's frank, straight up and writes about the male world as only a woman could. Rather than being a serial dater with no aim, Dawn has a deep appreciation and curiousity for the people she meets. Her brit wit and honesty come through - warts and all.

I'd like to see where she charges on from here!

Brilliant!
This is an excellent read, I couldn't put it down and it had me sniggering all the way home on the tube! Yes there are other similar books out there but this one does more than that. It feels very honest, a true account of what internet dating might be like if you go for it like Dawn! Reading it felt like a good girlfriend telling you girlie secrets over one too many wines!
Overall brilliant fun - very much looking forward to a sequel!