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 Worst book (out of the thousands) that I've ever read Jan 17, 2010
This book is truly terrible. I finished reading it because I wanted to see if it would ever redeem itself and because once I pay for a book I have trouble not reading it. The writing isn't even mediocre. There seems to be no real purpose to the book: it isn't a manual on how to use internet dating sites, or a shocking well-told real life story, or a learn from my mistakes as you go along my journey with me kind of book. If anything I'd say it reads like a disjointed report or set of journal entries of a very messed up person's encounter with a very pathetic needy con artist. Personally I don't like to read reports billed as novels. Also I like a story to flow and have a rhythm to it. This one does not. In the middle of the reporting about the author's and the con artist's relationship there are random asides about the author's frenetic internet dating habit. These tidbits aren't woven into the story in any sort of meaningful way. Also there appears to have been no editing done to the manuscript. There's the occasional sentence that doesn't make sense and the general poor organization to the story. By the end I couldn't stand the author: she contradicts herself numerous times and comes off as self-absorbed, disturbed, and almost as pathetic as the man she's taken it upon herself to expose to the world. It's really just atrocious on every level. I read virtually all types of fiction and nonfiction and can look past a mediocre writing style or flat storyline, etc if the book has other redeeming qualities. I mean not every book can be a masterpiece but this one should have never been published.
I hope you don't waste your money like I did.
 Oh OPRAH!!! Jul 25, 2009
The web the author weaves and is woven into is proof positive that life is stranger than fiction. Poignant and timeless, "new" i-love does not always find a way. What orchestrated harmony promises in the e-world, discordant reality delivers. A page turner and soon to be screen play. You won't be disappointed.
Must reading before considering internet dating Jul 17, 2009
Anthing done by Patricia Wood is extraordinary, and this book is no exception. It is MUST reading for anyone who is considering using internet dating sites.
Too strange for fiction Jul 09, 2009
Nothing in the first chapters of this book prepares you for the ones ahead. Just when you've assimilated one shocking revelation, there's another, and another ... until you can only wonder just how far down the bottom is. A read as unsettling and engrossing as the experience it chronicles. Of course it's a true story. Nobody could make this up.
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