All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates [Paperback]

Elizabeth Fournier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2008

Elizabeth chronicles her true life dating spree as a marriage-minded mortician in her mid-30's. Set off by her broken engagement, she enlists everyone in sight to set her up on blind dates in a passionate quest to meet just one really great guy. Armed with a 10-point list of dating criteria, skintight jeans, and flash cards on Nascar, football, and micro-breweries, she spends one full year doing the blind meet and greet. Names are changed to protect the rejected as she humorously dishes dot-com hotties, compulsive bloggers, and tattooed graduates of the Gene Simmons School of Dating. Bridget Jones would be proud of her American cousin.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Elizabeth Fournier's 77 stories, at once cautionary and joyous, will serve as a highly entertaining road map for anyone setting out on that potholed highway known as dating. She made me laugh derisevely, made me sigh in empathy, and most of all, made me remember why I stay married. --Michele Gendelman, author of What the Other Mothers Know

If you think that being beautiful and smart is a free pass to love and happiness, Elizabeth Fournier's memoir of a slog through the underbelly of American manhood is what you need. Funny, wistful and sharply observed. A must-read for men who want to do better socially. --Ed Goldberg, author of Dead Air

Fournier's recounting of a true-life spree of blind-dating will attract the young and not-as-young female readers who enjoyed Maria Dahvana Headley's THE YEAR OF YES. This is light-hearted and at times light-headed stuff, a revealing depiction of the mating game as it's played in this new millennium. --Harold C. Morris, author of Offering for an Eclipse

About the Author

Elizabeth Fournier is a writer, ballroom dance instructor, casino spokesmodel, wife, mother, and a small-town mortician who lives in Boring, Oregon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595533000
• ISBN-13: 978-0595533008
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eyes Wide Shut, December 15, 2008

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Cate Garrison "author, OF MUTTS AND MEN, MIRA... (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates (Paperback)

Elizabeth Fournier is a motorcycling, ball-room dancing, beer drinking mortician who decides to go on 77 blind dates; if that isn't a formula for success, I don't know what is. And, believe me, this page-turning, hilarious yet thought-provoking book lives up to the promises of its premises. Elizabeth's imagery is alive and glorious; her dialog pops off the page; the pictures she creates shout aloud with color. In particular, the thumbnail sketches of the guys she dates are telling and resonant. We recognize these jerks; nay, we have dated them, if not blindly, then certainly (in my case) with our eyes closed. And her central character (herself) is beautifully drawn, quirky, half-vulnerable, half-brimming with confidence, at all times both totally empathetic and yet refreshingly unexpected. Buy this book for your girlfriends (and boyfriends) for Christmas, and they will forever be grateful.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dating Extravaganza, January 31, 2009

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Rochella T. Farnand (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates (Paperback)

All Men Are Cremated Equal is as quirky and unique as its title evokes. It is the tireless journey of a thirty something woman determined to find love on the dating circuit with some strict rules and standards.
I read it as a newly single woman in my thirties, ok just turned forty, and it was fun to see what someone else went through to find the right man. The variety and comical encounters made me laugh out loud. The spunk, intelligence, and beauty of the author came out readily. That this is a true story, made it all the better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates, January 17, 2009

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J. Young (Las Vegas NV) - See all my reviews
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Elizabeth Fournier takes us through a journey of the peaks and valleys of dating. With her hilarious and detailed way of protraying these men and herself you feel you are walking through these dates with her. I laughed and cryed all the way through it and I could not put this book down.
I am extremely excited to read any other books that Fournier may write!