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The Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sex

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The most honest, insight, funny and compelling books I've ever read about life as a single women. Especially life as a single Jewish woman (though anyone from any type of ethnic background will be able to relate to the family issues!)

I felt like the author read my mind and was telling the story of my life. She reminds you that its okay to feel frustrated, depressed, crazy and dismayed at being singe. She also, and more importantly, talks about how to find your own strength, find yourself, have fun in the journey, let go of worrying about finding someone, be fine with trying to find someone, and be truthful about how you feel while trying to figure out life in your 30s.

And not only was the book insightful but it made me laugh out loud. I find it's rare to have a book make you do that. She is a gifted writer, with an ability to thread the story together in a way that will keep you engaged from start to finish. I hope she keeps writing books like this--amazing, strong, funny, smart women like so many of us are, need more books like this!

This book kept me entertained for an hour or two while waiting for a plane, so I can't complain. It's humorous and doesn't pretend to arrive at any great human truths. To be frank, I had hoped for something a little more titillating and insightful about such subjects as internet dating, dating clubs, etc -- about which at my advanced age and long-married status I know nothing but have some curiosity. The author spends a bit too much time talking about her cute and so eccentric family to suit me. This, if I may venture an opinion, raises a warning flag for men, just as a man who talks too much about his mother does for women. After reading the book it's still a mystery to me why the author went 1,000 plus days without sex.

Smallchief

This book fell in my hands at the right time (after finding out three of my best friends became engaged within a week of each other). Like most of my friends, I have tried online, bars, religious groups, volunteer groups, and sometimes have just given up looking for that "Mr. Right"! This book has been passed from friend to friend. We know it's possible to be fabulous and single and it is great to laugh along with others who have the same struggles. Awesomely funny, well written, and intelligent book!

As a lifelong single, I have been voraciously reading the best books I could find on being single - and discrimination against singles, including the Assumptions that everyone must be dying of loneliness and jonesing to get married.

The best ones I've read so far are Bella DePaulo's "Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After" and E. Kay Trimberger's "The New Single Woman."

I started this book with anticipation, and stopped reading it after chapter 4. I had to force myself to slog through that chapter out of curiosity, about what she would do with the poor cop who didn't feel any desire to get married. Oh, noes!

He just plain didn't share the author's matrimania -- Bella DePaulo's word for all prejudice favoring marrieds, and, of course, craziness and mania for marriage.

The two of them were having a great time. Why not just keep having a great time? But no, she had to ask the poor guy about "Our Future". She cried in front of him -- after a confrontation she initiated and -- get this -- thought HE handled that shamefully! She said she began to see that his antimarriage shtick wasn't a shtick. Gee, ya think? I saw not the merest shred of evidence that he was anything but straightforward and honest. AND fun to be with.

The poor dude said, "Geez, man, why do you always want to know where the relationship is going? Can't you just enjoy the ride?" I've never liked someone I (otherwise or formerly) liked and enjoyed pressuring me with the clear message that simply enjoying being with them is unacceptable. It sounded like a fun ride to me. I'm on his side.

No wonder some men don't want to marry women. And I have a degree in women's studies! Nowhere does feminism have anything to do with defending stupid behavior. (If a woman is penalized more than a man for being equally stupid, now that's bigotry. Or pregnancy and childbirth. An immediate two points in favor of the child-free life.)

Although we would all like to meet people sharing our age group and values, she was disgustingly unkind and nasty about the people sharing the singles' table with her at the wedding. Someone's elderly grandfather and someone's little girl may not be your match, but ---- if she is so horrible at relating to people that she avoids and denigrates the elders and un-bratty children at the table with her, then only a stupid, crazy, or mean, angry, nasty man would want to marry this vicious broad.

I did not give it a 1-star rating for two reasons. There was some good wit, though even that couldn't help me stomach all the misconceptions about being single and the shining example of how to ruin a good relationship. And most 1-star reviewers are so irrational, irrelevant, illiterate and hate-filled, that their rambling rants are not worth reading. "1-star" might as well stand for their intelligence rating. Read a few and make the evaluation for yourself.

Then go read some GOOD singles books.

And the absolute very best thing about (partially) reading this book? What I had read just before it.

The day before picking it up, I had just finished reading a singles author who encouraged people to get out there and be with people. he offered a few ideas and suggestions.

He encouraged readers: if you're ever at a wedding, ask to be seated at the singles' table.

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time and one I will surely read again. I'm recently divorced and found so much to relate to and laugh about--even though I'm coming at it from the opposite side of the coin. Suzanne has a very funny and friendly writing style--a must read for any girl who wants a good laugh!

Being single, jewish, and in my thirties, dealing with the pressure of society and family, Suzanne's book is a voice for us all. I read it so fast, eating up her creative humor, soulfulness, honesty, openess, and her adventurous spirit. Living in a world that looks down on single women in their thirties as a failure, depite all the other goods in the world one contributes, Suzanne gave me hope. I highly recommend this book for any strong single woman who secretly needs a morale boost, hope for her future, and a laugh out load read. This is something you will relate to, and thank Suzanne for writing.

This autobiographical debut by Ms. Schlosberg is the hilarious account of her 1001 days without sex. ANY woman who has ever been single will relate to Suzanne's dilemnas- family members wondering why she's not married as she's over 30, attending weddings solo when everyone else seems to have a signficant other, etc. She literally travels all over the globe looking for the man who she will deem worthy of breaking her sex-less streak. She volunteers, uses match.com, moves to a new city and travels constantly in her pursuit. Perhaps the most refreshing thing about this book is that Suzanne is smart and confident and knows all along that a man will not make her 'complete' She's just like any other single gal out there. Holding out for someone special. You will root for her, sympathize with her and laugh at her misadventures all the way to the last page. Don't miss The Curse of the Singles Table- it's fantastic fun.

I LOVED THIS BOOK. LOVED IT..............I actually have not yet finished it because I am trying to savor it for just a few more days. I feel like I lived her life. I have jdated, speeddated, hurry-dated, gone from the dinner date to the 15 minute coffee date (okay, it is now 5 minutes, even 15 can be an eternity) and am still on the hunt....
This book will make you laugh and very much identify with the author. I highly recommend it if you are single.......or have ever been single!!!

This book caught my eye -- on my way to buy my niece a birthday present -- and after I read the first page, I had to buy it. I don't know when I've read a funnier book. Even though it's been three years since I was on the "singles market," I still remember everything, of course, and Suzanne captures the torture of it all, mining the humor every step of the way. Bravo! I can't wait to read what she does next.

I bought "Singles Table" on the advice of a friend.... While going through a really bad break up of a long term relationship he seemed to think that I would relate to this book... and Ohhh was he ever right!!... This is the book that brought me back from the brink of being one of the bitter "I hate men" ladies - to actually having hope that it's not over... That it won't be... and that there are still actually 'good guys' out there...I just know that if Suzanne can go through this long journey and find her man... mine can't be far behind!!..WONDERFUL book....be ready to laugh so hard you snort and try not drinking while reading!!.... lol... For anyone who has ever just 'had enough'...Buy this book ASAP!!!