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The book is well written in an honest, witty and entertaining manner. Really speaks to the "L.A. Man" syndrome, too many beautiful and smart women that get caught occasionally dating down! Can't wait for Kelton's sequel with the possibility of the smart, modern, sexy, attractive woman meets the same in a man...

entertaining quick read about a raw eye opening insight into dating

Don't Use my Sweater as a Towel is a ribald romp through the dating scene (ala L.A.), uncommitted relationships (and wanting to stay that way), pheromones (the kind that turn you on... and off), and the myriad of self-help relationship books that your local bookstore stocks for the unrequited.

In a long past (and when unmarried) time, the book's world too was mine. And in retrospect it is clear to me now that I, like many of the book's male subjects, was a jerk. This was not wholly a unilateral state of being. But my jerkiness was perhaps more grand, less kind, and certainly more regrettable than my partner's.

Kelton's book confirms my worst fears of the time. And that big fear was this: While I tried to appear cool and intelligent - as pathetic a "come on" as any - the drunk, the urban cowboy, the guy with sandals that looks like Jesus, the guy with the pimped-out car, and the guy who will eventually wipe his spermatozoa on his lover's sweater (hence the book's title), would get the attractive woman to his hotel room and have screaming sex while I would be left to sip my gin (hold the Vermouth please) alone in the lobby.

In this memoir, there are no stories of angry lovers ripping the still beating and bloody heart from their partner's chest, no revenge car sabotage, and no spirals into depression because of lost love and lost worlds. There is though a brutally honest account of a woman's search for a partner. A search for someone to love. And the desire to have love returned.

I really enjoyed this book. Jennifer Kelton provides an honest and fun perspective on the challenges of dating.

An unabashed, unashamed, uncensored, unapologetic look inside a woman's mind and psyche. One part Looking for Mr. Goodbar, one part An Unquiet Mind, one-hundred-percent revealing (if for nothing other than for the difference between what a woman and a man mean by the word, "friend").

This book is for anyone who is dating, male or female. Jennifer Kelton tells it like it is, and does not sugar coat it at all! She brings the reader through her own personal dating experiences... Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel, is a great beach read for this summer

Loved this book. It is exactly what women need to hear about dating today. I really enjoyed Kelton's style. I recommend it!

Part memoir, part amateur experiment, Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel is an absolutely uncensored, at times sexually graphic memoir of author Jennifer Kelton's dating and sex life, and her surprisingly structured experiments to discern precisely how much value and accuracy lies in the myriad of dating self-help books and advice available today. Kelton was unable to bear children for medical reasons, and therefore was not under pressure from a biological clock, yet she was searching for the right man to share her life with - most of Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel recounts the men that she dated, all of whom eventually proved unsuitable for a long-term relationship with her, but many of whom remained good friends after the sex ended. Of especial interest are the chapters in which Kelton reflects on dating advice books, and gathered information from her male friends as to whether women really shouldn't call a man back (the most common answer: if the woman never calls, the man may take it as a sign that she isn't interested), or how many dates there should be before sex (most agreed that it depended on what the people in the relationship felt was right), and similar questions. She also explored the questionable usefulness of bottled human phermones, and offers enlightening ponderings on the latest scientific findings about mating behaviors in the animal kingdom. Perhaps the most valuable advice in Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel is the importance of having confidence in oneself and respect for others; the author's open story of her dating life certainly proves to be an invaluable and enriching experience.