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Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
When I was single and twenty-one years old I wrote a book called I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship (Paperback)
This is a must for any teenager and parent in today's world.A refreshing back-to -values book showing that there is an alternative to the sex crazed world
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Convoluted, repetitive and without a thesis,
By Michael Francisco (Los Alamos, NM USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: BOY MEETS GIRL (Paperback)
The one word summary of this book is convoluted. It reads like several rephrased chapters from the first book with some added confusing material. Apparently Joshua Harris has molded courtship to fit his experience. Harris equivocates on the term "courtship" using it to mean dating with a purpose at one point, thinking seriously about marriage at another, and a rule dominated methodology in the remainder of the book. The analogies used in the book are poorly chosen, incorrect at times and a step beyond corny. Joshua Harris refers to his former relationship as having "unraveled like a cheep sweater" and also provides a painfully poor dialogue of "courtship cops." In the beginning Harris devotes an entire chapter to saying that its not about "courtship and dating" then he simply waters down courtship to the point where is it nothing but dating with a little bit of a Christian twist. The many examples imply that courtship is the correct Christian way when early in the book Harris stated otherwise. Overall the book is a quick read because of a writing style that leaves something to be desired. The content of "Boy meets Girl", aside from the poor writing, is wrought with error and filled with fluff. Joshua Harris writes this book in a sappy style that makes one think that Harris believes himself to be the first to ever fall in love. The advice in the book about romance is shallow and dangerous. Harris encourages romantic advances in courtship based on personal "wisdom", advice that will cause heartbreak, especially since according to Harris himself courtships break apart. Was not the point of courtship to avoid broken hearts? "Boy meets Girl" has more "principles" in it than Mosses laid out in the Pentateuch. Parts of the Biblical exegesis are extremely flawed (i.e. when Harris claims that children must obey their parents, but adults must only honor them). With this flawed and arbitrary interpretation Harris expounds the view that you can get married outside of your parents approval since you are adults and must only honor them. It is doubtful that Douglas Wilson, whom is quoted later, would endorse such a flawed view. Details about Joshua and Shannon's honeymoon might have been romantic and filled pages, but they should have been left out. The book may have appeal to younger teens because of the cute romantic vignettes but none of this gives healthy insight to a Godly relationship. Grade school analogies and a haphazard composition without a thesis is hardy a well-written book. Just because Joshua Harris wrote "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" does not mean this book is a good book. Very little of this work is actually developed in depth. The first few chapters speak much about "wisdom", a concept that is never laid out clearly, never given scriptural backing, ambiguous at best, and then abandoned in the rest of the book. Furthermore using personal wisdom to guard one's relationship is a very dangerous idea. I would strongly recommend against purchasing or reading "Boy meets Girl." This book boarders on being a Christian romance novel that could damage younger readers by covering subjects in too great of detail and by dolling out bad advice on romance. The principles of the book are shallow and fluffy, leaving too much room for the reader to twist the intent. Aside from shallow writing and cheep analogies this book has seriously troubling flaws which overshadow what good is hidden between the covers. If you are interested in this subject there are other books which are written with more clarity, Biblical backing and which also avoid such dangerous sap.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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You thought "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" was bad enough!!,
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This review is from: BOY MEETS GIRL (Paperback)
This book is worse. The book is written in the defense mechanism mode to defend his last book which unfortunately in many churches took one man's ideology and turned it into the legalistic "only way" theology of all. This may have worked for the harrises but it is not the "official Christian perspective" of dating for everyone.
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