Dating Game

by Danielle Steel

Book Overview

In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around--and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739432583
• ISBN13: 9780739432587
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dating game by Danielle Steel

I love reading Danielle Steel books. She always has. A great story

Bravo! One of Danielle Steel's Best.

This is by far my favorite of Danielle Steel's novels. The character development is exquisite. Totally believable. She takes her time telling the story in this unabridged edition, and if you are listening to this story for the first time, this is the version I would highly recommend. I love the way the main character thinks things through, logically and thoroughly. Even as a fictitious character, she serves as an inspiration to women. I still think she should have clocked the "other woman" over the head with the punch bowl at her daughter's wedding, but she's so likable I can forgive her diplomacy. If you are a fan of Ms. Steel, you will love this book.

I think she's back on track

After a few novels that just weren't up to par, Danielle Steel seems to have found her inspiration again. Dating Game is about Paris Armstrong whose husband comes home one day and tells her he wants a divorce, he's in love with another woman & would rather be with her than his wife of 24 years. Now Paris is forced to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and try & make a new life for herself. The first question is: does she want to? The second: how does she do that? Third: Will she ever want to be with another man again, be able to trust him?I put myself in Paris's shoes and it was heart-wrenching, what this woman went through. We've probably all been there (being left), so it's kind of neat to read about someone & how they deal with their struggle. I enjoyed not only the story, but the characters. Danielle really did a good job with this book, she makes you care about the characters & what will happen to them, as she does with most of her books. The best aspect about this book though were all of the funny dates Paris goes on. It's too funny!If you're looking for something newer of Steel's to read, try this book or Answered Prayers & Safe Harbour- they all are examples that she can still write moving love stories.

Excellent, and I'd know.

After all, I am the Danielle Steel expert. I've read pretty much everything she's done. And, I'm hardly shy when it comes to admitting she's got some pretty bad stuff out there."Dating Game" is not one of them. The sense of movement, action, and adventure is very prevalent here, as divorcee, Paris Armstrong, endures being dumped by her long-time husband, moving cross-country, forging a new life, enduring several typical flaky "California" type men as dates (very realistic), and through it all, keeping her sense of humor.This has got to be the funniest Danielle Steel I have read in a long time. What else is new here? A gay subplot. Yes, you heard correctly. I can't remember a Danielle Steel novel ever featuring gay characters. All right, there was a little blurb, right at the end of "The Wedding" about lesbianism---but not the somewhat in-depth treatment gays and AIDs gets here in "Dating Game." Danielle Steel hasn't had San Francisco as a setting for one of her novels in a while. Well, at least not since 1999's awful "Irresistible Forces." Danielle Steel actually lives in the town, so if there's anyone who knows San Francisco, and can write with authority on the town and it's wacky eligible bachelors, it's Danielle Steel."Dating Game" is quite a page-turner and quite a happy novel as you follow along with Paris and her San Francisco dating adventures. It's fun to try to guess which parts of this novel are autobiographical, as Danielle Steel has talked about her own return into the San Francisco dating world, and how she based this book on her own personal adventures.It's incredible that after all these years Steel can still turn out fresh and invigorating ideas when she wants to. I place "Dating Game" with my other recent Danielle Steel favorites: "The Wedding" and "Lone Eagle." I also, somewhat enjoyed "Sunset In St. Tropez" and "Answered Prayers."I look forward to reading Danielle Steel's "Johnny Angel" next, as I see this author has still has some talent in her yet!

LOVED IT!!

I am a true romantic so I love almost all of Danielle Steel's books and this was no exception. It had wonderful characters, heartbreak, loss, humor love and compassion. It also showed how getting back into the dating game is really a game, and that love can come when you least expect it. As I said in my title, LOVED IT!!

A BRAVURA READING

With numerous stage, film and television roles to his credit Sam Freed gives a bravura reading of Danielle Steel's 57th novel. What would it be like to return to the singles' scene after 24 years of marriage? Listeners will discover just how it might be with "Dating Game." Being tossed aside for a younger model is a story probably as old as men and women. Nonetheless, it was a completely new and an excruciatingly painful scenario for Paris Armstrong. She had two grown children, a satisfying life, a lovely Connecticut home, and a contented husband - or so she thought until he bluntly asked for a divorce. She ached, she wept; she was inconsolable. Nevertheless, she knew she must go on. As might be expected friends rallied round bringing with them any number of impossible suitors. None could hold a candle to Peter, the former husband whom she still loved. Deciding that distance might assuage her heartbreak Paris moved West - all the way to San Francisco. There were men there, too; all of them wrong for her. And, of all things, her daughter would soon marry a man her age. Yet, as in many Steel novels there are lessons to be learned in disappointment and joy to be found in the most unexpected places. A veteran yarn spinner, Steel weaves another trip on the rocky roads of romance that her fans will relish. - Gail Cooke