Lori B. (pdocgirl) reviewed I Know You're Out There : Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals on + 211 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Ugh. I kept waiting for the book to develop a plot. The characters are vacuous, hollow, without substance and the narrator is self-centered and superficial. Maybe I'm just a geneation too old for this kind of narcissistic writing, but I would have flunked it as a piece of creative writing back when I taught English. No stars from me.
Heather C. (heatherbell) - , reviewed I Know You're Out There : Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I expected more personal ads and less about the writer's personal life. It was an okay book but not one that I'd read again.
Kathleen A. reviewed I Know You're Out There : Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals on + 41 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I thought this book was okay. I think I was expecting a little bit more about the personal ads and less about the authors life. It was an interesting perspective on his role at the newspaper and the changes as newspapers are being bought out and the focus on making money more than journalism
Merrill F. (electricbluebird) reviewed I Know You're Out There : Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The book jumps around too much to too many topics - very unfocused. The author should have stuck to the personal ads and saved his personal life stuff for memoir. I would not recommend.
