The Rules are stupid. It's just that blunt. I wish I could recommend this book, but unfortunately, we're in the wrong decade. A book about this would have gone over very well in the 50s, but 50 years later, it's not working. This book came out in the mid-1990s, and it didn't work then, either.

The thing about "The Rules" is that I don't disagree with many of the rules, but it shouldn't be something that you force upon yourself. Rules like, "Don't date a married man" are elementary rules of dating. If you, as the reader, must be told that, you've already got a problem. Rules are like crash dieting, if it's not a lifestyle, then you're just going to end up back where you started. So, if you somehow manage to get a man using these rules, then you'll lose him because you can't force yourself to be someone you're not.

It's a cute effort, but it's very shallow, and only effective for laughs.