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Title: Legs Talk: A Modern Girl’s Dating Tale
Author(s): D.E. Boone
Genre: Fiction- Humor
Tags: dating, humor, legs, relationships, break up, humor, women, photography, black and white
Finished: February 22, 2009
Rating: 3 Stars

Legs Talk: A Modern Girl’s Dating Tale by D.E. Boone is a small book, about 112 pages with full page black and white photographs. It takes the reader through the story of a woman in a relationship with a man who has a special interest in her legs and her legs only. It begins as most of these type stories do: girl meets boy, boy comes on very strong, girl consents, boy turns out to be a big jerk, girl walks away, girl goes back, boy is still a jerk, the end.

The book is very charming. It is a short read, though; I read it in about 10 minutes. Each turn of a page brings a blank page with writing and a black and white photograph featuring below the waist leg shots. There are a lot of shoes and stockings, every now and then sprinkled with casual jeans and boots. The point isn’t to show the faces of the two characters, only their legs. Legs are the focus, after all! If you could see the rest of the body, it would distract from the imagery of the legs. Since legs are the topic, they should be thrust into the photographic spotlight.

Legs Talk takes a humorous look at dating. It’s a great book for anyone who has ever broken up, or has gone back to the same man over and over again. True to the nature of relationships, the book is not cut and dry about how they do or don’t work out. Within the short phrases and sentiment, you can see how confused the woman is about the relationship she is presently in with her leg fetishist boyfriend. She gives in to him against her better judgment, makes concessions to the man, and wavers in her decision to quit seeing him.

I especially like the small piece of their post breakup phone conversation when the women replies to a “have you missed me’ type question with, “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?” That small bit of wit was enough to make the book. The words are short and simple, but effective.

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